IEEE Honors Zenith Trio for Development of Digital High-Definition TV in North America10 January 2006
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9 -- Three of the engineers who developed the digital television transmission system that forms the technological heart of high-definition TV, now in widespread use in the United States, have been named recipients of the 2006 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award. Sponsored by Sony Corporation, the award will be presented at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics in Las Vegas on January 10.
Working together with a team of Zenith research engineers, Wayne Bretl, Richard Citta and Wayne Luplow created the digital high-definition technology now mandated by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to replace the nation's 65-year-old analog system. The technology they innovated is now in use at virtually every television station in the United States, sending robust transmissions with reduced interference and allowing the broadcast industry to tap previously unusable VHF and UHF TV broadcast channels.
As the transition from analog to digital TV in the U.S. nears completion in 2007, all new TV sets sold in this country will feature Zenith's VSB (Vestigial SideBand) demodulation technology, which takes a digital broadcast signal and turns it into the bit stream ultimately seen as a broadcast. This technology also frees up analog bandwidth for use in U.S. homeland security and public safety.
An IEEE Senior Member, Wayne Bretl is research and development manager at Lincolnshire, Illinois-based Zenith, which is now the U.S. research division of LG Electronics. He is a member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's administrative committee, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Audio Engineering Society and the Society for Information Display.
An IEEE Fellow, Wayne Luplow is a vice president at Zenith Electronics Corporation. He is the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and is a member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's administrative committee. Luplow is a member of the Boards of Directors of both the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and its sister organization, the ATSC Forum and is a charter member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers.
An IEEE Member, Richard Citta is now chief scientist at Micronas Semiconductor Inc. in Palatine, Illinois. Formerly of the Electronic Systems R&D laboratory at Zenith, he is the only two-time recipient of Zenith's highest technical honor, the Robert Adler Technical Excellence Award. Citta also is a member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers.
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Source: prnewswire
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