July 2009: Civolution assumed full ownership of the Thomson STS watermarking business based in Rennes, France
October 2008: Completion of spin-off from Philips Corporate Technologies into Prime Technology Venture as Civolution B.V.
Civolution has an extensive product portfolio of world-class watermarking and fingerprinting solutions. Civolution is an independent and trusted supplier that can help the entertainment industry to maintain control of their valuable copyrighted assets.
September 2008: Assumed full ownership of former joint venture Teletrax, the world’s first global broadcast intelligence company.
April 2007: Announced VTrack watermarking solution for additional protection of high value content in PayTV applications, such as high definition and early release content. VTrack is designed for set-top box integration, which is supported by major chipset vendors including Broadcom, ST and Texas Instrument.
2006: Philips Content Identification introduced CineFence, a forensic marking solution for digital cinemas, fully complying with the DCI specifications that was already deployed by the end of 2006 in thousands of digital cinemas. In December 2006 MediaHedge content clearing was introduced. This automated copyrighted video detection solution was based on Philips video fingerprinting technology and used for video identification for instance for Internet filtering applications.
2003: Philips Content Identification watermarking technology were successfully used for identifying the source of illegal copies of the 2003 Academy Award Screeners and used by the major Hollywood Studio’s for protecting their valuable dailies, pre-release material and theatrical releases content.
2002: A dedicated line of business called Philips Content Identification was formed to support its customers in the domains of monitoring and forensic tracking applications using Philips audio and video watermarking technology, and the then newly developed audio fingerprinting technology.
2000: First commercialization activities.
1996: After several years of research and development on the technology, the first watermarking activities started that would be the basis for Civolution within the Philips Research labs.
