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Ken Austin is an inventor, technologist, Chairman of Inview Technology Ltd and an expert in the Electronic program guide (EPG) field. His company, based in Northwich, Cheshire, UK is privately owned. Between 1986 and 1996 he was Technical Director and Vice Chairman of Pilkington Micro-elec Ltd. He is a self-taught electronics expert and was the first to secure patents for digital television programme guides during the early 1990s. Parallel computing is based on his early ideas, as is the "Infinite" programmable gate array which he developed in 1989. Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson, FRS, FREng (ex Chief Scientific Adviser to Margaret Thatcher) said in the ''Sunday Times'' that "''Ken Austin is a true inventor of commercial merit.''" He also featured in the book ''Organising Genius'' by Paul Thorne (ISBN 978-0631169598). In 2011 video on demand (VOD) company OnDemand teamed up with Inview Technology to launch video-on-demand (TVOD, SVOD) services on connected TVs. In 2012 he announced an EPG platform which turns a low-cost ("tier 2") TV into a connected or Smart TV.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inview’s own Official Website )〕 ==References== 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「Ken Austin (inventor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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