Desktop and Mobile Devices:

A "Device Capability" model

is used by AMN to determine

whether a user is operating

a desktop OS, mobile device,

or other web appliance.

Beyond hardware recognition, content is determined based upon available client code.  The content delivered may be text-only, text with graphics, text with graphics and audio, or full-blown multimedia including HD video.

A codec-push is subsequent to the client code gestalt which helps to maximize performance and quality in terms of media elements.

There are current 200+ platforms and browsers supported under the current AMN device capability framework that includes secure packet protocols, DRM and messaging.

Our Portfolio:

AMN's team has worked on many various types of projects for commercial, consumer and government clients.  Work credits include complicated programming, interfacing, design, GUI, research, integration, QA, direction and production:

HOUSE OF PAIN

Cypress Hill/D.J. Muggs

38 Fresh Recordings

1992

Transitioning a rap music album to digital format presented a challenge.  The album project was one of the first digital master projects for this music genre.  Porting the audio mix from 24-track analog (Otari reel-to-reel) to PCM (pulse-coded modulation) was time-consuming, but ultimately led this group to Billboard's Top 5 Popular Hits.

A combination of optical digital interfacing in conjunction with Apple-based sound tools delivered a final edit that was used to drive CD/album duplication for popular airplay and high-volume record sales.

MEDICINES: The Inside Story

Carter Presidential Foundation

GlaxoWellcome/Image

1996 - present

A $1 million project dedicated to preserving the history of medicines.  Two formats of the project were created: 1) Physical Museum "Walk-thru"; 2) Virtual Museum "Walk-thru".

The physical museum work consisted of designing and programming multimedia applications that perform inter-onnectivity with hosted "nodes".

The virtual museum work consisted of designing and programming 3D animations of the physical museum floor layout, and the integration of the hosted "nodes" kiosks delivered on CD and web.

Schalow Mfg., Co., Inc.

Virginia Air

2004 - present

An interesting web portal that showcases conventional visual display boards for educational and commercial markets.  This web application essentially represents the "virtual" bridge between physical Dry Erase products, including Markerboards, Tackboards, and Chalkboards, with the customer, architect or engineer.

In the coming years this client will be overseeing the changes in the Dry Erase and technology markets taking necessary steps for cost-effective overlaps to enhance online offerings for the web and educational space.

DAVID BOWIE

Black Tie White Noise

Tin Machine

1992 - 1993

This project began with a surprise from a neighboring music tour drummer who happened to bump into AMN's founder.  A vareity of digital programming and engineering tools sparked an interest to have Tin Machine re-mixed and the results prompted David Bowie to arrange a session to write and record music at 38 Fresh and AMN in Los Angeles.

Audio programming and engineering with MIDI, SMPTE and Atari and Motorola-based PC controllers helped support BTWN and Bowie's wedding music.

3DO Gaffer for Director

Macromedia

Panasonic

1994

Using C-compiled drivers provided from Macromedia this port utility application was programmed to parse and compile Macromind "lingo" scripts into interpreted byte-codes for machine level support on Panasonic's 3DO gaming system.

Several "movies" were designed and ported for demo purposes of the Gaffer technology in a partner-related program with the company.

3DO systems helped pioneer compact optical based gaming systems that fueled innovations with other gaming consoles sold in today's consumer marketplace.

NetCare(r)

Lucent Technologies

Bell Labs Innovations/Carney

1996

A multimedia application written with XObjects interfaced with Quicktime videos and Macromedia tools.  The program was designed to highlight the media communications capabilites for newly developed NetCare services provided by Lucent.

The application was showcased in 1997 at the Interop show in Las Vegas, NV.  The code was later used for training distribution services by the customer.

737 Safety

U.S. Air Force (Boeing)

PerformTech

1997

This project included advanced programming in virtual reality environments.  A virtual reality (VR) model was used to accurately navigate the interiors of the 737 aircraft fuselage and cockpit.  Animation and photographs were fused to create convincing training materials used specifically by the Air Force for fire safety and other interactive educational purposes.

"Host spot" point-n-click layers allowed the user to view various angles and perspectives of the aircraft, as well as digging deeper into objects apart of the physical aircraft construction.

ARPABet Text-to-phone, or text-to-speech, (TTS) phonetics parser solution by Dale B. Schalow (AMN Corp). Written in PHP as a speech synthesis toolkit on an Apache Linux web server. Research and development is based on ARPABet and IPA Comparison of Phonemes ID pairing for text-to-speech, as conducted within Speech and Language Processing (SLP) departments at Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Colorado. Online Demo Version

iAMN (pronounced "I am") - Text-to-Speech Celebrity, Character and Personality Voices. Recorded voices are captured and engineered using speech synthesis and computational linguistic pairing. The following solutions are the newest offerings for this service: Small Vocabulary (Less than 100 words) $5k Medium Vocabulary (100 to 1000 words) $10k Large Vocabulary (Unlimited) $30k to 100k When you use our Large Vocabulary service we offer on-site recording, implementation TTS standards (VoiceXML, SML, W3C), multi-language, and "expressive" components. The solution service also supports Natural Language Processing with a variety of NLP toolkit components. Some of these include N-gram smoothing (e.g. add-one, back-off, witten-bell, etc), probabilistic parsing (breadth and depth-first models), features extraction, supervised and unsupervised grammar building, and information retrieval algorithms. Sample Celebrity Voices: Dan Rather, James Earl Jones, Ronald Reagan. Contact us for more information.

Moviebroker

Consumer Product

AMN Corp

1999 - present

Moviebroker is a stand-alone software application enabling users of the Internet to search, capture, play, store and manage media sources between desktop and mobile devices (Windows CE).  These sources consist of MPEG, MP3, WAV, AIF and Quicktime extensions and other MIME types.  The product was originally released in 1991 in conjunction with several product distribution points.  These include Compaq, Microsoft, Amazon and Handango.

Moviebroker is currently used by over 150 thousand users in the world.  It was nominated as "Video Product of the Year" in 2002 by PocketPC Magazine and its Panel of Experts.

The AMN team has worked on many various types of projects for commercial, consumer and government clients.  Work credits include complicated programming, interfacing, design, GUI, research, integration, QA, direction and production

Display Boards using Wireless Beams

The bulletin and drawing board will never be the same.  Conventional educational displays including chalkboards, markerboards and tackboards are slowly adapting to technological change.  How connectivity is used in the transformation to network Display Boards at schools, institutions, offices and even churches, is something that can be addressed using wireless such as IEEE 802.11 with preventative radio interference.  

AMN has a strong focus on UWB (ultra-wide band), JPEG, audio and video codecs, to help promote high-quality imaging, media and data capture onto flat thin HD display surfaces that are accessible and reliable.

Contact AMN for more information.

High Definition (HD)

Source Rendering for Devices

High Definition Video

h.264, MPEG-4, 3GP...

High Quality-Surround Audio

AAC, MPEG, CD-quality...

Mediabroker(tm) HD source rendering uses the latest in  media apps interfacing to generate compelling video and audio to HD-based flat panel device and desktop displays.  

View HD and mobile samples from our preview library

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HD

h.264

480p Quicktime (Ver 7)

Flash DSL High-speed

iPod Video (download)

PocketPC Video (download)

3GP Mobile (download)

MPEG-4 Mobile (J2ME, Linux)

Owner: WildlifeHD.com

MediaBroker® Distribution Services

MediaBroker® is an embedded media-to-product commerce application that provides source sharing,  commerce, management and playback of audio and video streams between mobile devices (smartphones, PDA's, AutoPC, and other Brew and J2ME equipped platforms), network/Internet, desktop, workstations, servers and  TCP/IP appliances. The application integrates its own MFS/MFSC (MediaFlow Services) transcoding model as well as industry support of DRM, MIDP 2.0, IEEE 802.11 (long-range) for media brokering and playback facilitation. The application has been covered in Electronic News and The Hollywood Reporter.  Its predecessor MovieBroker was released for Windows & WinCE November 2001 nominated as Video Product of the Year by PocketPC Magazine.

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TALKING WEB

National Institutes of Health

U.S. National Library of Medicine

2002 - present

A ubiquitous approach for automating human voice recognition and the Internet.  Applied for NIH's Medline+ Senior Health project that has been recognized and testified before Congress and President Bush White House Administration.  As of 2005, over 40 million annual users access this NIH public web resource.  

Since its release in 2003, numerous Institutes and their scientists have contributed leading medical research to the app.  Some include NIA, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Eye Institute (NEI), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

IEEE Technical Specs (2004)

Speech Technology for Web:

Since inception, AMN has

researched and developed

voice synthesis coding to

improve text-to-speech and

voice recognition and its

useage on the Web.  

In conjunction with commercial and government projects, truly humanized voices and accurate signal recognition have helped push the next thing for on-demand media.  Here are  some exmaples:

- Audio, video and RFID search and navigation on the Web

- True celebrity voices for Internet and embedded devices

- API programming without mouse and keyboard

- e-911 First Responder for telematics and the home

- Section 508 Presidential Mandate for Fed Govt (NIH &   

   IEEE published specifications)

Embedded Design:

Designing the future isn't easy.  

It's a challenge.   However,

breaking down the barriers

and following-through with

steady progress is the

primary focus of AMN's Embedded Design practice.

Prototypes are devised to pilot an appraoch for a new method or theory in the market.  A detailed research effort is deployed initially to target the ending exercise which in most cases results in a conceptual state and implementation. Beyond the initial stages for the R&D, a migration or reverse engineering model is applied to succeed the prototypes developed.

A gradual roll-out via on-going QA cycles ensures a positive and effective transition into full-blown production.

Web Services:

AMN supports Best Practice

Methods within SOA  Industry

and W3C specifications are

used to expose methods.

AJAX is used to reduce latent issues with front-end  updates.  A look ahead to Web 2.0 and ongoing rich media availability is a priority to examine and match project requirements with regards to performance and quality.

Here are some examples:

- AJAX web clients using Javascript, XML-based DOM

- WSDL and Flash

- Dashboard Widgets for Mac OS-X

- Mediabroker(tm) E-Commerce and Movie Databases linking Java servlets, PHP and other server-based coding with world-wide WS registries and directories (XMethods, MS, IBM)

SCHALOW INNOVATIONS

2002 - present

Internal systems deployment consisting of web and media support.  A variety of advanced technologies provided in this strategic partnership.

Schalow Innovations works on a number of computer and media science projects involving customers in the commercial, consumer and Federal Government sectors.

POND-N-PATIO, INC.

Pond-n-patio.com

2006

Combining simple user interface elements with elegant graphic design and flow brings this web portal to life.  The client offers high "in-demand" products and services and needed instant wireless customer communication integrated with the portal.

The program was designed with Adobe, Java and server-side tools to deliver a truly beautiful landscape on the web for this company.

Company Overview:

State-of-the-Art Media Technology, the global leader in media research and development for the enterprise.  Providing solutions in business automation, wireless, mobile devices and the Internet. Read about technology highlights:

Speakable RF for media-on-demand

Mediabroker(tm) Services NEW!

Display Boards using Wireless Media

Manual vs. Speech Input - USAF Research with UAVs Presented to Georgetown University - Linguistics 362
by Dale Schalow
Founder, AMN Corp

	Presented to:
	Georgetown Linguistics 362
	December 6, 2006
	Dale Schalow
	AMN Corp Software Consulting U.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH)

Access Music Network - Online Airplay of the Most Popular Music Hits from around the world. A simple way to access and hear the best artists, producers, publishers and writers in the music industry, wherever you have an Internet connection and web browser.

Digital music sales double to $2 billion (US) - January 17, 2007 report (AP). The AP reports from London that music-on-demand has nearly doulbed from last year (2005) adding $1 billion. AMN (Access Music Network) is still alive today, since it introduced music-on-demand to record labels, including Virgin, Sony, BMG, Warner Brothers, as well as CATV, telco and cellular operators in 1992.

FreeQT by AMN Corp. (c) Copyright 2007 AMN Corp. An application that converts Apple and Windows media formats (ipaq, ipod, iphone, mpeg, etc) for desktop, mobile and TV set-top devices. Features ======== + Media management, playback using QT control + Open Music and Video files locally and from URL + Edit Media with Cut, Copy, Paste and Undo + Save from and to several media formats + Full Quicktime 7.0 (including HD 720p/1080p) support + Screen resizing including Full-screen viewing + Provides information properties on media sources including format, length, position, etc. Minimum System Requirements ====================== Pentium processor PC or compatible Minimum 128MB of RAM Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Vista Apple Quicktime 7.0 or higher Optional Device Requirements: PocketPC, iPaq PDA (ARM, SSH) running Windows CE or higher Apple iPod, iTunes, iPhone, etc.