Multimedia

• The first used application of multimedia is document image management. It is primarily intended for scanning documents and retaining their images.

• Another application is image processing. It is also known as Image recognition. It is intended for recognizing objects by analyzing their raster images.

• This application is used for automatic floor inspections and sorting of parts coming out of a manufacturing plant or for guiding robots performing specialized tasks.

The object management system must be capable of indexing, grouping and storing multimedia objects in distributed hierarchial optional storage systems, and accessing these objects on keyed basis.

The Design of the object management system should be capable indexing objects in such a manner that there is no need to maintain multiple storage copies

Full-motion Video has applications in the games industry and training, as well as the business world. Full motion video is the most complex and most demanding component of multimedia applications.

For business applications, some core requirements are needed:

• Full-motion video clips should be sharable but should have only one sharable copy
• It should be possible attach Full-motion video clips to other documents such as memos, chapter text, presentation, and so on.

In addition to textual messages, electronic mail capability allows embedding of voice messages and video messages. Video messages may consist of video snapshots or live video with full motion picture and sound. link

Two technological concepts at play in the implementation of full motion video messages:

1. The storage and transmitted of a very large volume of data at a high rate.
2. Decompression of that data to present a continuous playback.