A network library system

The network library system entails the creation of a new multimedia service by integrating various media servers and processing engines. The system not only realizes a library environment that can search and display flexibly and rapidly HiFi music, video, and super-high-definition images (SHD) from general-purpose browsers, but also can flexibly combine multiple media from the client terminal and present the display output according to a scenario. In other words, three functions are realized by utilizing broadband networks and Internet technology, namely, multiple access to media servers, collaboration of engines such as translation and voice output, and multimedia information search. By the proposed system, the integration of media as well as real-time information output are realized, presenting a multimedia library service based on a new concept oriented toward information communication services in the next century. © 2000 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 1, 84(4): 78–90, 2001