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Multimedia Broadcasting, Inc had an interesting installation at CEATEC 2009, where it was presenting an user interface concept that uses people's body motion.

Hundreds of pictures were shown on an interactive wall, and would get magnified every time they were intersecting with a visitor's body. People's silhouettes were being captured by a camera placed in the upper right corner.

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Multimedia Broadcasting, or MMBI was cofounded in 2006 by a consortium of Japanese companies interested in the future of digital mobile television, some of the best known being NTT Docomo, SKY Perfect, Nippon Broadcasting System and Fuji TV.

With the end of analog TV broadcasting in 2011, its primary mission has been to plan the reallocation of these frequencies to mobile multimedia broadcasting, as well as to perform research for new possible services built around its ISDB-Tmm standard. Current Japanese mobile phones can use a subset of the digital terrestrial television spectrum, but in July 2011 this is all going to change and mobile TV users should expect to be offered a whole new range of multimedia services.