Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards
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The Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards, or Technology and Engineering Emmys, are one of two sets of Emmy Awards that are presented for outstanding achievement in engineering development in the television industry. The Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), while the separate Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards are given by its sister organization, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS).
A Technology and Engineering Emmy can be presented to an individual, a company, or to a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies which either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected the transmission, recording, or reception of television. The award is determined by a special panel composed of highly qualified, experienced engineers in the television industry.
2024 Awards
The 76th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards were as follows.
Pioneering Standardization of VOD Asset Metadata Distribution Specifications
CableLabs
360 Degree Consumer Video Capture, Editing and Presentation Technologies
GoPro
Insta360
Adobe
Apple
ByteDance
Specification for AV1
Alliance for Open Media
SMPTE ST 2067 — Standardization of Interoperable Master Format (IMF)
SMPTE/IMF USER GROUP
Advanced Media Workflow Association
Digital Cinema Initiatives
USC-ETC
Pioneering Mastering HDR Display
Dolby Labs
AI Image/Video Enhancement for High Quality TV Catalog Restoration
MTI Film
Topaz Labs
Standardization of Common Media Application Format (CMAF)
MPEG Systems (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3)
Pioneering Concepts of the Light Valve
Michael Faraday and John Kerr
Pioneering Development of the Photocell
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel, Julius Johann, Phillipp Ludwig Elster and Hans Friedrich Karl Geitel
Pioneering Development of Optical-Input Facsimile Transmission
Carlo Mario Perosino, Édouard Belin and Arthur Korn
2023 Awards
The 75th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards were as follows.
Excellence in Production Technology Award: The Santa Clauses, Season 2, Disney+ / Industrial Light & Magic
David Hirschfield, Matthew Lausch, Stephen Hill, Alan Bucior, Scott Richards, Matthew O'Neil, Nick Rasmussen, Mike Jutan, Rodney Huff, Jose Luis Gomez Diaz
Pioneering Development of Inexpensive Video Technology for Animation
Lyon Lamb (Bruce Lyon and John Lamb)
Large Scale Deployment of Smart TV Operating Systems
Samsung
LG
Sony
Vizio
Panasonic
Creation and Implementation of HDR Static LUT, Single-Stream Live Production
BBC
NBC
Pioneering Technologies Enabling High Performance Communications Over Cable TV Systems
Broadcom
General Instrument (CommScope)
LANcity (CommScope)
3COM (HP)
Pioneering Development of Manifest-based Playout for FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming Television)
Amagi
Pluto TV
Turner
Targeted Ad Messages Delivered Across Paused Media
DirecTV
Pioneering Development of IP Address Geolocation Technologies to Protect Content Rights
MLB
Quova
Development of Stream Switching Technology between Satellite Broadcast and Internet to Improve Signal Reliability
DirecTV
Design and Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud
Netint
AMD
Meta
Spectrum Auction Design
FCC
Auctionomics
TV Pioneers – Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT)
Karl Ferdinand Braun
Boris Lvovich Rosing
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
TV Pioneers – Development of lighting, ventilation, and lens-coating technologies
Hertha Ayrton
Katharine Burr Blodgett
2022 Awards
The 74th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards were as follows.
Invention and Development of the Pinned Photodiode Now Used in Most Image Sensors
Nobukazu Teranishi
NEC
Extraction of Granular Census Level Behavioral Data using ACR
Cognitive Networks
Enswers
Turner Media lab
AI-ML curation of Sports Highlights
WSC Sports
IBM
Comcast
Digital Cinema Camera Mounted Video Extender for Live Audiences
MultiDyne
ARRI
Pioneering Development and Deployment of Virtualized Cable Modem
Harmonic
Comcast
Intel
TV Pioneer Hall of Fame
Llewelyn Birchall Atkinson
Jean Lazare Weiller
Thomas Alva Edison
Jan Szczepanik
Constantin Dmitrievich Perskyi
2021 Awards
The 73rd annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards were as follows.
Video & Audio Search based on Index Feeds coming from Multiple Sources
Shadow TV
In Camera Sensor and Software Stabilization
GoPro
Socionext
Correlated Double Sampling for Image Sensors
Marvin H. White
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Group
Pioneering Development of an Image-Sensor Array with Buried-Photodiode Structure
Peter J. W. Noble
Standardization of Font Technology for Custom Downloadable Fonts and Typography for Web and TV Devices
MPEG
W3C – WebFonts Working Group
Common Key Technology of OTT Content
Apple
MLB Advanced Media
Microsoft
Netflix
Development of the Event Scheduling and Notification Interface (ESNI)
Cable Labs
OATC
SCTE
Cloud Enabled Remote Editing and Project Management
Arvato Systems Group
EditShare
Ross Video (Primestream)
Pioneering Development of Technologies to collect granular linear TV Viewership Data including STBs, ACR, Connected TV's for Measurement, Marketing & Advertising
Bell South
Cablevision
DIRECTV
NCM Solutions
Standardization of HTTP Encapsulated Protocols
Apple
MLB Advanced Media
MPEG
3GPP
Management of IP Multicast Video Distribution to Desktops and TVs in News & Media Production Facilities
Haivision
VITEC
2020 Awards
The 72nd annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards were as follows.
System to Measure Video Performances and Demographics across multiple platforms
Nielsen
Pioneering Development and Deployment of Server-side Ad Manipulation and/or Playout for Adaptive Bitrate Video Distribution
mDialog, Anvato (Google)
NBCU
This Technology (Comcast)
Seawell (Commscope)
TimeWarner Cable (Charter)
Development of Open Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization
Beamr
Netflix
University of Southern California
Université de Nantes
University of Texas at Austin
SSIMWAVE
Disney
Brightcove
Ateme
Development of the Event Signaling and Management API Standard
CableLabs
Comcast
Time Warner Cable (Charter)
SCTE
Pioneering Deployment of the Event Signaling and Management API
Time Warner Cable (Charter)
Arris (Commscope)
Cisco
Envivio (MediaKind)
Harmonic
RGB Networks
This Technology (Comcast)
Pioneering development of LED lighting for Television Production
Litepanels LTD (Vitec Production Solutions)
Cross-MVPD Dynamic Ad Insertion for Cable Network Video on Demand Content
Canoe Ventures
AI/Optimization for Real-Time Video Compression
Harmonic
MediaKind
Ateme
Amazon Web Services
Invention and Pioneering Development of Intra-Pixel Charge Transfer CMOS Image Sensors
Eric Fossum
ON Semiconductor
Eastman Kodak
Standardization of SMPTE ST 2110
SMPTE
Video Services Forum
Common Encryption
European Broadcasting Union
DVB
Content Delivery Networks
Akamai Technologies
Standardization and Commercialization of Television – Broadcast, Hybrid Electrical and Fiber-Optic Camera Cable and Connectors
SMPTE
Association of Radio Industries and Businesses
European Broadcasting Union
LEMO
Belden
NEMAL
OLED Reference Monitors for Creative, Technical, Quality Control and Client Viewing
LG Electronics
Sony Electronics
Dynamic Metadata for optimal HDR and WCG color volume mapping
Dolby Laboratories
Advanced Authoring Format
AAF Association (AMWA)
Avid Technology
BBC Research & Development
European Broadcasting Union
Pioneering secure cloud-based VFX project management and collaboration at scale
Nelvana (Corus Entertainment)
Shotgun Software (Autodesk)
Development and Pioneering Deployment of Synchronized Local DMA Advertising Capability for DBS / MVPD's
Ampersand
Comcast
Charter
Cox
AT&T
Dish
Invidi
Standardization of the ISO Base Media File Format
File Format Subgroup under ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3 (MPEG Systems)
On-air Touch Screen for Data Visualization
CBS
CNN
Development of Massive Processing Optimized Compression Technologies
Amazon
Ateme
Bitmovin
Brightcove
Disney
Encoding.com
Google-YouTube
Netflix
Newsroom Computer System (NRCS) used to plan and automate the production of linear live-to-air or live-to-recording news program
Associated Press
Avid Technology
2019 Awards
The 71st annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards were as follows.
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