This paper presents a system for reading comics on cellular phones. It is necessary for comic images to be divided into frames and the contents such as speech text to be displayed at a comfortable reading size, since it is difficult to display highresolution images in a low resolution cellular phone environment. We have developed a scheme how to decompose comic images into constituent elements ...

Recent rapid development in mobile communication enables people being with cellular phone wherever they go. It is practical to enhance the functionality of cellular phone, and one is to boost consumerfriendly mobile transactions by replacing traditional credit card payment system. However, previous researches focus on the improvement of smartcard technology [1]. That means the handset must be u...

We present a graph-theoretic model for the frequency assignment problem in Cellular Phone Networks: Obeying several technical and legal restrictions, frequencies have to be assigned to transceivers so that interference is as small as possible. This optimization problem is NP-hard. Good approximation cannot be guaranteed, unless P = NP . We describe several assignment heuristics. These heuristic...

Initially, Internet protocols were not designed for mobility nor were they designed for handling real-time services. Recent research e orts on Mobile-IP and RSVP are aimed at providing these features in the Internet. However, additional support is needed to provide real-time services for moving users. One such real-time service for mobile users is the concept of an Internet Cellular Phone. An I...

Cellular phone technology is emerging as an important tool in the effort to provide advanced medical care to the majority of the world population currently without access to such care. In this study, we show that non-invasive electrical measurements and the use of classifier software can be combined with cellular phone technology to produce inexpensive tissue characterization. This concept was ...

—Researchers emphasize the importance of maintaining learning communities and environments. This article describes the building and nourishment of a learning community , one comprised of middle school students who learned mathematics out-of-class using the cellular phone. The building of the learning community was led by three third year pre-service teachers majoring in mathematics and computer...

Along with the ever increasing popularity of cellular phones, improving recognition accuracy in cellular phone speech has become an issue of growing concern. However, the distortion caused by current low-bit rate speech CODEC is nonlinear, so compensating for distortion by applying only a conventional CMN which assumes distortion is a stationary linear transfer on the cepstrum domain is di cult...

In this issue of WIDEXPress we will explain in some detail how the cellular telephone systems work, why they produce the interference and what is being done about it. Apart from our own research, this survey also relies on research made at National Acoustical Laboratories (NAL) in Australia, by the European Hearing Instrument Manufacturers’ Association (EHIMA) in Europe, and at the University o...

This study aims to identify cellular phone users’ shopping motivating factors towards online shopping. 100 university students located in Klang Valley, Malaysia were involved as the respondents. They were required to complete a set of questionnaire and had to own a cellular phone in order to be selected as sample in this study. Three from five proposed hypotheses were supported: purchasing info...