Eyecon Technologies

Eyecon's Software Solution

Imagine searching and previewing your media on a second screen, without interrupting the show you’re watching on TV or the stereo playing your jazz.

What if that second screen was in the palm of your hand?

Eyecon bridges your media and your entertainment devices, turning your smartphone, notebook or other device into your home media manager. 

Search – find, preview and retrieve your media libraries from across your network or from web-based sources like YouTube or Flickr, among others.

Play – route video, audio and images to any connected device: TV, Stereo, or another PC. Control your playback with 'remote' functions like play/pause, volume control, and skip.

Enjoy – do it all from the comfort of your iPhone, smartphone, portable device or computer. Without getting up.
 

Search and Preview

Discover content through a hierarchical navigation or textual search.

Choose the source to include in your browse.  Quickly and easily search all of your local and internet content by simply typing in your search parameters and. immediately, the results appear and are available for preview. Narrow your search  by clicking on a source to add a check mark, then type in your search parameters, click go to see your results.

Click on the thumbnail of the media that you would like to preview and instantly see the preview in the Previewblock. The Previewblock also allows you to pause, playback and control volume.

Quickly and easily search all of your local and internet content by simply typing in what you would like to search. Immediately the results appear and are available for preview.

Click on the thumbnail in the Resultsblock to instantly preview your media. The Previewblock allows you to pause, playback and control volume.

Preview the results by tapping the thumbnail in the results block. Your private preview plays without interrupting the television screen.

Need to see that preview full screen on your handheld device? Just tap the picture and instantly you have full screen viewing and controls at your fingertips. To exit full screen view, simply tap on the "exit full screen".

When you exit full screen viewing you are automatically returned to the the Results, Preview, and Pick blocks. 

 
Pick, Plug'n Play

Pick from your results list and drag it to your pick list.  The pick list is a collection of media you can choose from to create plug lists. 

Plug lists are device specific. Create a list of media for each connected device in your home.  Set up your family room TV to watch your favorite family shows. Move to your living room for a new selection. Create endless entertainment for every device in your home.

n'Play by tapping on the device you want to use, the plug list immediately populates and your media begins to play.

 

Fill your pick list with one or all of your search results for future viewing. To watch your media immediately, scroll across the top to see the Pick, Plug 'n Play blocks and drag your media to the device in the Playblock. The color scheme will show you exactly what you're  playing and on which device.

Create a Pluglist

Imagine having your music, pictures and video all waiting in queue to play. Create a plug list for your favorite media to take you through the evening without ever thinking about what to play next.

Plug lists are device dependent making it easy for you to create lists for each of your devices separately. Depending on the room you are entertaining in or the events planned for the evening, you can choose from music, photos and video or choose all three to plan your evening. Create plug lists ahead of time that direct your media to a specific device. Color coding specific to each device makes it easy to see what is playing and where.
 

Now that you have a pick list, just drag and drop your media to the device to create a plug list  for a specific device. Create a family media package to watch on the Family Room TV and a completely different plug list for your bedroom TV. Create a plug list music package for a dinner party assigned to the Living Room stereo.

Plug lists can hold an unlimited number of items so add as many items as you like to all of your plug lists.

Each device will have its own color association making it simple to see exactly what is playing on each device. For example, the green plug list is for the Family Room TV, the highlighted media item is playing on the Family Room TV.

Tap on a thumbnail in a plug list to play a preview in the Plugblock. It’s easy to preview items in queue while watching something else on the big screen.  You will never have to interrupt the big screen again, now you can surf on your handheld.

Need to see the clip full screen on your handheld device? Just double tap on the preview and you have full screen viewing.  This is your private full screen view, with controls at the bottom of your screen.

Just tap exit full screen to return to your plug list. Now the Soccer Comedy is playing on the Family Room TV. Choose what to watch, where and when to watch.

Personalize

Personalize Eyecon to suit your needs.

• View your personal media choices, from private or local internet sources
• Name your source
• Add a default device for each user

You choose:  search all of your sources or be selective, by clicking on the source you would like to search. Choose from local and internet sources or choose by media format. It's easy to create a queue on the fly with images and or videos from multiple sources.

If you have  multiple devices, simply assign a name to each and never get mixed up again. The edit source block allows you to customize your sources and simplify your choices.

After clicking on the icon in the edit source block customize by typing in a new name. Your Sourceblock will show the new name for future use.

Use the edit user block to assign a default device to your Pickblock. Simlply click on the user name, when the drop downl appears choose a device. With one click send your preview to a preassigned device, You are always only one click away from your default device!

Eyecon Technologies

Eyecon Technologies was founded in 2003 in a garage. We got together with a bunch of smart and talented people to answer some simple questions:

Why wade through each of your various media libraries and favorite web-sources individually?

Why clutter your TV screen when browsing your movies and deciding what to watch?

Why is it a major hassle playing media from your computer to the stereo or big screen?

Couldn't come up with any answers? Neither could we.
 
Our mission:

Allow you to search through all your media simultaneously and play it to any device, without cluttering the screen, without  getting up and with zero hassle.

We’ve grown and moved into an office in Palo Alto, CA, with branches in Israel and Vietnam, though occasionally we still consider using that garage.

Meir Friedlander
President & CEO

Digital Home and Interactive TV Veteran, previously CEO and founder at Vsoft, Executive at SeamBI, Amdocs and Digital Equipment. Mr. Friedlander has 25+ years of experience in leadership, execution, operations, strategic vision, and investments, a pioneer of IPTV, VoD, and Networked PVR at Digital Equipment Corporation.

High tech background in various industries: Telecom, Media Service Providers, Advertisements, Internet Content and Home Entertainment. Mr. Friedlander has held CEO and executive roles in start-ups and large organizations; Amdocs Inc, a market leader in customer care and billing systems for network service providers; Vsoft LTD. Founder and CEO at Mediacomp and VSoft. Mr. Friedlander graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University with a MSC in Computer Science and BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics. Mr. Friedlander holds 5 U.S. patents.

Ari Birger
Founder & CTO

Mr. Birger has 20+ years in engineering development and architecture of signal, video processing and networking. He started his professional career at Motorola in 1984, where he worked primarily in signal processing systems. In 1992, while at LSI logic, he worked on MPEG encoding chip-set.

As a co-founder of MMC Networks, acquired for $4.5B by AMCC in 2000, Mr. Birger helped define, design and implement the world's first network processors and advanced switching platforms. He holds 8 U.S. and International patents and has 5 pending in signal processing and networking. Mr. Birger graduated from Technion in Haifa, 1984 with a Bachelor Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Ari co-founded Eyecon Technologies, Inc. in 2003, introducing a new generation of software-based remote control.

J. Herschel Shermis
Chief Architect, VP Product

Mr. Shermis joined Eyecon with 20+ years engineering development and architecting of MP computer systems and high performance networks. Starting as a Unix kernel programmer with Sun Microsystems in 1987, his focus was in networking, file systems, and debugger development for multiprocessor / multi-threaded systems. At Silicon Graphics in 1994, he worked with streaming MPEG video distribution

for the Time Warner-Orlando Project. At Juniper Networks, Mr. Shermis helped design and implement the networking kernel in the first version of JUNOS. At Nokia he designed high performance, multi-bladed routers along with the requisite networking code. In 2000, Mr. Shermis co-founded Springbank Networks to design hardware for multimedia CDN infrastructures. Springbank, funded by Sequoia Capital, was sold in 2001 to CacheFlow (BlueCoat Systems). Mr. Shermis is a graduate in Computer Science from UC Davis and Computer Engineering at Chalmers Technical University, Gothenburg Sweden. He holds one patent.

Raviv Moore
VP Business Development

Mr. Moore brings extensive experience in global sales management, Business Development and program management. He has a successful track record of leading large-scale relationship cycles with major Service Providers, including wireless, mobile, IP and Cable.

Previously, Mr. Moore worked at Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) where he held various positions in Amdocs' OSS group initiating Amdocs' successful entrance into the OSS arena. In his last position at Amdocs, Raviv led their largest and most complex prepaid program. Prior to that, he worked at Starhome (a Comverse Technology spin off) as Director of Sales and Business Development, playing a key role in its market penetration. Earlier in his career Raviv held various sales and sales management positions with several technology companies.

Bill Correll
VP Marketing

For close to twenty years, Bill has been involved with technologies related to the development, management and distribution of digital media. Working closely with service providers, entertainment companies, and CE vendors, he has forged strategic business partnerships, directed equity investments, and managed marketing activities for both large enterprises and start-ups.

Prior to Eyecon, Bill was a consultant and executive adviser to numerous software and entertainment services start-ups as well as former Director, Business Development, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Sun Microsystems. At Sun he later served as Director, Corporate Development where he led investments and strategic partnering efforts in the areas of IPTV and video services infrastructure. Bill spent five years on Wall Street with Morgan Stanley and has an MBA from Duke University.

Dan Tzur, PhD
VP Engineering

Dan Tzur, brings over 10 years of software development and project management experience to our team.  Mr. Tzur has a proven track record in the area of complex software systems using advanced algorithms to produce award winning products. Dan started in Israel as a co-Founder of Privassist.  He joined Infogin as a VP, Chief Scientist where he designed and managed the development of the algorithmic core of Infogin's technology.n 2003 he moved to the US and became the VP of R&D at Soligence leading all aspects of the company’s R&D.

Dan also held Director and Senior Manager positions managing projects from inception to delivery and launch. Dan holds a PhD. In Computational Neuroscience and a BSc in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

Board and Advisory team

Eyecon's board and advisory team includes current and former executives from Adobe, Yahoo, ComScore, NagraVision, and NBC. Our expertise includes the following areas: consumer electronics products, service and content providers, DRM, content and internet search, intellectual property, smart phones, user interface, control automation, and advertising.

Service Providers, Content Owners

Charles H. Jablonski - over 25 years in media services and content. VP NBC, SVP & founder Geocast, CEO Myrio, member: IBC, EMMY, NATASConsumer Products, Legacy Device Control.

Sam Young - over 35 years in sales, marketing and BD for CE companies. Former executive at Corsair, Hynix and Pioneer.

Dr. Rafael Fried - GM Wireless in Silicon Labs (SLAB). More than 20 years of control chips (IR, Z-waves, RF) design and manufacturing experience.

Intellectual Property, Media Systems

Eitan Lev - VP Business Intelligence and IP Manager at Conduit. A technology and startup veteran, Eitan has served as VP of research and development at multiple technology companies, including Scopus Network Technologies Ltd., Effective I and Vsoft Ltd. He also has deep software management experience, having led teams at Nexus and Advanced Technology Ltd. An avid inventor, Eitan has five patents and is in charge of intellectual property and patent management at Conduit.

User Interfaces, Mobile Media

Dr. Yaniv Vakrat - GM of Emerging Markets at Adobe. Mr. Vakrat has previously served as Director of Corporate Development at McKinsey & Company, and led several software projects at Xerox and Inproc. Mr. Vakrat holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Information Systems from University of Rochester.

Dror Gill - Founder and CEO of Gamdala Ltd., a consulting company specializing in mobile and multimedia technologies. Mr. Gill has advised on strategic, marketing and technical issues to leading technology, VC and market research firms, including Samsung, NEC, Comverse, Radvision, M-Systems, Zoran, and DSPG.

Search & Discovery

Eran Palmon - serial entrepreneur, business strategist and multi-discipline operating executive with more than 20 years developing, launching and managing software start-ups. Currently, Eran is the director of open search engineering at Yahoo!, responsible for developing Yahoo! open search initiative (BOSS). In 2004 Eran co-founded RawSugar, introducing community search by combining tagging and search technologies. In 2003 he co- founded Eyecon Technologies. In 1993 Eran founded Mercado Software, where he pioneered search for e-commerce. He served as founding CEO and later CTO until 2003.

Overview

Eyecon Technologies is a growing company that is on a constant lookout for talented, self-motivated, fun individuals. If you feel you are ready to immerse yourself in the fast-paced innovative environment, think outside the box, and advance technology to a new level, please email your resume to

jobs@eyecontechnologies.com.

QA Lead Engineer

• Education: BS required, MS preferred
• 5+ years of experience
• Solid understanding of full QA cycle from requirements gathering to test case writing, test case execution, bug reporting, test cycle monitoring.
• Experience with automated test tools
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to perform with minimum supervision
• Windows and Linux administration skills, understanding of TCP/IP / UDP networking
• Proficiency in Shell scripting a plus
• Proficiency in Ant a plus
• SQL a plus

Senior Software Engineer

• Education: BS required, MS preferred
• 5+ years of experience
• Strong understanding of software development cycle, OOA/OOD, design patterns, algorithms
• Strong Java (Networking / AWT / Swing / JDBC / Threads / Ant)
• Communication protocols (HTTP, SOAP, Web Services)
• Windows, Mac, flavors of Linux
• Working knowledge of SQL, HTML
• J2ME, J2EE, DHTML, AJAX, PHP, Flash, ObjectiveC, Multimedia Applications, Mobile Device Development a plus
• Ability to perform with min. supervision

Software Engineer

• Education: BS required
• 3+ years of experience
• Strong Java (Networking / AWT / Swing / JDBC / Threads / Ant)
• Communication protocols (HTTP, SOAP, Web Services)
• Windows, Mac, flavors of Linux
• Working knowledge of SQL, HTML
• J2ME, J2EE, DHTML, AJAX, PHP, Flash, ObjectiveC, Multimedia Applications, Mobile Device Development a plus
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to evolving requirements

   

Graphics Programmer

•  Education: BS required
• 3+ years of experience
• Solid understanding of usability / visual design trends
• J2ME
• Flash, Flex, Air
• AJAX, DHTML
• ObjectiveC a plus
• Ability to perform with minimum supervision
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail

   

Overwhelmed by the explosion of content choices, consumers are finding it increasingly difficult and frustrating to discover, access and enjoy their content. Multiple content libraries, disparate interfaces, and incompatible devices only compound the difficulty and hamstring content providers, CE vendors and Service Providers from monetizing new digital distribution opportunities. Traditional PC based media-center and television-centric navigation solutions have failed to answer the challenge.

The PC based solutions lack portability and availability, while failing to provide work flows that allow for previewing and interaction with synchronized content on the primary viewing screen. Television-based navigation is hampered by the well-known limitations of the remote control and the distracting clutter of menus and keyboards on the TV screen. And because television is often a shared experience, screen clutter and navigation becomes very disruptive to other viewers. Furthermore, neither method has provided a valid nor sustainable revenue model.

 A new approach is required. One that utilizes a synchronized and portable application to simplify and improve the consumers’ total media experience while benefiting the media ecosystem of content providers, CE vendors and service providers. Eyecon's portable and parallel interface screen application is the answer. CE vendors, struggling with software development challenges, will enjoy a shorter time to market and faster adoption of their digital entertainment products.

Service providers and content publishers can gain incremental  revenues by leveraging the additional real-estate on the parallel interface screen for advertising, brand promotion and paid search.

Partner with Us

By putting media control in the palm of the consumers' hands, partnering with Eyecon can immediately benefit vendors, developers and manufacturers of:

• Connected Audio/Video/Photo playback devices
• Set Top Boxes
• Digital Audio Receivers
• UPnP software
• UPnP Servers, Renderers and Players
• Home media servers, software and hardware

• Networked media storage devices
• Software media players
• Home media gateways
• Media entertainment services

If you share our view and would like additional information, please contact Raviv Moore, VP Business Development

Raviv@eyecontechnologies.com

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Eyecon Technologies, Inc.

2483 Old Middlefield Way Ste 206
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