Philips Electronics Nederland

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Philips Research (founded in 1914 as part of Royal PHILIPS Electronics N.V.) is one of the world's major private research organizations, with laboratories in five different countries (the Netherlands, England, Germany, China and the USA), staffed by around 2,500 people.

Activities have led to the award of some 85,000 patent and design rights, and the publishing of countless thousands of technical and scientific papers. The annual research budget of Philips Research is slightly less than 1% of Philips Electronics' annual sales, which amounted to more than 31.8 billion euros in 2002. Roughly two-thirds of the corporate research work is geared to the activities of the Product Divisions of Philips Electronics, with contractual agreements about programmes and costs. The remainder is research of a more exploratory nature. (Total R&D efforts of Philips Electronics amount to approximately 7.3% of sales.)

Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands ("Natuurkundig Laboratorium") is the largest of the laboratories of the Philips Research organization. Research conducted at these laboratories includes the areas of materials and process technologies, IC design, display systems and personal care, access and interaction systems, storage systems, and information and software technology. The latter two areas are involved in the aceMedia project. Key research areas are: system architecture for distributed home networking for consumer electronics devices, information and data management in such systems, and audio/video content analysis technologies to enable user experiences.