Intelligent digital audiovisual reproduction system
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Abstract
Payment-based audiovisual playback system characterized by comprising a microprocessor unit, primarily including storage means for storing inter alia in digital form the visual and sound information to be used, and associated, through a number of interfaces, with display means for sound playback which provide a multimedia environment. The unit is controlled by a multitask operating system including a library of integrated tools and services in the storage means. The system is also associated, through an interface, with a telecommunications modem and is connectable to an audiovisual information distribution network by a telecommunications modem and telecommunications links, the telecommunications functions also being managed by the multitask operating system.
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20 Claims
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11. A jukebox, operable to at least play songs selected by a user, comprising:
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a touch-screen display, operable to receive touch-based input from a user;
a communications system, connectable to a central server for distribution of at least songs;
a local memory, maintaining at least a database of songs stored on the local memory;
a multi-task operating system, the operating system being arranged to associate a task with respective peripherals and assigning a first priority level to a display task and a second priority level to an audio task. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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