Multimedia - Electronic technical manual for ATE

This paper describes research related to the development Of fast compression and playback routines for full screen, full motion color video and audio suitable for use on the IFTE Soldier Portable On-line Repair Tool ((SPORT). This multimedia capability can be included as part of an interactive electronic technical manual (IETM), or incorporated into automatic test equipment (ATE) executive and test program set (TPS) application software. The technical innovations required to achieve the requisite high compression ratio, while still preserving good image quality needed far use in ATE applications is described. The benefits of this capability for use in maintenance training, unit under test (UTT) setup and connection. and diagnostic procedures will also be discussed. In addition, we will describe methods that can be used to distribute and update multimedia sequences in deployed systems.