SUMMARY

Progress of recent digital signal processors for Personal Digital Advisor (PDA) as well as cell phones will soon overrun the requirements of today's applications. With these residual processing capabilities, we should introduce more useful applications. One of such applications is to make a PDA an adviser: from Personal Digital Assistance to Personal Digital Adviser which tells you what you do not understand or recognize, by introducing novel recognition schemes. The schemes belong to a class of modifying registered images, where the matching process is carried out between an input image and a set of regenerated images from registered DB. Although these approaches greatly improve performance, the regeneration of images in real time requires TOPS processing. Judging from our experience, however, such a consumer LSI device may appear within this decade. This talk explains these issues in more detail.