• Founded in May, 1999.
  
• Licenses Intellectual properties cores for integrated circuits.
  
• The MetaVideo team has over 100 years of video design experience.
  
• Outstanding picture quality proven in professional home theatre market (2D and 3D video processing).
  
• Proven Technology implemented in FPGA and/or Custom ASICs.
  
• Very small gate counts enable cost-effective silicon.
  
• Multiple IP cores+customization enables optimization for Customers' ICs

Key Executive Biographies

Dr. Jack Guedj, Chairman
Dr. Guedj has 20 years of experience in the digital media, consumer and wired/wireless broadband markets. He was most recently President of Tvia Inc., a manufacturer of integrated circuits and software for the residential broadband and digital TV markets. Dr. Guedj took Tvia public in Aug 2000; raising over $70M that year in a private round and a 5x oversubscribed IPO. At Tvia, Dr. Guedj grew quarterly sales by 20X from March 99 to Sept 00, driven by design wins at customers such as Sony, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, GI/Motorola and Hughes Network Systems. Dr. Guedj was responsible for over 400 employees at the US Headquarter and China R&D Center. Prior to Tvia, Dr. Guedj was President of HTMC, a consulting firm specializing in advising start up companies. Prior to this, Dr. Guedj was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Faroudja Inc., a manufacturer of video image enhancement products for the television and broadcast markets, which was acquired by Genesis Microchip. Dr. Guedj also held the position of Director of the Residential Broadband/Digital Media Strategic Market Segment at National Semiconductor. Dr. Guedj holds a doctorate cycle degree in EE and an MBA from UCLA.

Dr. Norman Noble, President and CTO
Dr. Noble has over twenty years experience in areas related to integrated circuits, display devices, machine vision and video processing. Prior to joining MetaVideo, Dr. Noble co-founded QD Technology in 1991 where he spearheaded the development of digital video processing technology. Prior to QD, Dr. Noble worked for Boeing and, in association with the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, developed a machine vision robot to measure tubing both for guidance and as a source of metrological data. At the time the project was considered by MIT to be the most advanced integration of machine vision, robotics, and manufacturing process ever achieved. Earlier Dr. Noble worked as Director of Research and Development for Technical Arts Corp., one of the early developers of machine vision systems; where he developed machine vision tools for use in the manufacture of the Stealth Bomber. Prior to Technical Arts, Dr. Noble worked at SOCS Research, developing optical data storage systems, and at Source Technology on a flat CRT display.
Mr. Noble holds Master and PhD degrees in Mathematics, and a JD degree in Law.

Dr. Noble Dr. Noble has published a number of papers and holds one patent: "High Density Storage of Information on a Compact Disc", U. S. Patent 4,736,258 (1988). He also held a patent: "Digital Y - C Separator", Patent Application Number 07922540.

Bradley Nelson, Manager, Applications Engineering
Mr. Nelson has 30 years of experience in various aspects of computer, video processing, display and system design engineering. Prior to MetaVideo, Mr. Nelson was in charge of production of video processing systems and home theater products at QD Technology. Prior to QD, Mr. Nelson co-founded and developed a scanning laser video projector at Visulux, which was installed at Strategic Air Command Centers. Earlier, Mr. Nelson managed VideoSound; a company, which developed and marketed, computerized video special effects equipment to the movie industry. Prior to this, he spent five years at Ampex Corporation, a leading manufacturer of video and graphics equipment developing computer and video graphics systems. Mr. Nelson holds a degree in Aerospace Technology.

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