OREANDA-NEWS. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, with President and CEO Hiroo Unoura, hereinafter “NTT”) has developed a high-precision moving picture search technology that can flawlessly identify the precise frames used in an edited video from a large collection of video data. This new technology can reduce manual visual comparisons in the moving picture production workflow and thus dramatically improve the efficiency of cinema and television production process.

NTT started conducting field tests of this technology in July 2013 in collaboration with PIX SYSTEM, LLC (hereinafter “PIX”)1 , whose clients include major Hollywood movie studios. The field tests evaluated the speed and accuracy with which this technology could find edited sequences from daily movie footage to assess its practicality within practical production workflows. NTT will continue to conduct field tests and develop technology for making moving picture production workflows more efficient.

NTT will continue to improve search technology with support for an increasing variety of video editing and processing techniques while continuing to add functionality to collaborative remote production pipelines using communication networks.

The NTT Data Corporation (headquartered in Koto-ku, Tokyo, with president and CEO Toshio Iwamoto) is planning to conduct trials for businesses using this technology.