Multimedia services on the web

摘要

Toshiba has been providing various services over the Internet to PC and mobile Web-enabled phone users including the "Ekimae-Tanken Club" Internet-based information and guidance service (ekitan.com). Toshiba has now developed an image delivery system based on our long experience with ekitan.com. The system distributes still pictures as well as text information to multiple carriers and multiple devices. It adapts original pictures to each device according to its display capabilities such as screen size, color depth, and acceptable image file format. Toshiba has also developed a voice-based railway timetable guidance system, which reads out the timetable for the nearest station using Toshiba's text-to-speech (TTS) technology, a map engine, and the railway timetable service. Moreover, as the first step in contents business deployment based on TTS technology, Toshiba has produced a virtual announcer system that performs lip-synced animation. Toshiba is aiming at business deployment in various fields such as the digital broadcasting industry, the Internet, the cellular phone industry, and the game industry.