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Yoshiaki Shibata

President & Chief Consultant

Biography

     Yoshiaki Shibata was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in 1965. After receiving a master’s degree in electronics from Osaka University, he joined Sony Corporation Research Center in 1991, starting his carrier as a researcher of the computer simulation technology in the semiconductor field. In 1996, he moved to the IT/Multimedia related R&D division where he was engaged in the video over Internet as well as the video compression related technology.

     In 1998, he participated in the MPEG-7 (ISO/IEC 15938) standardization activity, where he was in charge of establishing the MPEG-7 metadata schema as the WG chair, worked also as a project editor for ISO/IEC 15938-5 and a co-chair of the MPEG-7 Japan National Body.

     Since 2001, Shibata has started working in the field of Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry for the broadcast and professional audiovisual product developments, where initially he made significant contribution to the UMID specification update (SMPTE ST 330/RP 205) as well as the EssenceMark^TM invention and their promotions in the industry, which has led to their successful implementations in Sony’s professional products.

     In 2003, he joined the XDCAM^TM/Professional Disc development project, where he played a crucial role in the development of the metadata part of the products, resulted in applying for more than forty patents of metadata related technology, more than 3/4 of which have been made granted based on his own patent prosecution.

     Shibata’s broad experiences also include a visiting scientist at University of Illinois (1997-1998), the patent development and promotion task force chair at Sony Japan, and a business strategic planning staff at Sony Group Headquarter.

     In the end of 2010, Shibata has left Sony Corporation to make a trial to be the Japan’s first freelance consultant for the media and metadata technology in the M&E industry. Then, following a one-year preparation period, he founded metaFrontier.jp, LLC in Jan. 2012.

Previous Achievements

The following links lead to the list of Shibata’s previous achievements in the M&E industry.