Dear Sir, I found an article NVIDIA Jetson Nano 搭載の H.264/H.265 ハードウェアエンコーダのライセンスについて | by V | Medium . it was said that the hardware encoder on the nano requires an additional license for H.264/H.265. for business uses. I am a little bit confused. so I want to double check with you.
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Hi,
Please check
On September 29, 2014, MPEG LA announced their HEVC license which covers the essential patents from 23 companies. The first 100,000 "devices" (which includes software implementations) are royalty free, and after that the fee is $0.20 per device up to an annual cap of $25 million. This is significantly more expensive than the fees on AVC, which were $0.10 per device, with the same 100,000 waiver, and an annual cap of $6.5 million. MPEG LA does not charge any fee on the content itself, some When th...
It is not specific to Jetson platforms. We have the hardware codec in device but the organizations owns the patents. Once you use the device in business, you would need to pay the fee per device to the organization.
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Vp8/vp9 can be used if you want to avoid software patents. Also, not all parts of the world recognise software patents. As always, ask for legal advice from an attorney.
The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which subject matter in these fields is patentable under the Convention on the Grant of European Patents of October 5, 1973. The subject also includes the question of whether European patents granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) in these fields (sometimes called "software patents") are regarded as valid by national courts.
Under the EPC, and in...
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Thanks for your suggetion :)