Portable communication apparatus

• US 20010055981A1
• Filed: 04/17/2001
• Published: 12/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iima, Shin, Kanemaki, Hirofumi
• Application Number:
  US09/836,051
• Publication Number:
  US 20010055981A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files

Abstract

A portable communication apparatus comprising a communication means for making a call and receiving an audio signal distributed from a server by a digital wireless system, a recording means for recording the audio signal received by the communication means, a reproduction means for reproducing the audio signal read from the recording means, and an output means for output in accordance with the reproduced audio signal.

Claims

1. A portable communication apparatus, comprising:

a communication means for making a call and receiving an audio signal distributed from a server by a digital wireless system,

a recording means for recording the audio signal received by the communication means,

a reproduction means for reproducing the audio signal read from the recording means, and

an output means for output in accordance with the reproduced audio signal.

2. A portable communication apparatus as set forth in the

claim 1

, wherein

the reproduction means is able to perform stereo reproduction of the audio signal read from the recording means, and

the output means performs stereo output in response to the audio signal.

3. A portable communication apparatus as set forth in the

claim 1

, wherein the recording means is inserted in the portable communication apparatus in a removable manner.

4. A portable communication apparatus as set forth in the

claim 1

, wherein

the reproduction means is able to perform stereo reproduction of an audio signal read from the recording means, and

the output means outputs the stereo reproduced audio signal from a connection terminal to which a stereo headphone may be connected.

5. A portable communication apparatus comprising:

a communication means for making a call and receiving a streaming file distributed from a server by a digital wireless system,

a recording means for recording audio data in a streaming file received by the communication means,

a reproduction means for restoring an audio signal from the audio data read from the recording means and reproducing the restored audio signal, and

an output means for output in accordance with the reproduced audio signal.