NTT, Panasonic tie up for innovative visual communication

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) and Panasonic Corp have agreed to enter into a business alliance with the aim of achieving “visual service innovations” and “evolution of user experience” toward 2020 and beyond.

A wide variety of initiatives are currently being promoted both by the public and private sectors in Japan with a view to developing and improving various services toward 2020. The most urgent among them include providing quality services and hospitality to visitors from around the world as the number of foreign tourists is expected to continue to rise. There is also a pressing need to develop services that support a society where the physically challenged and elderly feel safe and secure. Against this backdrop, the collaboration between NTT and Panasonic aims to share their technologies to develop new services for the foreseeable future that realizes “visual service innovations” and “evolution of user experience.”

Specifically, the two companies will develop and propose standard models for new visual communication by combining NTT’s expertise in broadband solutions and Panasonic’s capability in providing high-definition visual solutions. Major areas of collaboration under the agreement include the following:

(1) Visual entertainmentnNTT and Panasonic will leverage their combined strengths in high-definition AV devices/systems and broadband services to offer functionality that allows, for example, spectators at a stadium to enjoy their preferred video contents, as well as that delivers immersive images throughout Japan and abroad. The companies aim to apply these synergy effects not only to stadiums but also to a variety of visual entertainment business segments.

(2) Security & safetynThe two companies will provide assistance to help ensure a secure and safe living environment with their visual monitoring systems and cyber security technologies. The partners will also make efforts to create a society that is friendly to everyone including foreign visitors and senior citizens by offering services that deliver necessary information on demand.