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Nintendo European Research & Development (or NERD) was formerly known as Mobiclip, formerly known as Actimagine , is a Nintendo subsidiary, located in Paris, which develops software technologies and middleware for Nintendo platforms.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Iwata Asks - 1. Introduction - Iwata Asks: NERD - Nintendo )〕 Some notable customers, aside from Nintendo, included Sony Pictures Digital, and Fisher-Price. Nintendo licensed Mobiclip compression technology for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS video game consoles, used by popular games such as Square Enix's Final Fantasy III and Konami's Contra 4. Fisher-Price used them for its Pixter Multi-Media educational toy. Sony Pictures Digital and The Carphone Warehouse used Mobiclip software to deliver TV-like full-length movies on MicroSD memory cards for smart phones. Nintendo European Research & Development (NERD) holds patents on its video codecs and DRM technology. ==History== Actimagine was established in March 2003 by a team of engineers and managers. Actimagine started out with mobile gaming consoles. The video compression technology offered by Mobiclip was an optimized response to the battery life and video quality requirements of Nintendo video gaming platforms: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Wii, and Nintendo 3DS. The Mobiclip codec provides high video quality with low battery consumption and has been selected by major studios, such as Sony Pictures Digital, Paramount, Fox and Gaumont Colombia Tristar Films, and by leading handset manufacturers, such as Nokia or Sony Ericsson, to deliver video on memory cards for mobile phones. On April 2006, Actimagine raised €3 million in equity financing from US venture capital firm GRP Partners. This first round of institutional fund raising enabled Actimagine to accelerate its business development in the US and Japan. The same year, Adobe acquired Actimagine's Flash rendering engine optimized for mobile devices.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adobe - Adobe Press Room: For immediate release )〕 In 2008, Mobiclip launched the first application delivering live TV on the iPhone, a year before Apple. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apple launches HTTP Live Streaming standard in iPhone 3.0 )〕 On October 2011, Mobiclip was bought by Nintendo and is now a subsidiary of the latter. Since then it is now known as "Nintendo European Research & Development" or "NERD". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nintendo European Research & Development」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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