Information technology (IT) companies are making efforts to improve “Android,” Google Inc’s software for its open source project for mobile phones and other home information appliances, and the efforts were shown at the 12th Embedded Systems Expo, from which was held in Tokyo from May 13 to 15, 2009.
During the exhibition, ISB Corp showed video file playback and Website browsing on a reference board equipped with Texas Instruments Inc’s (TI) “OMAP3530″ at its booth. The video on the display looked as if it was being played frame by frame due to the small number of frames. But this was because all of the display processing was being carried out by software alone said.
ISB said the company expects to enable smooth playback of HDTV video in the future by enhancing the software so that the hardware can handle the display processing. The company also demonstrated wireless keyboard operation and music playback using its Android-based system that supports Bluetooth.
On that occasion, Fujitsu Software Technologies Ltd showed an Android-based digital photo frame, navigation system and digital signage device at its booth. The digital photo frame can switch images on the display via a network using the existing DLNA middleware ported to Android.
The navigation system was realized by using a network cloud service for map data and route computation, making the most of Android’s high affinity with networks. The company could prepared the demonstrated device in about two weeks. It is because the terminal side needed only an application to transmit data on starting points and destinations and to display the route guidance received from the server.
At the same time, Ubiquitous Corp demonstrated a recorded terrestrial digital broadcast program received from a DLNA server, incorporating DTCP-IP on Android. With a reference board equipped with TI’s “OMAP3,” only encrypted DTCP-IP data was decoded on Android, and video was decoded on different hardware. The playback of the data transmitted from a DLNA server was smooth.
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