PORTABLE DEVICE FOR WATCHING TV PROGRAMS

• US 20060020985A1
• Filed: 07/22/2004
• Published: 01/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Ting, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US10/710,579
• Publication Number:
  US 20060020985A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/100
• 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 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/46 for receiving on more than one standard at will deflecting circuits of multi-standard receivers H04N3/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A portable device for watching TV programs includes a receiving module, a decoding module, an encoding module, a storing module, and a displaying module. Video/audio signals received by the receiving module are decoded by the decoding module and transformed to images and sounds by the displaying module, and/or the decoded video/audio signals are encoded in MPEG4 codes and stored in the storing module.

Claims

1. A portable device for watching TV programs comprising:

a receiving module for receiving an input signal;

a first decoding module connected to the receiving module for decoding the input signal and outputting a first decoded signal;

an encoding module comprising an input and an output, the input receiving a signal, the encoding module being used to encode the signal, the output outputting a digital signal;

a storing module connected to the output of the encoding module, the storing module being used for storing the digital signal output from the encoding module; and

a displaying module connected to the first decoding module for transforming the first decoded signal or a second decoded signal output from the first decoding module into an audio/video signal and displaying the audio/video signal.

2. The portable device of claim 1 further comprising an AD converter connected to the receiving module for transforming an analog signal into a digital signal.

3. The portable device of claim 1 wherein the signal received by the input of the encoding module is the decoded signal output by the first decoding module or the digital signal output from an AD converter.

4. The portable device of claim 1 further comprising a second decoding module connected to the storing module and the displaying module, for decoding the digital signal stored in the storing module and outputting the second decoded signal.

5. The portable device of claim 1 wherein the displaying module comprises a display.

6. The portable device of claim 1 wherein the displaying module comprises a speaker.

7. The portable device of claim 1 wherein the encoding module encodes a signal according to the MPEG4 codes.

8. The portable device of claim 1 being a PDA.

9. The portable device of claim 1 being a mobile phone.

10. The portable device of claim 1 wherein the receiving module comprises a TV tuner for tuning an input signal to a frequency band.

11. The portable device of claim 1 further comprising an output port, which is connected to the encoding module, for outputting the digital signal of the encoding module.

12. The portable device of claim 1 wherein the output port is a USB port.

13. The portable device of claim 1 further comprising a transmitter, connected to the encoding module, for transmitting the digital signal of the encoding module.