Music distribution-compatible portable terminal and portable terminal

• US 20040047304A1
• Filed: 11/13/2002
• Published: 03/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishizuka, Toshiyuki, Takahashi, Nobuyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/221,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20040047304A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/72 of terrestrial networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/27 specially adapted for broadcast systems covered by groups H04H20/53 - H04H20/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4825 using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9206 the additional signal being a character code signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A first problem of the present invention is to improve an user-friendly operability when a portable type wireless terminal apparatus is used as a music-delivery-available portable type terminal apparatus. Also, a second problem of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal apparatus capable of displaying thereon image data related to music data.

To solve the above-described first problem, a music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus (1) connected via a network by way of a wireless manner to a music delivery server which stores there into compressed musical data, for downloading the musical data to reproduce the downloaded musical data, displays a download interrupted mark on a screen (2) in the case that the above-described downloading operation is interrupted. Also, the music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus (1) automatically performs the connection to the network by way of the wireless manner when the above-described downloading operation is interrupted so as to restart downloading operation of musical data after the interruption of the downloading operation from the music delivery server. As a result, a user can readily download target musical data without paying his attention to such a fact as to whether or not the downloading operation of the target musical data is accomplished.

Also, in order to solve the above-explained second problem, in a storage medium (18a) of a portable terminal apparatus (10), musical data (52), and both image data (54) and text data (56), which are related to this musical data (52), are downloaded to be stored. The image data (54) corresponds to a jacket image, an image of an artist, and an image of a sales advertisement, whereas the text data (56) corresponds to a music note and the like. A display unit (20) can display the image data (54) and the text data (56), which are attached to this musical data (52). Also, since the portable terminal apparatus (10) can automatically display the image data (54) and the text data (56) in conjunction with reproducing operation of the musical data (52), the user can confirm the image data (54) and the text data (56) while listens to music.

Claims

1. A music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus connected via a network by way of a wireless manner to a music delivery server storing compressed musical data, for downloading said musical data to reproduce the downloaded musical data, said music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus comprising:

display means for displaying a download interrupt mark in the case that said downloading operation of the musical data is interrupted.

2. A music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus connected via a network by way of a wireless manner to a music delivery server which stores thereinto compressed musical data, for downloading said musical data to reproduce the downloaded musical data, said music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus comprising:

means for automatically connecting said music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus to said network by way of said wireless manner in such a case that said downloading operation of the musical data is interrupted to restart downloading operation of remaining musical data after said downloading operation is interrupted from said music delivery server.

3. The music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

wherein, in the case that said interruption of the downloading operation happens to occur since the music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus is moved from a location inside a service area to another location outside the service area, said automatic connection to the network is automatically carried out when the music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus is entered from the location outside the service area to the location inside the service area so as to restart said downloading operation of the musical data from said music delivery server.

4. The music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

wherein, in the case that said interruption of the downloading operation happens to occur since a battery mounted thereon is depleted, said automatic connection to the network is automatically carried out while the battery is being charged, or after the battery has been charged to restart said downloading operation of the music delivery server.

5. The music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus as claimed in any one of claim 2 to claim 4, further comprising:

means for restarting downloading operation in a manual operation instead of said restarting of the downloading operation which is automatically carried out by said interruption of the downloading operation of the musical data.

6. A music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus connected via a network by way of a wireless manner to a music delivery server which stores thereinto compressed musical data, for downloading said musical data to reproduce the downloaded musical data, said music-delivery-available portable terminal apparatus comprising:

means for, when said interruption of the downloading operation of the musical data happens to occur since another site connected to said network is viewed while said musical data is downloaded, automatically restarting of downloading operation of a remaining part of said musical data within empty time of downloading said viewed data.

7. A portable terminal apparatus capable of reproducing or recording/reproducing musical data, comprising;

a storage unit which has stored both said musical data downloaded from a host server which constitutes a music delivery source, and image data which is related to said musical data downloaded in combination with said musical data;

a control unit for reading out said image data stored in said storage unit; and

a display unit for displaying thereon said image data read out from said control unit.

8. The portable terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein said control unit reads out said image data in conjunction with a reproduction of said musical data stored in said storage unit, and displays said read image data on said display unit.

9. The portable terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 7 or claim 8, further comprising:

a designation unit for, when said image data corresponds to a plurality of still image data, a plurality of moving picture data, or a mixture of still image data and moving picture data, designating said image data which is read out from said storage unit by said control unit.

10. The portable terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 9, said designation unit designates either one or a plurality of said image data.

11. The portable terminal apparatus as claimed in any one of claim 7 to claim 10, further comprising:

a selection unit operated in such a manner that when text data related to music such as a note of said musical data other than said image has been stored in said storage unit, said image data, or said text data is selectable,

wherein, in the case that said text data is selected in said selection unit, said control unit reads out said text data instead of said image data, and displays said read text data on said display unit.

12. The portable terminal apparatus as claimed in any one of claim 7 to claim 11, further comprising:

a reception unit for receiving both said musical data and said image data in a wireless manner,

wherein said control unit records both said musical data and said image data, which are received by said reception unit, on said storage unit.

13. The portable terminal apparatus as claimed in any one of claim 7 to claim 12,

wherein said storage unit is a storage medium which is detachably mounted with respect to said portable terminal apparatus.