Moving-image playback device for mobile use

• US 20050191028A1
• Filed: 07/16/2004
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Matsunobu, Yutaka, Ito, Tamotsu, Matsuda, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US10/892,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20050191028A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/277
• 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 21/4341 Demultiplexing of audio and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/63 Generation or supply of power specially adapted for television receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

A moving-image playback terminal for mobile use includes a storage unit, a control unit, a video decoding unit, a text decoding unit, a display unit, and a power supply unit. The terminal plays back a stream in which encoded video information and text information are included. The moving-image playback terminal further includes a video decode on/off function that turns on/off an execution of video decoding in the video decoding unit. If the video decode on/off function is turned off when the stream is played back, the text decoding unit decodes text information but the video decoding unit does not decode video information.

Claims

1. A moving-image playback device for mobile use that comprises a storage unit, a control unit, a video decoding unit, a text decoding unit, a display unit, and a power supply unit and that plays back a stream in which encoded video information and text information are included,

further comprising a video decode on/off function that turns on or off an execution of video decoding in said video decoding unit,

wherein, if said control unit turns off said video decode on/off function when the stream is played back, said text decoding unit decodes text information but said video decoding unit does not decode video information.

2. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

wherein, when said video decode on/off function is turned off, said control unit limits a power supplied from said power supply unit to the video decoding unit.

3. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

further comprising an input unit,

wherein, if a video decode suppression mode interrupt is generated from said input unit when said video decoding unit decodes video information, said control unit turns off said video decode on/off function to prevent said video decoding unit from decoding the video information.

4. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

further comprising an input unit,

wherein, if the stream is played back when said video decode on/off function is turned off to prevent said video decoding unit from decoding video information, said control unit turns on said video decode on/off function to cause said video decoding unit to decode the video information in response to an interrupt from said input unit.

5. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

wherein an activation condition for a function, which changes said video decode on/off function, is set in advance in response to a user operation.

6. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

wherein said control unit turns off the video decode on/off function when an electronic mail function is executed in response to a user operation.

7. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

wherein said control unit turns off the video decode on/off function when said power supply unit detects a capacity low condition.

8. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

wherein said control unit turns off the video decode on/off function in response to an interrupt generated when a flip-type body is closed.

9. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

wherein an interrupt is generated and said control unit turns off the video decode on/off function in response to the interrupt when a key assigned to a video decode suppression function is pressed.

10. The moving-image playback device for mobile use according to claim 1,

wherein, if a frame to be decoded is not a frame that can be restored based only on encoded information on the frame when video decoding is restarted, a decoded video screen is not displayed, but a preset image or character string is displayed, on said display unit.

11. A moving-image playback device for mobile use that comprises a storage unit, a control unit, a video decoding unit, an audio decoding unit, a display unit, and a power supply unit and that plays back a stream in which encoded video information and audio information are included,

further comprising a video decode on/off function that turns on or off an execution of video decoding in said video decoding unit,

wherein, if said control unit turns off said video decode on/off function when the stream is played back, said audio decoding unit decodes the audio information but said video decoding unit does not decode the video information.

12. A moving-image playback device for mobile use that comprises a storage unit, a control unit, a video decoding unit, an audio decoding unit, a text decoding unit, a display unit, and a power supply unit and that plays back a stream in which encoded video information, audio information, and text information are included,

further comprising an audio decode on/off function that turns on or off an execution of audio decoding in said audio decoding unit,

wherein, if said control unit turns off said audio decode on/off function when the stream is played back, said video decoding unit and said text decoding unit decode the video information and the text information but said audio decoding unit does not decode the audio information.