Itsuro Yoshimoto

New Business Strategist

Aug 14 2014

FIO Technology Inc.

Founder, Itsuro Yoshimoto

iyoshi@fiotechnology.com

Phone: 1(408)315-4187

HMI Solution : FIO-PAD in IoT era

FIO offers Flexible Indoor and Outdoor New UI/UX experience for small IoT devices

Summary

FIO solves;

partner to make FIO-PAD featured IoT devices

HMI (UI/UX) issues for small IoT devices

FIO offers;

FIO-PAD featured fancy HMI accessory device idea

FIO expects;

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FIO_PAD accessory

Product Concept-01

Fancy pendant type HMI module

How to use it?

Attach FIO-PAD to the steering wheel

and control with a single thumb without

releasing a hand

Secondary commander to support voice

input with 100% accuracy

Control in-Car display units

Fancy Car-Key (future)

Wireless

communication

with smart devices

Controls tablet & smartphone

Are you satisfied with the accuracy of the current voice input technology ?

Introduction of FIO-PAD

• Single thumb control without

releasing a hand from the steering

wheel

• Achieves 100% accurate voice

commands with a voice affirmation

control while driving

• Achieve full QWERTY keyboard

input within 35mm x 35mm limited

space while parking40mm x 40mm

FIO-PAD provides 100% accurate HMI for IVI control

Voice affirmationVoice affirmation

45Φmm

releasePress slide

5

FIO_PAD TOP View

How it works (1)

Click-Touch Panel

FIO_PAD active switches

32 physical switches under surface

flick surface & generates command

SIZE {45mm[Φ] round ; 5mm[h]

FIO-PAD Click-Touch Panel

Single Thumb control (Click, Move & Release)

SIZE {45mm[Φ] round ; 5mm[h]

FIO-PAD Click-Touch Panel

Single Thumb control (Click, Move & Release)

32 physical switches beneath surface

flick surface & generates command

SIZE {45mm[Φ] round ; 5mm[h]

FIO-PAD Click-Touch Panel

Single Thumb control (Click, Move & Release)

5 Original Area 9 Original Area

Command operations

How it works (2)

Application defines the command area

Single Thumb operation ( MENU selection, 4 or 9 direct commands, flicking operations )

Confirm with voice affirmation application from smartphone, Tablet or car display unit

Command (Call) Name

LIFO Command operations (While driving)

How it works (3)

1. Command { Click & listen… Car/ smart device will talk back to you the LIFO command }

2. Moving around a thumb until you hear your target command & release to activate command

3. Name { Click & scroll to listen the first Alphabet & hold to listen names & release to activate

LIFO (Last In First Out)

11 unique input / line

How it works (4)

Parking Mode (w/ monitor screen)

SIZE {45mm[Φ] round ; 5mm[h] 6 switches in a row generates 11 unique letters

Both 2nd & 3rd switches pressed generate “R”

Monitor screen ( Car display device )

R

50-year-old person broke a world record of fast text entry

18-year old student holds world record of 41.4 Sec

160 characters with over 350 multi-taps required =

8~9 times / sec.

FIO-KeyBO required

ONLY 4~5 times / sec to

beat this world record.

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Demo-1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-5CmWSwQx0

Mobile phone version demo

SMK introduced FIO-KeyBO featured remote controller for future IPTV at CES & the CableSHOW

New remote controller for Digital STB

IPTV Remote controller version

Quick content search

Combine the benefit of 10 keys & QWERTY keyboard

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Demo-2

FIO-KeyBO patent has been filed to US, JP, KR, CN, IN & EU

The invention of this application is concerned with how one can emulate thelayout of a QWERTY keyboard, i.e. one with a conventional keyboard layoutdesigned for use with ten fingers, using a telephone keypad or remotecontroller having three columns and four rows. It has previously beenproposed to use one key to select more than one character but even if eachkey can select three alphanumeric characters, that still only allows for ninecharacters per row, whereas a QWERTY keyboard requires eleven.

The solution offered by the invention is to place characters between keys and torequire two adjacent keys to be depressed simultaneously in order to recorda keystroke. Nowhere in the prior art has it been suggested to use the tip ofone finger to press two keys simultaneously. Shift, Alt and Ctrl keys on akeyboard are actuated at the same time as other keys but not using the tipof the same finger, indeed not even using two fingers of the same hand.

The invention offers for the first time, the possibility of one finger text entryusing a keypad having the layout of a conventional telephone while allowingthe operator to find all the characters intuitively in the same relativepositions as they would occupy on a conventional ten-finger keyboard.Neither this objective, nor the method by which it has been achieved, issuggested by the prior art. .

Patent Application

Comments from European Patent Attorney, Alec Messulam:

Other Potential Market

New Remote for (IPTV + STB)… 360 million units / 2013

The global IPTV subscriber base totaled around 92.7 million in the end of 2013, up 23.7% year-on-year. Asia Pacific has become the largest IPTV subscriber market in the world, boasting 45.6 million subscribers, which translates into 49.2% of the global market.(Researchmoz.US)

266M digital set-top boxes will be shipped in 2013, up 5.8 per cent on the 252M STBs shipped in 2012(IHS Technology)

1. BT external keyboard for touch-panel devices such as ipad or tabletPC

2. BT PC mouse controll

3. BT Presentation controller with LED pointer and unique realtime text adding feature

4. Remote controller

Single hand operation

Multifunctional accessory device with FIO-PAD

New Accessory keyboard

- Another potential form factor of FIO-PAD -

Exit through M&A by Nuance

Licensing business

a). Car accessory market

b). Remote controller at home

Application development & sales

FIO-PAD applications

Hardware development & sales

FIO-PAD click-Touch accessory

< BT HMI device >

Hardware development & IP licensing, and aim exit through M&A

Goal…Make FIO-PAD as a de-facto HMI solution for small IoT devices

Initially create BT accessory HMI device

Business Model

Licensing to ;

a). Car manufacturers & Tier-1 players

b). Tier-1 remote controller supplier

for IPTV ($0.05~$0.10)/device

Initially, develop 10K units

Revenue... ($79~$99)/device

Step

Jump

Initially, develop 10K units

Revenue... ($79~$99)/device

$200mil+

Hop

Itsuro Yoshimoto founded FIO Technology Inc in 2006, formerly Yoshimoto Inc. He filed FIO-

KeyBO related patents to PCT and 6 regions (US, JP, KR, CN, IN, EU). Prior to Yoshimoto

Inc, he led a web and mobile content division in US operations at Namco. He established a

profitable wireless game business foundation in North America for Namco by managing five

Independent Software Vendors. Most recently, He worked at the Pioneer Advanced Solution

Inc. as a consultant & VP, Product and Business Planning .

Yoshimoto started his career at CASIO. He designed software for the Digital Audio Tape recorder

(DAT). He mainly worked as an embedded software engineer for 11 years and developed

many new products. He also worked as a product planner for an additional 2 years. Then,

he moved to CASIO US R&D center in San Jose for an additional 5 years to develop multi-

application CD-ROMs for Windows CE based handheld PC and Pocket PC, and researched

new technology trends. He invented many patents. .

Yoshimoto majored in acoustic design at Kyusyu Institute of Design, Japan.

MBA from Kenichi Ohmae graduate school of business.

FounderAbout Me

Tsuyoshi Taira is the CEO of Tazan International Inc, a Venture Capital and ManagementConsultancy Firm. Mr. Taira has been involved with a number of Silicon Valley startup companiesas founding investor/director including Atmel Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ATML), Pico PowerTechnology Inc (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Junglee Corporation (acquired by Amazon.com,NASDAQ: AMZN), Armedia (acquired by Broadcom, NASDAQ: BRCM), Apptivity (acquired byProgress Software, NASDAQ: PRGS) and many others. He has been instrumental in providingseed stage financing, management and marketing advice, especially f or the Far Eastern marketto the startup companies. Currently he serves on the boards of Silicon Storage Technology Inc.(flash memory company), Nayna Networks, Inc. (networking products and services),Ureach.Com (unified e-mail and voice mail messaging company), Asia-Links Media(Semiconductor components e-commerce) and Teleweb (Call Center in China). In addition, he ison the advisory board of Silicon Motion (Graphic Controller IC), CLCEO (Polarizer), Reveo(Revolutionary Electro Optics Technology Company) and several other companies.

Previously, Mr. Taira was Chairman of Sanyo Semiconductor directingSanyo’s US marketing strategy. Most of his career was spent at SanyoCorporation except for five years when he worked at FairchildSemiconductor. Mr. Taira graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Universitywith a BSEE. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Humanities fromNewport Asia Pacific University in March 2000. He has published anumber of books including “Audio Amplifier”, “Transistor physics Andapplication” as a Co-author and most recently a book on entrepreneurship,“My fellow engineer, let’s challenge” from Nikkei BP .

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