Mobile Terminal Devices Research Articles

INFORMACINIŲ TECHNOLOGIJŲ TAIKYMAS STUDIJŲ PROCESE: PALYGINAMOJI ANALIZĖ

The role of information technologies (IT) is increasingly important today. IT eliminate time and distance limitations and provide students with the possibilities of open and distance learning, allow access to information anytime and anywhere, even with mobile terminal devices. IT can be used in the learning process in several ways - starting from information delivery and ending with cognitive tools. Creating a modern learning environment is a challenge; it is far more than placing course material on the web. In addition, changes are needed in both pedagogical methods and students’ attitudes towards learning. The role of technology varies greatly in modern learning environments. There are on-line courses or degrees that are almost completely digital. However, in most cases courses are provided partly as traditional learning, partly as online education. This “blended mode” of education integrates new technology with older, proven teaching methods. Although there have been established distance learning networks as well as distance learning courses, the effectiveness of technology in any learning environment depends upon the degree that it supports the appropriate “pedagogical” dimensions. Another problem is that although many educationalists are experts in their subject area, they are relatively inexperienced yet in methods of online teaching and learning. Additionally, many students still lack information about the possibilities and distinctions of distance learning and not always explore every possible avenue. The article analyses the usage of information technologies in the study process at two higher education institutions: Kaunas University of Technology (344 respondents) and Vilnius Cooperative College (188 respondents). The research was carried out in 2011. The questionnaire method has been chosen for this purpose. The empirical research showed that respondents of both institutions mostly use IT for information search and preparation of oral and written assignments. The least popular reason of IT is for communication with professors and students. However, university students communicate about studies using IT more often than college students. Speaking about distance learning studies it was found that college respondents have less experience in distance studies than university students. This leads to different priorities: college students prefer to choose traditional studies, and university students give the priority to blended way of studies. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.em.17.4.3028

An Integrated Mobile Phone Payment System Based on 3G Network

Along with globally approaching of the 3G era, the progress of mobile communication technology and the development of mobile terminal devices will rapidly promote the mobilization development of traditional Ecommerce. In order to ensure it to achieve further development, secure, flexible and reliable mobile payment system is becoming more and more important. Compared with the payment pattern of ordinary commerce, there will be profound changes in the mobile payment, such as special payment channel, payment carrier and etc. After deep studying about previous payment methods and future 3G communication technology, this paper introduces a new mobile payment model by combining with IC chip, mobile phone and mobile internet, and then gives some improvement measures for current settlement mechanisms in the network transaction, which is entirely around payment channel, payment carrier, security authentication and other key issues in 3G environment. The real time processing of information flow, capital flow and logistics in mobile environment can be easily achieved, forming a complete and reliable business operation for mobile users, which can bring some great conveniences and profound influences for mobile payment industry.

Distributed speech translation technologies for multiparty multilingual communication

Developing a multilingual speech translation system requires efforts in constructing automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine translation (MT), and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) components for all possible source and target languages. If the numerous ASR, MT, and TTS systems for different language pairs developed independently in different parts of the world could be connected, multilingual speech translation systems for a multitude of language pairs could be achieved. Yet, there is currently no common, flexible framework that can provide an entire speech translation process by bringing together heterogeneous speech translation components. In this article we therefore propose a distributed architecture framework for multilingual speech translation in which all speech translation components are provided on distributed servers and cooperate over a network. This framework can facilitate the connection of different components and functions. To show the overall mechanism, we first present our state-of-the-art technologies for multilingual ASR, MT, and TTS components, and then describe how to combine those systems into the proposed network-based framework. The client applications are implemented on a handheld mobile terminal device, and all data exchanges among client users and spoken language technology servers are managed through a Web protocol. To support multiparty communication, an additional communication server is provided for simultaneously distributing the speech translation results from one user to multiple users. Field testing shows that the system is capable of realizing multiparty multilingual speech translation for real-time and location-independent communication.

Design and Implementation of Human-Computer Interaction Terminal Shockproof Device Based on LPC2478

With the extensive use of embedded mobile terminal in everyday life, embedded terminals are getting more and more powerful,but there is no significant improvement in shock proof and use protection.The paper introduces an implementation method of embedded mobile terminal shockproof device based on LPC2478. The device has wifi communication,multi-channel sampling, real-time measurement for temperature, humidity, horizontal and vertical conditions.It measures the device distances with other objects and triaxial acceleration to achieve parametric statistical analysis and diagnostics. Its characteristics of multipoint direction identification shock proof, wireless self-synchronous firmware upgrade and power management based on users’ action mode identification provide good protection for mobile terminal products, achieving the target of shockproof.

Design and Implementation of Human-Computer Interaction Terminal Shockproof Device Based on LPC2478

With the extensive use of embedded mobile terminal in everyday life, embedded terminals are getting more and more powerful,but there is no significant improvement in shock proof and use protection.The paper introduces an implementation method of embedded mobile terminal shockproof device based on LPC2478. The device has wifi communication,multi-channel sampling, real-time measurement for temperature, humidity, horizontal and vertical conditions.It measures the device distances with other objects and triaxial acceleration to achieve parametric statistical analysis and diagnostics. Its characteristics of multipoint direction identification shock proof, wireless self-synchronous firmware upgrade and power management based on users’ action mode identification provide good protection for mobile terminal products, achieving the target of shockproof.

An Integrated Mobile Phone Payment System Based on 3G Network

Along with globally approaching of the 3G era, the progress of mobile communication technology and the development of mobile terminal devices will rapidly promote the mobilization development of traditional E-commerce. In order to ensure it to achieve further development, secure, flexible and reliable mobile payment system is becoming more and more important. Compared with the payment pattern of ordinary commerce, there will be profound changes in the mobile payment, such as special payment channel, payment carrier and etc. After deep studying about previous payment methods and future 3G communication technology, this paper introduces a new mobile payment model by combining with IC chip, mobile phone and mobile internet, and then gives some improvement measures for current settlement mechanisms in the network transaction, which is entirely around payment channel, payment carrier, security authentication and other key issues in 3G environment. The real time processing of information flow, capital flow and logistics in mobile environment can be easily achieved, forming a complete and reliable business operation for mobile users, which can bring some great conveniences and profound influences for mobile payment industry.

Provable Data Possession of Resource-constrained Mobile Devices in Cloud Computing

Benefited from cloud storage services, users can save their cost of buying expensive storage and application servers, as well as deploying and maintaining applications. Meanwhile they lost the physical control of their data. So effective methods are needed to verify the correctness of the data stored at cloud servers, which are the research issues the Provable Data Possession (PDP) faced. The most important features in PDP are: 1) supporting for public, unlimited numbers of times of verification; 2) supporting for dynamic data update; 3) efficiency of storage space and computing. In mobile cloud computing, mobile end-users also need the PDP service. However, the computing workloads and storage burden of client in existing PDP schemes are too heavy to be directly used by the resource-constrained mobile devices. To solve this problem, with the integration of the trusted computing technology, this paper proposes a novel public PDP scheme, in which the trusted third-party agent (TPA) takes over most of the calculations from the mobile end-users. By using bilinear signature and Merkle hash tree (MHT), the scheme aggregates the verification tokens of the data file into one small signature to reduce communication and storage burden. MHT is also helpful to support dynamic data update. In our framework, the mobile terminal devices only need to generate some secret keys and random numbers with the help of trusted platform model (TPM) chips, and the needed computing workload and storage space is fit for mobile devices. Our scheme realizes provable secure storage service for resource-constrained mobile devices in mobile cloud computing.

Design of Wi-Fi based Mobile Game App for a Smart Phone

With the rapid growth of recent smart phone technology, the interests for the design of online game in mobile computing environment are highly focussed on with great attention. Smart phone as a mobile terminal device, however, has many restrictions for implementing online mobile game since the limitation of relatively low performance of a processor, low resolution of GUI, small memory spaces, and short battery power. Therefore, most of games are very restricted on online and multi-play functions. In this paper, we design and implement mobile online game app in component based smart phone environment in order to take over these restrictions in mobile environment. Especially, the implemented mobile game is able to play online game among Wi-Fi based game server and another smart phone.

On the Use of Home Node Bs for Emergency Telemedicine Applications in Various Indoor Environments

The use of emergency telemedicine applications at the site of a medical emergency event provides a multitude of benefits, both from the perspective of the patient and the emergency care providers. Innovations in rich multimedia telemedicine solutions further enhances the aforementioned benefits, but places more stringent quality-of-service demands on the underlying mobile networks. In this paper, the authors present a proposal for a complementary solution for rapid provisioning of mobile broadband data connectivity for emergency telemedicine applications in indoor environments. The proposed solution relies on the exploitation of existing femtocellular network resources available at emergency sites in various residential building types. Simulations carried out for a UMTS network environment demonstrate significant improvements in terms of achievable throughput for the emergency mobile terminal device when access to UMTS Home Node Bs available in the building is allowed for emergencies compared to macro Node B access only.

Speaker system, mobile terminal device, and electronic device

A speaker system includes a display panel for displaying an image; a transparent panel provided such that the image displayed in the display panel is viewed through the transparent panel; an electric-mechanical-acoustic-transducer having a diaphragm for outputting a sound by vibrating the diaphragm in accordance with an electric signal; and an acoustic signal transfer member for transferring the sound output from the electric-mechanical-acoustic-transducer to a space provided between the display panel and the transparent panel. The transparent panel is allowed to be vibrated by the sound transferred to the space from the electric-mechanical-acoustic-transducer via the acoustic signal transfer member.

Multifunction-type vibration actuator and mobile terminal device

[PROBLEMS] To provide a multi-function type oscillation actuator and a mobile terminal device capable of lowering the lowest acoustic resonance frequency and preventing a cut-off of a coil lead as well as improving acoustic characteristics and preventing sound leak. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A portion near to the outer circumference of a diaphragm (3) is bent to form a rising portion (3b) extending along an inner circumference (1a) of a housing (1) toward its open end. This rising portion (3b) serves as a corrugation to lower the lowest resonance frequency and the amplitude on the rising portion (3b) as a fulcrum is not large unlike the corrugation. Accordingly, the coil lead of a voice coil (4) is not broken easily. Furthermore, an extending portion (3c) is formed to extend along a flat surface (1b) formed at the open end of the housing (1) from the rising portion (3b) toward outside. This enlarges the entire radius of the diaphragm and improves the acoustic characteristic. Moreover, by arranging the flat surface (1b) of the housing (1) parallel to the extending portion (3c) of the diaphragm (3), a gasket or the like can easily be attached.

Mobile communications terminal device and method for identifying incoming call for use with the same

To provide a mobile communications terminal device that can identify an originator in a unit of group or a discriminating ringing by depending on the kind of an incoming identification tone without regard to a display, and acquire information designating the originator in accordance with an external specification. In a mobile communications terminal device 1 , if there is any matched data in a retrieval from a telephone directory, the call is informed with an incoming identification tone specified by the kind of a call incoming and a telephone directory of a memory 17 . If a switch is pressed on an operation section 11 , a ringing of incoming identification tone from a voice output section 13 is stopped, and the voice information converted from a character string registered in the telephone directory of the memory 17 is output from the voice output section 13.

Folding mobile terminal device capable of receiving and transmitting sound while folded

When an incoming call is received, a control unit confirms using an open/close sensor whether or not a mobile terminal device is in the close state. When the mobile terminal device is folded, the control unit establishes a communications state, changes the amplification rate of a first amplifier such that the reception signal can be output at the sound level predetermined as the level to be output from the receiver, changes the signal path so that the received voice can be output from the speaker by operating a switch, and changes the transmitted voice sensitivity by adjusting the amplification rate of a second amplifier so that the microphone can collect sound although it is separate from the mouse of the user, thereby realizing the conversation with the mobile terminal device folded.

The Diggi Awards: an ‘agent model’ for creative community-building

This is an interview with Jerry Wang CEO of Moli Media, a leading Chinese content aggregator. Moli Media is a leading Chinese media & entertainment provider for consumers and businesses in multiple media channels. Leveraging leading technologies and exclusive TV resources, Moli Media aggregates and distributes world-class content properties across digital TV, Internet/broadband, mobile and other terminal devices, as well as traditional outlets such as television.

PDA 지원 에이전트 컴포넌트 개발에 대한 연구

최근 무선인터넷의 중요성이 강조되면서 모바일 단말 장치는 모바일 비즈니스 프로세스에서 중요한 역할을 담당한다. 특히, 모바일 단말 장치는 차세대 기술인 임베디드와 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 주요 단말 장치이며 개발 대상이기도 하다. 또한, 모든 환경이 무선 인터넷 환경으로 이동되면서 무선 컴퓨팅 환경으로 도입하기 위한 서비스 기술에 많은 관심을 갖게 되었다. 그 중에서도 모바일 에이전트는 기존 인터넷 하부 구조상에 기능들을 전개하는 새로운 추상화 개념을 제공하며, 이러한 시스템은 융통성, 적용성, 확장성, 자율성 등을 요구하고 있다. 그러므로 이를 위해서는 새로운 소프트웨어 개발 방법론의 적용을 통해 해결하는 것이 중요하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 플러그 가능하고 독립성이 보장되는 조립 가능한 컴포넌트를 기반으로 에이젼트 아키텍처 모델을 작성한다 이러한 접근은 서블릿으로 컴포넌트 랩핑을 전개할 수 있으며, 이는 PDA 모바일 에이젼트를 개발하기 위한 모델과 컴포넌트에 대한 연구로 행해진다. In the focusing on the important of wireless internet, mobile terminal device plays a central role in tracking and coordinating terms in mobile business processing. Especially, mobile device has been considered as a key technology for embedded software and ubiquitous era. Because existing web environments is moving to wireless internet, the new concepts for wireless internet computing environments has gained increasing interest. Mobile agents provide a new abstraction for deploying over the existing infrastructures. Mobile application systems require the flexibility, adaptability, extensibility, and autonomous. New software developments methodology is required to meet the requirements. In this paper, we present an agent architectures model that allows compassable components with pluggable and independable. Our approach involves wrapping components inside a servlet. We have used the model and components to develop the PDA mobile agent.

Low-power system-on-chip architecture for wireless LANs

The authors present the architecture of a low-power system-on-chip (SoC) that implements baseband processing as well as the medium access control and data link control functionalities of a 5 GHz wireless system. The design is based on the HIPERLAN/2 wireless LAN standard, but it also covers critical processing requirements of the IEEE 802.11a standard. The options, constraints and motivations for the taken design decisions are presented, and the followed design steps, starting from the system specifications up to the architecture definition and the system implementation, are explained. The system's functionality covers both mobile terminal and access point devices. A critical design task in such systems is the assignment of the target system's tasks on the different types of processing elements available. Processor cores, dedicated hardware as well as memory elements and advanced bus architectures are used in order to achieve the target implementation. The architecture is targeted for a low-power SoC platform, due to the fact that power consumption is a critical parameter in electronic portable system design where excess power dissipation can lead to expensive and less reliable systems. A system prototype has been developed on a FPGA-based platform (including microprocessor modules). This FPGA-based prototype is currently being migrated to a SoC, which requires that the treatment of important issues such as clock handling, synthesis, testability and debugging is addressed.

Possibility of intuitive operation of mobile terminal device using shape and material

Possibility of intuitive operation of mobile terminal device using shape and material