H.264专利问题整理

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# 1、H.264/AVC 是ITU与ISO联合制定的视频编码标准 #

国际标准不代表免费

# 2、H.264的版权由美国MPEG-LA公式专门负责 #

收费说明：

[http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Agreement.aspx][http_www.mpegla.com_main_programs_AVC_Pages_Agreement.aspx]

收费标准：

[http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf][http_www.mpegla.com_main_programs_avc_Documents_avcweb.pdf]

[http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC\_TermsSummary.pdf][http_www.mpegla.com_main_programs_avc_Documents_AVC_TermsSummary.pdf]

## 分成2大部分：硬件与软件 ##

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For (a) (1) branded encoder and decoder products sold both to End Users and on an OEM basis for incorporation into personal computers but not part of a personal computer perating system (a decoder, encoder, or product consisting of one decoder and one encoder = “unit”), royalties (beginning January 1, 2005) per Legal Entity are 0 - 100,000 units per year = no royalty (this threshold is available to one Legal Entity in an affiliated group); US $0.20 per unit after first 100,000 units each year; above 5 million units per year, royalty = US $0.10 per unit. The maximum annual royalty (“cap”) for an Enterprise (commonly controlled Legal Entities) is $3.5 million per year 2005-2006, $4.25 million per year 2007-08, $5 million per year 2009-10, and $6.5 million per year in 2011-15.

## 品牌的编解码产品： ##

unit指单个decoder、单个encoder 或者包含一个decoder和一个encoder的产品

## 对于软件服务提供商，收费标准是： ##

*  100,000 or fewer subscribers = no royalty
 *  100,001 to 250,000 subscribers = $25,000
 *  250,001 to 500,000 subscribers = $50,000
 *  500,001 to 1,000,000 subscribers = $75,000
 *  greater than 1,000,000 subscribers = $100,000
    
     H.264 patents: how much do they really cost?
    
    [http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost/2122][http_www.zdnet.com_blog_bott_h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost_2122]
 *   
    
    # 专利池中专利分布： #
    
    [http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost/2122][http_www.zdnet.com_blog_bott_h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost_2122]
    
    ## 拥有专利的26家企业： ##
    
    •Panasonic Corporation (377)  
    •LG Electronics Inc. (198)  
    •Toshiba Corporation (137)  
    •Fraunhofer‐Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (82)  
    •Microsoft Corporation (65)  
    •Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (57)  
    •Sharp Corporation (54)  
    •Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (42)  
    •Sony Corporation (29)  
    •Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (18)  
    •Fujitsu Limited (16)  
    •The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (9)  
    •NTT DOCOMO, INC. (9)  
    •Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (7)  
    •France Télécom, société anonyme (7)  
    •Robert Bosch GmbH (5)  
    •Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (4)  
    •Scientific‐Atlanta Vancouver Company† (4)  
    •Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (3)  
    •Hitachi, Ltd (2)  
    •Victor Company of Japan, Limited (2)  
    •DAEWOO Electronics Corporation (2)  
    •Siemens AG (2)  
    •Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (2)  
    •Apple Inc. (1)  
    •Sedna Patent Services, LLC (1)  
    
    
    ## 拥有专利的44个国家 ##
    
    **Countries with more than 100 patents**
    
     *  JP (226), US (169), KR (130)
    
    **Countries with 51-100 patents**
    
     *  CN (54), GB (51)
    
    **Countries with 21-50 patents**
    
     *  DE (44), FR (44), IT (38), NL (34), ES (26), MX (23)
    
    **Countries with 11-20 patents**
    
     *  AU (20), HK (19), SE (19), FI (16), CA (16), ID (16), RU (15), TW (14), DK (14), AT (14), HU (12), BE (12), CZ (11), TR (11)

[http_www.mpegla.com_main_programs_AVC_Pages_Agreement.aspx]: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Agreement.aspx
[http_www.mpegla.com_main_programs_avc_Documents_avcweb.pdf]: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf
[http_www.mpegla.com_main_programs_avc_Documents_AVC_TermsSummary.pdf]: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf
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[http_www.zdnet.com_blog_bott_h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost_2122]: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost/2122