April 14, 2009 (Tokyo, Japan)—Acrodea, Inc. (CEO and President: Junya Tsutsumi), headquartered in Meguro-ku, Tokyo has completed VIVID UI Effect Framework in cooperation with HI Corporation (CEO and President： Kazuo Kawabata), headquartered in Meguro-ku, Tokyo.
VIVID UI Effect Framework is offered as a framework of optional features to VIVID UI®, such as high-speed rendering that leverages hardware capability on a mobile terminal and screen effects that use 2D and 3D graphics functionality. Up until now, the attainment of complicated screen transition effects has required sophisticated knowledge, such as script coding, and much time on the part of user interface (UI) designers. VIVID UI Effect Framework, however, provides a standard selection of various types of effects. Their selection and combination results in simple embedding of superior screen transition effects to UI in a much shorter amount of time. The resulting application development for mobile terminals can deliver a high-quality user experience. HI Corporation has provided a portion of the effects deployed in the current VIVID UI Effect Framework. Sophisticated 3D rendering with HI’s MascotCapsule®** generated outstanding expressions for those effects.
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MascotCapsule is a series of real-time 3D rendering engines that operates across a wide range of devices, including mobile phones, for processing of 3D graphics in real time for applications. Consisting of seven implementation options—V1 through V4, nano, eruption, and Renderion, the various engines complement the hardware execution environment without relying on the underlying operating system, and render 3D graphics vastly more intriguing than 2D, regardless of constraints in processor resources.
Acrodea, Inc., is a software technology R&D firm involved in middleware technology for mobile terminals. The company is particularly focused on interface technologies connecting between the user and terminal, and currently provides UI (user interface) technologies and email enhancement technologies to the market. We are also applying R&D energy towards the enhancement of graphics performance, which is indispensable in facilitating usage of mobile platform interfaces. Our stance and efforts are a continual commitment to superior products and improving technology, for which we have received recognition worldwide. In addition to Japan and Korea, Acrodea is engaged in business on the global market, including China, Europe, and North America. Listed on the Mothers Market (Code: 3823, TSE), Acrodea is headquartered in Tokyo, and maintains an overseas presence in Seoul, Korea; Helsinki, Finland; and Newport Beach, California, U.S.A. For more information, please visit http://www.acrodea.co.jp.
HI Corporation leads the market for embedded middleware as an R&D firm. The company’s core product is MascotCapsule, a real-time 3D rendering engine adopted by five mobile operators in Japan, and among operators and handset makers engaged in the U.S., Korea, China, and other countries. As of March 31, 2009, global licensing agreements signed with domestic and major overseas mobile phone manufacturers have implemented MascotCapsule in over 400 million handsets shipped worldwide (cumulative). MascotCapsule’s benefit has extended broadly to diverse 3D content uncompromised in quality compared to console games, as well as to user interfaces incorporating 3D graphics. HI Corporation is listed on JASDAQ (Code: 3846) with overseas offices in the U.S., Korea, and Singapore. For more information, please visit http://www.hicorp.co.jp/.
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