Audio streaming player

• US 20060149400A1
• Filed: 01/05/2005
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KJC International Company Limited
• Original Assignee: KJC International Company Limited
• Inventors: Choi, Yau Man, Shih, Chen Tse
• Application Number:
  US11/028,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20060149400A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/82 using signals not modulated onto a carrier

Abstract

An Audio streaming player, which can play the audio streaming by connecting to the Internet with a wired or wireless interface, the Audio streaming player can connect the audio streaming provider servers and play the audio streaming provided by these servers; the audio streaming player is composed with a programmable components for updating the codec and software with each particular audio streaming file format, and the behaviors control of this device is also pre-programmed; Moreover, the processing unit is for calculate the decode or code scheme and output a digitalized signals, besides the memory unit of this device provides the buffering space and storage place for the usage when decoding a audio stream, storing a address list server or other memorize requests; users can play the audio streaming by the cooperation of programmable components, memory units, digital signal processors, and Input/Output interfaces that belongs to this device.

Claims

1. An audio streaming player, which constitute by code unit, decode unit and memory unit, the codec and software can be updated for each particular audio stream format;

this audio streaming player can receive the audio data and decode the audio data by the cooperation between the processor, memory, and programmable units for output the audio signal;

the audio streaming player comprising;

a) programmable unit;

process the code or decode behavior and control the behavior of the operation;

b) memory space;

the memorize function for storing the user settings, provide the buffering space for code or decode function;

c) processor;

to calculate the code or decode scheme for an audio stream or for response the user controls;

d) digital and analog outputs;

providing the internal or external audio signal outputs for a decoded audio stream.

2. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the programmable unit can be realized by using a FPGA, which makes an update of codec simple.

3. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the programmable unit can be realized by using a un-programmable unit, the only requirement is the behavior of code or decode and the operation of users should be achieve.

4. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the construction of the memory space can be Non-volatile type or volatile type of memory unit.

5. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the address of the audio stream provider server can be setup by user or receive from a centralized address list server.

6. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the processor unit can be realized by using a DSP.

7. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the processor unit can be realized by using any processor, the ability for code or decode the audio stream and the operations of user controls is the requirement.

8. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the input and output of the audio signal can be analog signal or digital signal. Moreover, the audio outputs can be displayed on internal or external audio representation device.

9. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the input and output of the audio can be the input through an Internet connection, and other universal or specific audio input interface.

10. The audio streaming player of claim 1, wherein the input and output interface of the audio, which includes all of the audio input/output, and network Input/Output interfaces.

11. The audio streaming player of claim 1, further comprising a recording function.