Chapter 103 CD technology patent

After the press conference, most media reporters and representatives of industry companies left. After all, this is just announcing the start of an OEM factory.

The products of Longteng chip factory are not surprising, they are the 80286 processors and 80386 processors that are popular in the world now. Moreover, Intel has many foundries, but there are never such a large foundry.

However, Sony's representative Akio Morita did not leave. Because, before that, Zhang Bixuan proposed to purchase patents such as CD, CD-R from Sony on behalf of Longteng Electric Company.

No matter the DVD drive installed on the computer in Zhang Bixuan's plan, or the popular VCD, DVD and other technologies in the future, they cannot spare Sony's patents. Although, it was not until more than 10 years later that China joined the integration of WTO and world computing.

Nowadays, domestic registered patents in China are invalid internationally, and internationally registered patents are also invalid in China. If you seek domestic benefits for 10 years, you can naturally use foreign patents without restraint, and even shamelessly register foreign patents in China as your own patent. However, in this way, Longteng Group's reputation in the international field is inauspicious.

Moreover, China will still join WTO in more than 10 years. As long as China is in line with the world and registers international patents as its own domestic patents, this kind of loophole behavior will eventually be in vain.

In 1989, Philips and Sony released the orange book for the standard for burnable discs, which contains three parts: the first part is the cd-mo (magneto-optical) standard, which is a standard for rewritable burning, but the standard was soon cancelled, and no products of this standard were even released. The second part formulated the cd-r standard; the third part formulated the reading on the drive of cd-rwww.piaotian.com. The working principle of cd-r and cd-rom are the same, and are read through the "sinks" of laser light and the changes in reflected light of "flat ground"; the difference is that the "sinks" of cd-rom are printed, while the cd-r burner is fired.

Originally, Zhang Bixuan planned to "invent" technologies such as cd-r/cd-rom, and then organized people to study mpeg-1, mpeg-2, and capture all vcd and dvd technologies in one place.

However, this is not realistic, because both CD-R and CD-rom CD-ROM read and write technologies are extended based on Sony's patented CD technology in 1980.

In 1980, in order to promote the CD technical standards, Sony brought up Philips' shared patents, jointly promoted the patent standards, and expanded the influence of the CD patent technical standards. Initially, the CD digital audio signal was introduced by Sony and Philips as a form of music dissemination during 1980. Because the sound quality is better than traditional video tapes, the 5.25-inch CD CD was popular as soon as it was launched. At this time, the CD technology was not only used in entertainment, but also some computers were equipped with CD optical drives for data storage. However, the CD optical drive was not as popular as the DVD optical drives in the future, and the compatibility was not ideal, and it could not be a replacement for floppy disks.

In fact, in 1988, most people saw that Sony and Philips had already had differences. Philips developed CD-R technology, but Sony also organized people to study Mo technology.

Facts have proved that Mo technology has no development potential, and Sony will soon give up promoting the Mo technology standards. Because the only advantage of the Mo magneto-optical disc is that it can store more information. After continuous improvement, the Mo storage disc can even store nearly 10gb of information. Although Mo disks are cheaper and durable than hard disks and floppy disks, they are more expensive compared to CD-R disks. The fatal disadvantage of Mo is that they cannot be read out with ordinary CD-ROM drives, so they cannot meet the requirements of the information society for exchanging computer data and distributing data. In places where network technology and network construction are underdeveloped, this problem is often provoked and serious. By the mid-1990s, the appearance of cheaper DVD discs meant the end of Mo.

The elevator opened, Zhang Bixuan and Akio Morita walked out of the elevator, Zhang Bixuan greeted his parents respectively, and then took Akio Morita to an free office.

At this time, Zhang Bixuan and Akio Morita had already arrived at the office on the top floor of Longteng Building to discuss patent authorization issues.

"Zhang Sang, our Sony company has formed an alliance with Philips, and we are not short of funds." Akio Morita said, observing Zhang Bixuan's expression, "If you want to produce CD machines or CD CDs, we can provide technology. For every CD machine you produce, you can pay us Sony $10 patent!"

Akio Morita's Chinese language is quite understandable among foreigners, but he has a relatively fluent Chinese level, although it sounds strange to Zhang Bixuan's ears.

A CD machine with USD 10 is not much, but the production of thousands of units is equivalent to being continuously exploited by Sony. Moreover, the CD machine is not the product that Zhang Bixuan wants to produce in the end. He wants to produce vcd, DVD, and even the vcd optical drive and DVD optical drive on the computer.

The one who charged Chinese DVD manufacturers' patent fees in the previous life was the initiators of more than a dozen DVD forums such as Sony and Philips. These groups relied on patents and standards to make a living. The DVD forum is not a bbs on the Internet, but an authoritative organization that released DVD standards, and is a group of vampires!

Zhang Bixuan plans to set up a vcd forum and dvd forum after he completes the technologies of vcd, dvd, and publish all the subsequent vcd standards and dvd standards. Foreign manufacturers have to pay patent fees if they want to produce according to their own standards. If they want to produce according to their standards, hehe, then you have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to develop new patents to bypass our patent trap!

The advantage of vcd and dvd as multimedia playback equipment is obvious. At least it is much cheaper than the popular video tapes and ld discs. ld is also a technology based on CD technology expansion, which is a bit similar to vcd or DVD, but the cost is a hundred times that of vcd or DVD discs. Moreover, ld is only popular in Hong Kong, Japan and other places, and ld is basically not seen in mainland China and North America. However, because ld discs are expensive and there are not many people using them, even pirates are not interested in creating pirated ld discs, because a CD cost tens of dollars, there is no price advantage over the genuine ones.

Zhang Bixuan smiled and said, "If I just intend to produce CD machines or burn some CD records, there is no need to discuss patent topics with you! Since you are here, I have to ask you to give me an answer to this question!"

Akio Morita said, "Aren't you forced me?"

"No, I'm not forcing me, I'm asking for your opinion! Besides, I have the strength to prove that our Longteng has a research team that is not inferior to Philips!" Zhang Bixuan said, and established an industrial forum with a CD-rwww.piaotian.comitsubishi Chemical Company and released CD-rwww.piaotian.comp6200s, a product with a burning speed of 2 times, a 2 times speed rewrite, and a 6 times speed reading. At the same time, the third part of the Orange Book was officially released, and the cd-rw standard was officially defined since then.

In other words, the CD-RW technology is now a semi-mature theory, but Sony and Philip announced the standard first, but there was actually no goods. This behavior of occupying the pit but not shit until 7 years later made Zhang Bixuan feel indignant, so he organized technicians from Longteng Electric Company to study CD-RW technology as early as 1987.

Akio Morita said in disbelief: "Did you research it?"

Zhang Bixuan said: "Yes! However, because of the adoption of some of your patents, I must get your authorization! Don't worry, you won't suffer any losses. I am going to spend 100 million US dollars to buy your CD, CD-R and other patents!"

Originally, Sony despised the inconvenience of reading and writing in cd-r technology, so he studied cd-mo technology. Now, seeing powerful groups such as cd-rwww.piaotian.comter Alliance, Longteng Fund, Longteng Film, etc. that can be read and written repeatedly, plus Zhang Bixuan's many fearful working capital, if he was angry, it would be more than worth the loss to specifically block Sony in the market. Moreover, Zhang Bixuan involved a wide range of areas and has a certain complementarity with Sony.

Akio Morita's face was unstable. After a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I can license a series of CD-based patents to you on behalf of Sony. However, I think your CD-RW patents can be added to the 100 million US dollars! In the future, you cannot authorize CD, CD-R and other patents to third parties for use!"

Zhang Bixuan smiled and said, "Very good! I think we should sign a contract as soon as possible!"
Chapter completed!