Nov. 10, 2006 (Tokyo, Japan)—Acrodea, Inc. has delivered its VIVID UI user interface platform for mobile telephones as an underlying technology implemented in the "Kisekae Tool" service for NTT DoCoMo.
VIVID UI handles media in various video and image formats enabling superior user interfaces demanded in the mobile telephones of today. Additionally, Acrodea provides VIVID UI Workshop, a set of authoring tools for efficient user interface development. VIVID UI Workshop features a separate development track for UI logic and design, allowing the production of versatile user interfaces.
NTT DoCoMo's new "Kisekae Tool" service employs VIVID UI Workshop as the authoring tool to ease the creation of user interface content. A number of 903i Series handsets have also adopted the VIVID UI engine as the UI platform with full compatibility to VIVID UI Workshop. This enables sophisticated UI customization with movies and multimedia running on the VIVID UI engine. Acrodea's exceptional user interface customization technology is proven to be a flexible solution that is expected to also reach beyond the Japanese markets.
Acrodea, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a software company focused on middleware technologies for mobile terminals. The company is particularly concentrating on interface technologies connecting the user and terminal, and currently provides user interface and messaging enhancement technologies to the market. Acrodea’s efforts are a continual commitment to superior products and improving technology, for which the company has received worldwide recognition. In addition to Japan and Korea, Acrodea is engaged in business on a global scale, including China, Europe, and North America. The company listed publicly on Mothers Exchange of TSE on Oct. 19, 2006, just two years and three months after establishment. For more information,
please visit http://www.acrodea.co.jp.
A user interface platform, VIVID UI consists of middleware that integrates and accommodates a variety of multimedia content. VIVID UI is an engine for mobile telephone terminals, and has the capability of running attractive GUIs (graphic user interfaces) that include 3D graphics, animation, and movies. VIVID UI opens up previously untapped markets for GUI content, and eases the GUI creation process.
For details on Kisekae Tool, please refer to the following URL at the NTT DoCoMo website: http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/service/imode/content/kisekae/
Attn.: IR and PR Desk, Acrodea, Inc.
Telephone: +81 3 5798 4885
Email: ir@acrodea.co.jp
The above is an English translation from Japanese and in an unlikely case of any discrepancies, the original Japanese shall prevail.
