February 14, 2007 Nihon Keizai Shimbun

New model mobile phones are good for moving pictures.
Nokia strengthened acceptability for YouTube
Motorola strengthened acceptability for broadcasting by satellite

In cellular phone trade fair "3GSM" held in Barcelona City in Spain, the cellular phone major company such as Nokia and Motorola come one after another and introduced a new model that improved the animation function of the television and the video reproduction, etc.- - - - -

Nokia - - - - It is said that seeing the television program of 50 channels or less by using a new animation delivery technology of "DVB-H" will become possible.

Motorola- - - - News and sports, etc for the cellular phone of BSkyB of the British satellite broadcasting company are seen in the maximum quality of more than 30 scenes per second which is equivalent to the televisions.

February 14, 2007 Nihon Keizai Shimbun

TV broadcasting for mobile phones
AT&T starts broadcasting for mobile phones

AT&T, the biggest business entrepreneur of the U.S. cellular phone (old Cingular Wireless) starts Television Broadcasting for the cellular phone within the year. Verizon Wireless, the 2nd place in the U.S. cellular phone, also will start similar service by March. The share of the two companies within the United States will be 60 percent. Television broadcasting for mobile phones seems to spread to the United Sates, following Japan and South Korea.

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Comment of the above-mentioned article

Many mobile phone companies in Japan such as E-access and Sony communications,KDDI,Softbank,Docomo announced the broadcasting service plan for mobile phone in 2005, but there is not much advancement in their activity since then.

The broadcasting services for mobile phone done in Japan are clipping cast, the content is updated every one hour or two hours by mainly using still pictures, and One Seg, 15 scenes per second which is less equivalent to television quality by using single channel. They are no match to the services planned in the United States of broadcasting for mobile phones by using 50 channels.

There should be various reasons why broadcasting services for mobile phones are not realized in Japan. The parties concerned should study how to solve the problem by fair and legal manner and not rely on unacceptable illegal manners which will damage the company reputation and discourage their office staff morale.

When the patent for broadcasting for mobile phone originally applied to the Patent Office, the following clause has been included.

“The patent covers broadcasting for mobile phone when mobile phone usage is low such as nighttime and early morning and the frequency band is available for broadcasting”

However, the Patent Office provided us with the patent applied documents which show the same condition, so we deleted this part.

The Japanese mobile phone companies are broadcasting their content one hour or two hours interval, we are not sure whether their services infringe our patent or not unless we get correct log details and ask specialists to study fully these documents.

On the other hand, we received a mobile phone company’s letter which clearly states “there is no infringement in our service”, we have no other way but to accept their insistence at this stage.