Lesif

History

2016

The Russian company "Lesif" attracted at the beginning of 2016 32 million from the Leader company managing means of the closed share fund of venture investments of "Leading innovation" created with participation of the capital of RVC. Using these means Lesif until the end of 2016 is going to complete development of the apparatnonezavisimy video codec of new generation which will be able to exceed the technologies of video coding which are present at the market^[1] existing today on the characteristics^[2].

The video codec is meant as the software for compression and recovery of earlier compressed video. His consumers are broadcasters (TV and the Internet), creators of video content, producers of video cameras, computing chips, computers, consumer electronics and mobile phones and also creators of browsers and operating systems.

The basis of a new product will be formed by own long-term developments of the programmer Vsevolod Mokrushin implemented by it in the SIF-1 codec on which he in February, 2013 took out the corresponding patent in the USA. Initially this codec was written in programming language C ++ with assembly inserts, then was rewritten on Page.

According to Mokrushin, in the middle of the 2000th years he received on the developments a grant from Ivan Bortnik's fund (several thousands of dollars which completely left on patent procedures). For several years of work on the codec the angel investor Vadim Asadov financially supported.

As subcontractor in the project the Russian company "Elekard Devaysez" positioning itself as "one of 5 companies in the world having the best examination and specialists in this area" will act.

Competitors and legal features

In Lesif consider that today in the world of video codecs the H.265/HEVC standards of consortium MPEG LA and VP9 of Google company dominate. Runtime royalty fees from each made product connected with video are forced to pay both all producers of electronics, and the companies broadcasting and accepting video.

In a conversation with CNews Mokrushin highlighted importance of existence of a pool of patents the, independent of MPEG LA, covering the developed technology. According to him, it allows not to depend on holders of patents for the existing commercial codecs and gives the chance to the potential buyer of a product to avoid patent assignments to the third-party companies.

According to the USRLE and " circuit.focus ", Mokrushin was a part of founders Lesif in January, 2016. As the second cofounder and the director of the company Konstantin Belyakov who was earlier the cofounder of Elekard-med company — the structure connected with above-mentioned Elekard of devaysez acts.

In base " circuit.focus " Elekard of devaysez Lesif is registered as one of the former founders. According to representatives of the project, over 50% in Lesif LLC belong to the present moment to Leader-innovatsii fund which means UK "Leader", today the management company, largest in Russia, on the amount of assets manages (more p391.4 of one billion as of September 30, 2015).

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