Towards the Realisation of an lnteractive Mobile

Personal communication systems of the future will augment the mobile phone concept to include multimedia services such as: digitised speech, data, e-mail, paging, fax, GPS, still image compression, compressed/slow scan video and eventually real-time video. The many potential applications for this technology include use of mobiìe telecommunications in areas of teleprescence such as telemedicine, teleworking, telebanking, teleshopping, teleconferencing, personal communication/navigation, and tele-education. This range of services will lead to the development of interactive mobile multimedia personal communicators (IM3PCs) that require the integration of many sub-systems including real-time image and signal processors, computer vision, RF communications links, and high-speed networks. These systems demand very high speed processing, small physical size and low power consurnption and in the next five years demand for such a combination of processor attributes will increase.