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To: kinkblot who wrote (420)	6/4/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: Raymond T. Teruay	Respond to of 1820

Will, Thanks for your comments. I appreciate the knowledge and experience you bring to this forum. Some questions are emerging in my mind. 1. Motorola's web site stated that "With an eye toward the future, Motorola's breadth of technologies and experience in wireless communications opens possibilities FAR BEYOND TRADITIONAL camera design. [http://mot-sps.com/ADC/markets/Image_Capture/overview.html; emphasis added] 2. You wrote "Since they appear to be working closely with MOT, if they do decide to market a camera with a virtual viewer, they might be inclined to do it using MOT's VirtuoVue." 3. Is it possible and likely that one kind of non-traditional camera design will be as follows: A Motorola mobile phone with a VirtuoVue display, is wirelessly linked in real time via a Bluetooth kind of RF technology, with a very small image-capturing device and a very small image-storing device, so that the picture is viewed and controlled through VirtuoVue. In the view, is a tool bar that allows the operator of the mobile phone, through a "mouse" on the phone, to remotely control and adjust the image capturing device as well as the image storage device. In other words, this non-traditional camera design would involve breaking up the camera into its component parts, making a very small image-capturing device and a very small image-storing device merely accessories of a mobile phone with a VirtuoVue. The image capturing device may become smaller and smaller and cheaper and cheaper. Maybe even disposable! And perhaps, one mobile phone with VirtuoVue may have access to and control many image-capturing devices. Through the phone, the image-capturing device could be linked to the internet or to another person in a distant place. 4. If non-traditional design can break a camera apart, can non-traditional design shrink and break apart the mobile phone and also integrate into it not only the controls of a camera but also the smart card reader and the smart card chip itself? * Can all the keys and buttons and controls on the mobile phone go into a tool bar shown through a .24" CyberDisplay and thus be replaced by a "mouse" device on the phone (to click on tool icons) and with voice recognition software (to quickly enter non-preprogrammed phone numbers)? * Can a listening device, wirelessly connected to the mobile phone through Bluetooth, become small enough to fit comfortably within the ear? * Can the phone itself, including the mouse, microphone, and .24 " color CyberDisplay viewer, be housed in a pen or pen-like device that has a storage compartment for the small listening device or to which such a listening device can be readily attached? * Can a "contactless" smart card chip (Java chip for multiapplication and interoperability functions) be housed in the pen or pen-like device, integrated with the phone and CyberDisplay, and effectively used to make payments with electronic cash and via phone, or Bluetooth-computer-internet, to achieve access to and interaction with a distant secured data-base? If the above non-traditional designs are possible and make commercial sense, then mobile phone, camera, and smart-card reader will tend to converge into a device in which CyberDisplay plays a very integral part. Add an advance form of Lovegety incorporating multiple features only possible through the virtual view made possible by CyberDisplay and maybe this non-traditional product will become a success. An electronic device that facilitates human interaction outside the home and office. Your thoughts and comments will be appreciated.

To: kinkblot who wrote (420)	6/4/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Raymond T. Teruay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1820

To All: Excerpt from biz.yahoo.com. Galvin said, ''Motorola will focus on two powerful propositions going forward. First, Motorola will create the WINGS for businesses and consumers so they can take their worlds with them. Second, we will embed our ideas and technology along with our customers' in order to create everyday miracles. We call this DigitalDNA(TM) From Motorola. ''Through these propositions, we intend to gain market share in key businesses such as digital cellular telephones, where significant new products are planned for introduction before the end of the third quarter.... .................................................. Does anyone know whether these "significant new products" to be introduced before the end of the third quarter, involves VirtuoVue?

To: kinkblot who wrote (420)	6/25/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: Raymond T. Teruay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1820

To All:From pubs.cmpnet.com Story posted at 8 a.m. EDT/5 a.m. PDT, 6/25/98 Hyundai launches CMOS sensors SAN JOSE--Hyundai Electronics America here has rolled out a new series of integrated CMOS image sensors aimed at various digital imaging applications, including personal-computer cameras, digital still cameras, digital video cameras, security systems, and toys. The sensors are intended to offer system manufacturers a low-cost, low-power, and high-integration alternative compared to existing charged-coupled device (CCD) based sensors, said the U.S.-based subsidiary of South Korea's Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. Hyundai's CMOS image sensors includes HV7113A with CIF (400x300), HV7114A VGA (640x480), and HV7141A SVGA (800x600) resolution based on active high efficiency RGB color photo pixel technology. The sensors integrate 8-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADC) for direct digital output, pan and frame-rate control, various readout mode control, and automatic gain control (AGC) functions. Production is slated to begin in the third quarter. According to Hyundai, the devices will operate on a single 3.3-V power supply, and the will be housed in 20-pin ceramic DIP. The company is making reference design kits available now.