Picture/sound recorder with hinged flat picture screen

• US 4,633,323 A
• Filed: 12/07/1984
• Issued: 12/30/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Horst Kahl, Ottmar Haberkern
• Original Assignee: Horst Kahl, Ottmar Haberkern
• Inventors: Kahl, Horst, Haberkern, Ottmar
• Primary Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coles, Edward L.
• Application Number:
  US06/679,221
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 358/254, 358/255, 179/2 TV, 179/146 E, 381/87, 381/88, D14/77, D14/79, D14/80
• US Class Current: 348/838
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 31/006 with video camera or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/02 Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/121 the apparatus comprising a single recording/reproducing device

Abstract

A device for black and white, color, stereo picture, holographic picture and stereo and other amplified sound reproduction and reception is described, which is characterized by a hinged housing A and B, one portion of which contains the picture reproduction screen 1. A pair of directional speaker units 2a+2b are integrated in the hinge section of the device. Sound and picture reception units are located in the housing along with touch controls and auxiliary sockets which extend through the wall of the housing B and are located at the surfaces 3, 4a, and 4b.

Claims

1. A device for video and sound reproduction and for recording sound and video comprising:

a pair of housings bound together by a pair of hinges, one of said pair of housings having a picture reproducer for displaying a picture in an opening, an other of said pair of housings having a speaker mounted in each of said pair of hinges, said other housing having a sound and picture receiving unit and further having controls and auxiliary sockets extending through a wall of said other housing.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

transmission receiving modules positioned in said other housing, said other housing having picture and sound carrier controls.

3. A device for video and sound reproduction and for video and sound recording comprising:

a cover housing portion;

a means for video display mounted in said cover housing portion;

a bottom housing portion pivotally mounted to said cover housing portion, said cover housing portion pivotable between an open position and a closed position;

said bottom housing portion having a pair of end portions;

a pair of speakers, each of said pair mounted in a respective one of said pair of end portions of said bottom housing portion;

means for receiving video and audio signals mounted in said bottom housing, said means for communicating with said means for video display and said pair of speakers for sound reproduction and video display.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein each of said pair of end portions of said bottom housing portion have a surface arched about a central axis.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said cover housing portion pivots about said central axis.

6. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said lower housing portion further comprises means for controlling said means for receiving video and audio signals.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein said bottom housing portion further comprises a panel portion, said means for controlling mounted to said panel portion.