Method and apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to digital jukebox

• US 20070221034A1
• Filed: 03/02/2006
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rowe International Corporation (AMI Entertainment Network, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Rowe International Corporation (AMI Entertainment Network, LLC)
• Inventors: Pigoski, Tom, Caviglia, Rick
• Application Number:
  US11/366,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20070221034A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/305 for record players

Abstract

A method and apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox provides a flat-panel touch-screen monitor or all-in-one panel computer to the door of a CD-jukebox to interface with the existing audio and payment components within the jukebox. The method may be used with floor-mount or wall-mount type CD-jukeboxes. Some or all of the existing CD-jukebox components to be left in place and reused if desired. The apparatus includes a bezel member that supports the touch-screen monitor, and which mounts to the jukebox door replacing the title window of a traditional CD-jukebox. A control computer connected to the touch-screen monitor runs software that enables the music selections and controls the playback of the music on the jukebox.

Claims

1. A method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox, the CD-jukebox having a title window in a window aperture, the aperture having a horizontal dimension and a vertical dimension, said method comprising the steps of:

removing the title window from the window aperture;

providing a bezel having a horizontal dimension and a vertical dimension, wherein at least one of the bezel dimensions is greater than the corresponding window aperture dimension, the bezel including a flat-panel touch-screen monitor; and

installing the bezel into the window aperture so that the bezel rests on the window aperture to support the bezel and the touch-screen monitor in the jukebox.

2. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 1 wherein the window aperture has a lower edge, and further comprising the step of:

providing the bezel with a structural feature to engage the lower edge of the window aperture to support the bezel and the touch-screen monitor in the jukebox.

3. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 1 wherein the structural feature to engage the lower edge of the window aperture comprises at least one nub.

4. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 1 wherein the structural feature to engage the lower edge of the window aperture comprises a channel.

5. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 1 wherein the flat-panel touch-screen monitor comprises a panel computer.

6. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 1 further including the step of connecting a control computer to the touch-screen monitor to run software that enables the music selections and controls the playback of the music on the jukebox.

7. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 6 wherein the control computer comprises a panel computer.

8. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 1 further including the step of connecting an I/O controller to facilitate communication between the software and the payment and audio devices within the jukebox.

9. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 1 wherein the bezel horizontal dimension and a vertical dimension are both greater than the corresponding window aperture dimensions.

10. The method for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 1 wherein the CD-jukebox is a floor-mount jukebox.

11. An apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox, the CD-jukebox having a window aperture having a horizontal dimension and a vertical dimension, said apparatus comprising:

a bezel member having a horizontal dimension and a vertical dimension, wherein at least one of said bezel dimensions is greater than the corresponding window aperture dimension; and

a flat-panel touch-screen monitor attached to said bezel, wherein said bezel can be installed into the window aperture so that said bezel rests on the window aperture to support said bezel and said touch-screen monitor in the jukebox.

12. The apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 11 wherein the window aperture has a lower edge, and said bezel includes a structural feature to engage the lower edge of the window aperture to support the bezel and the touch-screen monitor in the jukebox.

13. The apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 12 wherein said structural feature to engage the lower edge of the window aperture comprises at least one nub.

14. The apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 12 wherein said structural feature to engage the lower edge of the window aperture comprises a channel.

15. The apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 11 wherein said flat-panel touch-screen monitor comprises a panel computer.

16. The apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 11 further including a control computer connected to said touch-screen monitor to run software that enables the music selections and controls the playback of the music on the jukebox.

17. The apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 16 wherein said control computer comprises a panel computer.

18. The apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox of claim 11 further including an I/O controller connected to said touch-screen monitor to facilitate communication between the software and the payment and audio devices within the jukebox.