Editing Audio Video Standard (section)

==Organizations==

=== Workgroup ===

The AVS workgroup was founded in June 2002 to cooperate with Chinese enterprises and scientific research institutions, to formulate and revise common technical standards such as digital audio and digital video's compression, decompression, processing and representation, thus to provide efficient and economic coding/decoding technologies for digital audio and digital video devices and systems, serving the high-resolution digital broadcasting, high-density digital laser storage media, wireless broadband multimedia communication, Internet broadband streaming media, and other applications.

The workgroup is headed by '''Gao Wen''', the academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, the professor and Ph.D. supervisor of Peking University, and the deputy director of the National Natural Science Fund Committee, consisting of a requirement group, system group, video group, audio group, test group, intellectual property group and other departments. The first setback was when China did not use AVS for its own digital television broadcast system in 2003.<ref>{{Cite book |pages= 93–95 |title= China's Science and Technology Sector and the Forces of Globalisation |date= 2008 |publisher= World Scientific Publishing |isbn= 978-981-277-101-8 |editor= Elspeth Thomson, Jon Sigurdson |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8-CJchYbrQYC&dq=SARFT+AVS&pg=PA95 |access-date= June 15, 2022  }}</ref>

=== Patent pool ===

A [[patent pool]] which manages and authorizes the patents was founded on September 20, 2004. The committee was the first patent pool management institution in China. An independent corporate association, the Beijing Haidian District Digital Audio and Video Standard Promotion Center, is registered in the Civil Affairs Bureau of Haidian District of Beijing City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.avs.org.cn/history.asp?view_year=2002|script-title=zh:跳转提示|website=www.avs.org.cn}}</ref> for patent technologies included in the standard, as the expert committee and the main business decision-making institution of the promotion center. The royalty for the first generation AVS standard was only one yuan per terminal. The plan was to charge a small amount of royalty only for the terminal, excluding the contents, as well as software services on the Internet.<ref>{{Cite book |publisher=  National Academies Press |author=National Research Council |title=  Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communications Technology |date= October 7, 2013 |isbn= 978-0-309-29315-0 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=SR6fAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT135 |access-date= June 15, 2022 }}</ref>

=== Alliance ===
The AVS Industry Alliance, short for Zhongguancun Audio Visual Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, was formed in May 2005 in Beijing by twelve entities, including TCL Group Co., Ltd., Skyworth Group Research Institute, Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., Hisense Group Co., Ltd., Haier Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Haier Guangke Co., Ltd., Inspur Group Co., Ltd., Joint Source Digital Audio Video Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., New Pudong District Mobile Communication Association, Sichuan Changhong Co., Ltd., Shanghai SVA (Group) Central Research Institute, Zte Communication Co., Ltd., and Zhongguancun Hi-Tech Industry Association. The organization is also known as AVSA, and it collaborates with "AVS Workgroup" and "AVS Patent Pool Management Committee" as part of the "Three Carriages."