This special session provides a good opportunity to discuss and explore the area of multimedia mobile terminal with a group of experts from mobile terminal makers and mobile network carriers. This session focuses on any aspect of mobile multimedia technologies. The goals of this session are to share understandings and experiences to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions.
| Session Chair : | Dr. Masami YABUSAKI (NTT DoCoMo Inc.) |
| Chair of Technical Group on Mobile Multimedia Communications, IEICE |
Topics
(not limited to) : In the session, we will focus on current and future technologies but not limited to the following:
| Multimedia Application Technologies | |
| Operating System (e.g. Symbian OS, Linux, Windows Mobile) | |
| Graphics Engine (e.g. 2D/3D polygon, Rendering technologies) | |
| Future (Graphical) User Interface | |
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New Communication and external I/F |
Date & Time Venue YRP Center No.1 Building, Yokosuka Research Park |
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| Address: | 3-4 Hikarinooka Yokosuka-city Kanagawa-pref. 239-0847 Japan |
Session Program | 13:45-13:50 | Opening |
| 13:50-14:35 | "New Feature of FOMA 900i Models and Development of Handset" |
| Mitsuru Murata | |
| NTT DoCoMo Inc., Customer Equipment Development Department | |
| Third generation mobile communication systems have grown up in Japan. FOMA 900i models are new handsets for NTT DoCoMo's 3G service. FOMA 900i models have some exciting features. We can see difficulty the development of mobile phones comparison between Mobile phones and PC. | |
| 14:35-15:20 | "Future Mobile Services with Personal Area Network-" |
| Mitsuru Uesugi | |
| Panasonic Mobile Communications R&D Center, Panasonic Mobile Communications | |
| Since the data rate of the future mobile communications
will be very high, many new services will be introduced. For example, very fine screen, 3D screen, and so on will be required. We think that all devices cannot be inside a terminal, but will be separated. Personal Area Network (PAN) is a solution to connect the separated items. We will explain about concept of future mobile services which using PAN. |
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| 15:20-15:30 | break |
| 15:30-16:15 | "The Adoption of Linux for Cellular Phones -For the Improvement of the Efficiency and Quality in Software Development -" |
| Akira Yoshimoto, Koji Maeda and Masajiro Fukunaga | |
| Mobile Terminals Software Development Division, NEC Corporation | |
Recently, in the field of cellular phones, due to the remarkable advancement in such capabilities as Web browsers, Java execution environments, movie features and onboard video cameras, the scale of software that are implemented on cellular phones is increasing, which is clearly facing the limit of the traditional real-time OS (RTOS) in terms of production, inspection man-power and quality maintenance. Regardless of that fact, the multi-media related technology is likely to keep advancing. To catch up with such circumstances, we are promoting the 2-CPU solution: in which we use two CPUs as cellular phone oriented CPUs, one is the communication related CPU which processes the radio control system, and the other is the application related CPU which processes the multimedia and the user interface system. Especially, the application related CPU is expected to improve the development efficiency and the software quality, ! by means of adopting the highly functional OS instead of RTOS. This document shows that we are about to adopt Linux as a highly functional OS for the application related CPU of cellular phones, that we attempt to improve the software quality and the development efficiency, that especially about the development efficiency improvement we make open the cellular phone oriented platform API (Application Program Interface) and recruit the application software which would appeal to users, and that we promote the above policy for openness. |
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| 16:15-17:00 | "Multimedia Device Focus and Series 60 Platform Strategy" |
| Asela Gunawardena | |
| Nokia Technology Platforms | |
In 2001 Nokia realized the importance of licensing the Series 60 Platform to other mobile device manufacturers in order to stimulate the growth of the multimedia mobile services market. Nokia recognized that we must fight fragmentation and build a strong community around a powerful smartphone platform. More than two years later we see the success of this decision with five prominent licensees, multiple Series 60 devices and thousands of applications in the market. This presentation first describes Nokia's focus on multimedia devices -with two categories having chosen to build devices based on Series 60. It then describes the Series 60 Platform and highlights a few of its core applications and technologies. The product creation community is described and value of the Series 60 Platform for device manufacturers, developers and mobile operators is also explained. |
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| 17:00-17:30 | Discussions |
Admission Admission Fee Free (You can purchase the conference proceeding at the rates below. )
Conference Proceeding |
IEICE Member |
Non Member |
(4 March 2004) |
2,000 JPY |
2,500 JPY |
Contact | Hioryuki KASAI |
| NTT DoCoMo Inc., Network Laboratories |
| Phone: +81 46 840 3870 |