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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

Google

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

Google

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

Google

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

Google

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

Facebook

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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