ITU Workshop on Making Media Accessible to all:
the options and the economics
(Geneva, Switzerland, 25 October 2013 )
-Successful Access services for IPTVYushi Naito/Masahito Kawamori
ITU-T Study Group 16
&
ITU-T IPTV-Global Standards Initiative
Topics
Brief Introduction to ITU-T IPTV
ITU-T Compliant TV set
IPTV as Accessible User Interface
ITU-T IPTV Terminals available in market
ITU-T IPTV for Accessibility
Conclusion
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The ITU
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
ITU Secretary-General
Hamadoun
Touré
UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
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United Nations agency for
telecommunication and ICTs
Members:
193 Governments and
regulatory bodies
700 Private Sector
20 Academia
Developing standards for ICT
IPTV Value Chain
ITU-T IPTV standards cover all IPTV value chain
End-to-end solution
Interact
with
content
Discover and
acquire
service
End-user
Deliver Content
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Network
Provider
Service
Provider
Monitor and
Manage service
Announce
and
advertise
service
Content
Provider
Content
Provisioning
ITU-T H.721
Standardized Managed Smart IPTV
Power cable
Ether cable for
IP connection
World’s first standard
for “connected TV”,
support managed
“smart TV”.
Wireless devices are
also provided, for
easier access
Multiple remote
service providers can
provide managed IPTV
services on any of
these standardized
terminals
Interactivity for
“smart” app is
provided by H.762
ITU-T IPTV Terminals available in market
ITU compliant IPTV sets are already available in the market
E.g., Over 2 million terminals from different manufacturers in Japan
Customer can buy this TV at a shop, connect to network, and
receive an IPTV service
Accessibility features are easily supported by these TV
STB
Connected TV
PC
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IPTV as Accessible User Interface for all
Human Interface is the Key for
Accessibility
Human Interface Persists
E.g: Keyboard has a long history since the
days of typewriter
TV is a Universal Human Interface that
helps people acceptable to Information
and Opportunity
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TV set as Universal Interface
Since its introduction, familiar to both Young and
Old
Accessible to a wide range of population, without
special training
It is the universal user interface for various
services
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IPTV and Accessibility for all
In the recent years,
South Korean dramas
became popular in Japan
This popularity is partly
attributed to closed
captions and subtitles
these dramas often have,
and the elder people
were attracted to these
dramas because of
accessibility
The elderly is similar to
Person With Disability in
many respects
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ITU-T IPTV for Accessibility
ITU-T’s standardized IPTV has been already widely
deployed in the market
It is expected that ITU-T IPTV will provide better
chances for accessible media services
It has been demonstrated the effectiveness of IPTVbased accessibility on several occasions
A test service dedicated to Accessibility, using ITU-T
IPTV, is being conducted (“Listen with your Eyes
IPTV”)
Collaboration with relevant organizations (WFD,
WHO, etc.)
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IPTV Accessibility Experiments
Feb. 2013: IPTV delivery transcontinental (JapanGeneva-Manila-Singapore) experiment at the
Sapporo Snow Festival with multilingual captioning
(multi-location with multi-source content)
April 2013: IPTV Accessibility demo at Kaleidoscope
Event, an ITU-T’s academic event, in Kyoto, Japan
June 2013: live multicasting delivery of the Annual
Conference of Japan Federation of the Deaf.
September 2013: Start of “Listen with your Eyes
IPTV” test service (live streaming, scheduled
programming, and VOD)
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Accessibility service Portal on IPTV
A test service dedicated to Accessibility, using ITU-T
IPTV, is being conducted (“Listen with your Eyes
IPTV”) to provide 100% closed captioning to various
program
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Delivery of IPTV content with
integrated closed-captions
ITU-T IPTV was the basis of transcontinental
provisioning of closed caption (from multiple
locations in Japan
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Multiple Protocol Delivery Of Special
Programs for PWD
ITU-T IPTV was used to deliver live content from the
Annual Conference of JFD, to various locations in Japan
Delivered IPTV program for the
Deaf
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PWD watching IPTV programs with
captioning
The Rehabilitation and Treatment Center
for People with Hearing and Speech
Disorders, Kyoto
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IPTV Application for Accessibility
ITU-T IPTV is used for various accessibility services,
including accessible education
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Conclusion
IPTV can provide accessible Interface to many
services
ITU-T’s IPTV is already widely available, and
is being used for various testbeds as well as
test services
ITU-T’s IPTV and its work on Media
Accessibility is the key for reaching the Media
Have-Nots of the Developed and Developing
Worlds
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