Business field Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and notebook PCs are equipped with communication functions, mobile computing -> information exchange with computer network of one’s company or Internet thru public telephones or cellular phones In multimedia systems, conferences can be performed while watching the face of the perform(s) one is speaking to, and animated images and other information can be handled. Medical care field Enabling patients for who, it is difficult to go to the hospital or staying a distance away from the hospital to be diagnosed while watching the computer display screen enabling patients of small scale clinics located in remote places to receive medical treatment of the same level as that at general hospital (using patients’ personal information and medical records, radiographs, etc.) Publication field CD-ROM comes with books (compare to conventional-based books, which are only character-based information) Education field Multimedia is used to present research results, exchange opinions, etc. Provide image information on display devices as well as audio information CAI (Computer Aided Instruction) Game field VR (Virtual Reality) VR imitates the real world on the computer display, through comprehensive use of 3-D graphics and 3-D (surround) sounds Interface technology GUI (Graphical User Interface) is used as a multimedia system interface (icons) Software production technology Application software (programs) that handles multimedia is called multimedia title characters, numeral text data, multiple audiovisual data such as still images, animated images, audio, etc is handled tools (authoring tool) to create multimedia titles for enabling easy manipulation of multimedia data are necessary authoring tools are widely used today for production of multimedia titles
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beside characters, voice and images are also handled as digital data The technology used to search for voice and image data in an existing matching pattern is called pattern recognition pho·neme (f n m ) n. The smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the m of mat and the b of bat in English.
Provided by television stations Images are edited as digital data on the computer A service consisting of the distribution of video images at user’s request Spread from disaster monitoring systems, to TV games, and other daily life uses