Innovation Timeline

Mike Tsinberg & Key Digital Innovation Timeline

Mike Tsinberg is a true video industry expert, leader of the Emmy-award winning DVD authoring team, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Fellow, inventor of over forty patents, and Chair of numerous professional committees dedicated to digital video.

2019

  • Key Digital Unified Communication & Collaboration (UCC) Solutions Launched

2018

  • Key Digital® Management Software Launched on PC
  • Key Digital® iOS App Launched

2017

  • Compass Control® Pro Launched

2016

  • Key Digital AV over IP Solutions Launched

2015

  • Patent US-9210352-B2: Audio video instruction format switcher
  • Patent US-20150229534-A1: Integrated control system for devices in a premise
  • Patent US-8930610-B2: System and method for transmitting control signals over HDMI

2014

  • Compass Control® Pro Modular System and Compass Alliance™ Partner modules released

2013

  • Received 2013 Adele De Berri Pioneers Award at InfoComm 2013

2012

  • Release of Compass Control® Pro the first fully integrated major control system built from the ground up to use Apple's iOS – as its backbone.

2010

  • Plug and Play vs. Plug and Pray – HDMI Buffering Method introduced

2009

  • Key Digital® 1 Key Technology: HDCP authentication technology
  • Noise-free OPEN EYE™ Technology implemented on all Key Digital® HDMI Products

2008

  • Introduction of first HDMI Distribution Amplifier with EDID Contro
  • Release of first Matrix Switcher with Video/Audio/Control via Single CAT5/6

2006

  • Introduction of our first HDMI Switcher, and first HDTV Matrix Switcher

2002

  • Release of KD-HDLEEZA, First 1080p Scaler

2001

  • Patent US-6212680-B1: Multi-channel electronic programming guide and soft picture-in-picture acquisition for use with digital television

2000

  • Patent US-6094232-A: Method and system for interpolating a missing pixel using a motion vector

1999

  • Key Digital founded by Mike Tsinberg, first product release, KD-DA12 for Best Buy
  • Received Emmy Award for DVD Technology Development as a member of Toshiba team

1998

  • Patent US-5838874-A: Audiovisual encoding system with a reduced number of audio encoders
  • Patent US-5819004-A: Method and system for a user to manually alter the quality of previously encoded video frames
  • Patent US-5767797-A: High definition video decoding using multiple partition decoders
  • Patent US-5734784-A: High data rate system and method for video recording and playback

1997

  • Chair, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) sub-committees on motion estimation technology and Digital TV bit stream analyzers 1997-2000
  • Patent US-5689305-A: System for deinterlacing digitally compressed video and method
  • Patent US-5684714-A: Method and system for a user to manually alter the quality of a previously encoded video sequence
  • Patent US-5619335-A: Digital video recording and playback system and method having multiple playback devices outputting video program data on multiple channels

1996

  • Member of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers)
  • Patent US-5555193-A: Video compression system with editing flag
  • Patent US-5537215-A: Apparatus for processing band-compressed signals having inter-frame and intra-frame signals

1994

  • Developed world’s first Digital Video Disc (DVD), key DVD enabling technology
  • Patent US-5282019-A: Method and apparatus for the transmission and reception of a multicarrier digital television signal

1993

  • Patent US-5179442-A: Method and apparatus for digitally processing a high definition television augmentation signal

1992

  • Patent US-5134464-A: Method and apparatus for the transmission and reception of a multicarrier digital television signal
  • Patent US-5128761-A: Method and apparatus from transmitting augmentation panel components on one channel of a two channel wide aspect ratio television signal transmission
  • Patent US-5126844-A: Decomposition and recombination of a wide-aspect ratio image
  • Patent US-5113242-A: Two-line MAC high definition television system
  • Patent US-5087970-A: System for providing a high definition television (HDTV) augmentation channel comprising time and frequency multiplexed components

1991

  • Developed world’s first Digital Consumer HDTV VCR (DVCR)
  • Senior Manager, Toshiba America Consumer Products, Advanced TV Technology Center
  • Patent US-5067011-A: Method and apparatus for demodulating chrominance signals using a training signal in place of a color burst signal
  • Patent US-5053860-A: Method and apparatus for the transmission and reception multicarrier high definition television signal
  • Patent US-5006926-A: >High definition multiple analog component amplitude modulated television transmission system
  • Patent US-4999701-A: High definition NTSC compatible television system with increased horizontal bandwidth and reduced color artifacts
  • Patent US-4984067-A: HDNTSC transmission and reception with time and frequency multiplexing

1990

  • Patent US-4979023-A: Adaptive comb filter for artifact-free decoding
  • Patent US-4977454-A: HDNTSC channel with frequency multiplexing
  • Patent US-4974064-A: Apparatus for encoding television signals of different formats for transmission and decoding upon reception
  • Patent US-4947241-A: Training signal for maintaining the correct phase and gain relationship between signals in a two-signal high definition television system
  • Patent US-4945411-A: HDNTSC channel with time and frequency multiplexing
  • Patent US-4943856-A: Method and apparatus for introducing a pan and scan feature to high definition television systems
  • Patent US-4908697-A: Two-line mac high definition television system
  • Patent US-4899220-A: Method and apparatus for recombining a main panel component with a augmentation panel component to create a wide aspect ratio television display

1989

  • Patent US-4890283-A: High definition television augmentation channel
  • Patent US-4873567-A: Extended horizontal resolution of luminance and chrominance in a high definition television system
  • Patent US-4847682-A: Adaptive comb filter for artifact-free decoding
  • Patent US-4837619-A: Scan rate conversion apparatus and method

1988

  • Patent US-4794456-A: High-definition television transmission system
  • Patent US-4794447-A: Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a high definition NTSC compatible television signal over a single DBS channel

1987

  • Developed first high-defintion television transmission system
  • Patent US-4694338-A: High-definition television transmission system