Video/audio media player supporting various flash memory cards

• US 20030172209A1
• Filed: 08/12/2002
• Published: 09/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Carry Computer Engineering Co Ltd
• Original Assignee: Carry Computer Engineering Co Ltd
• Inventors: Chen, Chia-Li, Liu, Wen-Tsung
• Application Number:
  US10/216,614
• Publication Number:
  US 20030172209A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/62
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0607 by facilitating the process of upgrading existing storage systems, e.g. for improving compatibility between host and storage device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0655 Vertical data movement, i.e. input-output transfer; data movement between one or more hosts and one or more storage devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0679 Non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/08 from or to individual record carriers, e.g. punched card , memory card, integrated circuit [IC] card or smart card

Abstract

A video/audio media player supports various flash memory cards, and includes several flash memory card sockets, a digital signal processor, a microprocessor, a transfer interface, a video encoding unit, and an audio decoding unit to access various flash memory cards. It supports USB and 1394 interfaces, and can be independently used in HDTVs, PCs, or Hi-Fi Systems for video steam encoding/decoding, digital/analog data conversion, etc. It enhances the interoperability of flash memory cards and brings convenience to video/audio data transfer.

Claims

1. A video/audio media player supporting various flash memory cards, comprising:

a CF Card Socket;

receiving a CF Card;

a combined socket, identifying/accessing multi flash memory cards inserted;

a microprocessor, supporting the flash memory cards in the combined socket to identify the system interface (CF Interface or IDE Interface) so that if a CF interface is detected, the arbitration switch will switch to the microprocessor so as to control the data exchange between the CF Card and the CF transfer interface and if an IDE Interface is detected, the arbitration switch will switch to the DSP so as to serve as the controller;

a Video Encoding Unit, being connected to the DSP and receiving video signals to output analog video/audio signals; and

an audio decoding unit, being connected to the DSP and receiving audio signals to output analog audio signals.

2. The video/audio media player supporting various flash memory cards as defined in claim 1, wherein the DSP includes a cache (SDRAM) unit and a Flash unit and the cache (SDRAM) stores digital data for the DSP to access so as to improve the efficacy of DSP (10) such that the flash unit stores the program for controlling the DSP.

3. The video/audio media player supporting various flash memory cards as defined in claim 1, wherein the transfer interface integrates the USB 1.1/2.0, IEEE 1394a/b, and IDE interfaces, i.e., when any of above interface is used, the media player will identify it at once and switch to the corresponding processor to exchange data with the transfer interface;

and on the contrary, when the transfer interface is not used, the media player will access the data in above flash memory cards via the DSP.

4. The video/audio media player supporting various flash memory cards as defined in claim 1, wherein the CF Card may be a CF TYPE I, CF TYPE 2, or Micro Drive cards.

5. The video/audio media player supporting various flash memory cards as claim 1, wherein the combined socket can host MS/SD/MMC/SM Cards.

6. The video/audio media player supporting various flash memory cards as defined in claim 1, wherein the analog video signal includes JPEG, MPEG 1, and MPEG2 formats of data.

7. The video/audio media player supporting various flash memory cards as defined in claim 1, wherein the analog audio signal include MP3 and CD formats.