Mobile Labs Sweden AB Introduces v-rocs for Indic Scripts
(PRWeb) February 14, 2007 -- Mobile Labs today introduces an advanced text layout solution optimized for embedding into mobile phones, currently supporting a range of Indic scripts.
v-rocs is a unique new language rendering solution for optimized use in mobile and embedded devices. The primary focus is mobile phones, but v-rocs can also be used in e.g. portable media players, portable game consoles, industry automation etc.
It consists of a generic core and optimized language modules with in-house designed bitmap fonts in different sizes, this minimizes the code size and facilitates the addition of more languages as plug-in modules, without affecting the base integration of v-rocs and also minimizing the need for retesting already deployed languages.
This release covers a ready-to-go combination of the v-rocs core and a range of language modules for Indic scripts. Currently available such modules are for Hindi/Devanagari, Bengali and Telugu, but also other popular Indic scripts are in the works. These modules have been designed and verified by language experts from India. The language modules consist of language logic, text placement, font management and associated bitmap fonts. It is also possible to interface them with an external font manager.
v-rocs is optimal for complementing existing text layout solutions with support for Indic scripts, by being easy to plug in to existing functionality. v-rocs core is designed to be able to handle any simple or complex script in the future.
More language modules (including non-Indic) and more fonts can be developed on request.
"India is a super hot mobile phone market, that doubled the amount of subscribers during 2006 to 150 million, and where the Indian government expects this figure to be close to 500 million by 2010", says Anders Borg, CEO of Mobile Labs Sweden AB. "We hope this offering will help both established and new mobile phone providers to quickly take on the India market", he concludes.
Generic features of v-rocs
* A text rendering product aimed at mass market mobile and embedded devices
* An intelligent display solution and language support for worldwide markets with emphasis on complex scripts, as used in e.g. India
* Generic solution with the potential to support any language
* Minimal memory footprint and high efficiency for also very low-cost devices
* Highly optimized code, lookup tables and fonts
* Performance-oriented
* Conformant to Unicode Standard 4.0
* Well-defined and easy-to-use APIs
* Easily integrated on any target environment supporting C applications
* Handles insertion and deletion of text
* Can be easily integrated with text input solutions such as predictive text (e.g. Tegic T9, Zi Corp eZiText), multitap, editors etc
* Reference and made-on-order customized fonts for complex scripts
About Mobile Labs Sweden AB
Mobile Labs Sweden AB is based in Lund Sweden, a "telecom valley" in the southern part of Sweden, where also Sony Ericsson and Ericsson Mobile Platforms have their principal development labs. Mobile Labs focuses on development of software for embedded and mobile devices, and has long experience and expertise in the field of developing optimized software solutions for mobile phones, and specifically such for language solutions.
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