Sparkring Computer is a software company which will continue working on introduce multimedia, internet, digital signal processing and pattern recogntion technologies into comsumer electronic devices and embedded systems. In order to demostrate the new technologies, new novel products will be designed. With new artistic industrial designs, our products will bring high-quality entertaining and artistic experiences to customers.
Sparkring Computer was found in March 2007 at Taipei, Taiwan. Currently there are 8 staffs including 2 Ph.D. and 5 masters (1 Ph.D. candidate). The initial captial is half a million NT dollars. In October 2007, the captial is creased to 7.5 million NT dollars. Major products are the software libraries and applications on NXP's Trimedia platform, especially NXP 1500, 1700, 0192 and 9520 series.
The first digital signage project on NXP 1500/1700 has been completed in October 2007. Currently a new product, Smart Digital Photo Frame, is available. Cooperated with National Taiwan University and iDi System, many new technologies and brand new hardware ID design are applied on this product series. The first prototype of Smart Digital Photo Frame will be shown on CES 2008.
A cooperating plan between Sparkring Computer and National Taiwan University has been started in Novemeber 2007. By working with many academic organiztions, we introduce many novel technologies into our software component bank.
We have more than 10 year experiences on multimedia, Internet and embedded systems. Since year 2000, our major engineering people started working on advanced DSP (Digital Signal Processor) system, such as Trimedia. Integration between severl CPUs, such as NS SC-1100, AMD, and Intel 425, have been done successfully. Currently standalone Trimedia solution becomes our major products.
Besides Trimedia, other platforms, such as Freescale MX-31, NXP's NXP-8950, Sigma Design's 8621, TI's 6437, Intel's IXP-425 and Pentium platforms are also supported.
Other than the expertises on system integration, by working on IP-TV systems, such as OKI/NTT's MPEG4 VOD and China Telecom's MOD system based on Alcatel's OMP and OVS, we accumlated rich experiences on large scale IP-TV deployment. It helps us to integrate our products into other IP-TV systems.
Recently we start working with both National Taiwan University and National Chung-Cheng University. Many advanced digital signal processing and pattern recogition techniques have been introduced. Until now, face recognation and voice command have been developed and integrated into our Smart DPF product series.
By working with several artists in Taiwan, we start designing new products with novel industrial design to build high-quality products both in technology and art design.