Driven by the BBC’s Royal Charter remit, the BBC must (in particular) ensure that an appropriate balance is struck between:
- The potential for generating revenue through commercial exploitation of its intellectual property,
- The value that might be delivered to the public and the UK economy by making new developments widely and openly available.
BBC R&D makes its intellectual property available to third parties via licensing to help fulfil these obligations, including the technologies below.
For enquiries about licensing our technology, please email TechTransferPartnerships@bbc.co.uk
HLG Look-Up Tables (LUTs)
To facilitate the introduction of Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) production, we are licensing a package of look-up tables (LUTs) which implement a range of key format conversions.
The conversions are implemented as 33-cube 3D-LUTs and include conversions to and from the common implementations of HDR as well as conversions from SDR to HLG.
As part of the package we also offer a 65-cube 3D-LUT for loading into a Dolby PRM-4200/4220 display, to add support for BT.2100 HLG.
For use by broadcasters or production facilities to make content available in HDR using an HLG-based workflow. This licence is available at no cost. Please contact transfer.rd@bbc.co.uk to request a licence.
For use by manufacturers to either embed the LUTs within their products or include the LUTs with their products. This licence is chargeable; please contact transfer.rd@bbc.co.uk for details.
DVB-T2
The second generation standard for digital terrestrial transmission that improved capacity and performance for Freeview HD.The underlying technology in our modulators and demodulators has since been licensed to a number of different partners and used in commercial products. DVB-T2 standard essential patent rights are available via the DVB-T2 Portfolio License Agreement offered by Sisvel or directly from BBC R&D.
Video Coding
The H.265/HEVC video compression standard provides large bit-rate reductions (up to 50%) over its predecessor H.264/AVC. HEVC standard essential patent rights are available via the HEVC Patent Portfolio License Agreement offered by MPEG LA or directly from BBC R&D.
Turing Codec
Our HEVC Turing Codec is video encoder compliant with the HEVC standard. It provides highly efficient compression of video content with low computational complexity. It is available under an open source license (GPL 2.0). A proprietary commercial license is available from BBC R&D.
