Corporate Profile
Founded in 1971, Faroudja® has been advancing the art and science of video processing for more than thirty years. The company has received over sixty-five patents and three Emmy awards as evidence of its pioneering efforts in creating unrivaled Video Technologies. Today, as a division of Genesis Microchip (Nasdaq: GNSS), Faroudja is the recognized leader in innovative, high-performance video processing technologies for markets requiring superior image quality solutions.

The company leverages its patented technologies to develop, manufacture and sell a broad portfolio of products catering to the Home Theater, Broadcast and Industrial markets. This portfolio includes Video Processors that produce cinema-quality images for large screen applications such as home theaters; Plasma Packages that combine optimized plasma panels with high performance digital video processors to deliver simple installation solutions with superb image quality; Projector Packages and DLP Projectors that offer high performance, digital theater projection systems for business and home theater applications - all sold through authorized Home Theater dealers and installers.

Faroudja’s History
Faroudja was founded by Yves and Isabel Faroudja in 1971. Yves Faroudja was an inventor at heart and wanted to find applications that could incorporate his ideas for innovative Video Technologies. He obtained patents for his technology to improve video quality, particularly for VCRs, and soon became acknowledged as a leader in the field. By 1973, his ideas were rapidly adopted and licensed by some of the biggest names in both the consumer and broadcast industries.

At the same time, Faroudja started manufacturing products based on the same technologies. These products included comb filters and video quality improvement products for use with Sony’s U-Matic video recorders. Faroudja’s adaptive comb filter technology was recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with an Emmy Award in 1991.

In the 1980s, Faroudja began developing technologies for the deinterlacing of NTSC signals, including motion adaptive processing algorithms. In 1989 Faroudja invented and patented film mode detection, also known as inverse 3:2 pulldown detection. Faroudja was the only company in the world that had the ability to detect the original frames of film within the video stream and reconstruct an accurate image, free of motion artifacts containing full vertical resolution. Faroudja introduced the world’s first “line doubler” (deinterlacer), the highly acclaimed LD1, which incorporated this technology. The LD1 and products that followed, the world’s first line quadrupler - the VP400, the DVP5000, DVP3000 and Native Rate Series have made Faroudja the benchmark by which all other video processing is compared. For his lifetime’s work, Yves Faroudja was awarded the prestigious Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Emmy, presented in 1998.