CELL REGZA™ User Interface Technologies and Super-Resolution Technology for Internet Video

The CELL REGZA 55X1 digital high-definition (HD) liquid crystal display (LCD) TV offers an intuitive user interface as well as super-resolution display of Internet video contents, making full use of the powerful capabilities of its Cell processor.

The main features of the newly developed technologies are as follows:

Metadata processing technology

Toshiba has developed an intuitive user interface called "Roaming Navi™" that helps users to find appropriate contents from among a large volume of recorded, on-the-air, and to-be-aired programs based on their relevance. Highly accurate relevance evaluation is performed using a metadata processing platform, which can store various types of metadata and provide search functionality. The platform is integrated with knowledge-processing modules to enrich the metadata and improve the accuracy of the relevance evaluation and search results.

Stroke recognition technology

Our newly developed stroke recognition technology processes strokes made by the trajectories of the user’s finger on a touchpad incorporated in the CELL REGZA’s remote controller, allowing the user to input handwritten text and gestures directly on the touchpad. This technology makes it possible to input keywords for content search, move the focus in the electronic program guide (EPG), and control the mouse pointer on Web pages much more easily and intuitively.

Super-resolution technology for Internet video

Up to now, users have not been fully satisfied with Internet video contents displayed on large-screen TV sets due to the occurrence of compression noise and lack of resolution. Our super-resolution technology improves the resolution of Internet video by reducing its compression noise, and reproduces a sharper, finer image in real time.

Example of "Roaming Navi" display