Multimedia playing device

• US RE45,298 E1
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Issued: 12/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Digilife Technologies Company Limited (You-Kang Electronic)
• Original Assignee: Digilife Technologies Company Limited (You-Kang Electronic)
• Inventors: Chang, Chien-Wei, Yang, Chen-Ping
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US13/986,414
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/158, 710/100, 710/300, 463/37
• US Class Current: 345/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883

Abstract

A multimedia playing device includes a central processing unit, a plurality of sensors electrically coupled to the central processing unit, and an output unit electrically coupled to the central processing unit. The plurality of sensors are operated together with the central processing unit, such that after the sensors detect different hand movements of a user, the central processing unit reads and determines the hand movement and transmits related control signals to the output unit according to different hand movements to achieve the effects of using a hand posture to control related functional movements and enhancing the convenience of using the multimedia playing device.

Claims

1. A multimedia playing device, comprising:

a central processing unit, having a digital signal processing unit, a memory unit that stores previous hand movements and a buffer unit electrically coupled with one another;

a plurality of sensors, electrically coupled to the digital signal processing unit; and

an output unit, electrically coupled to the digital signal processing unit, and having a display screen;

wherein the sensors detect a an actual movement of a hand that is not a reflection of light relating to the hand movement, the digital signal processing unit executes comparing the detected hand movement with previously-stored hand movements, and transmits a related control signal according to different movements of the hand so as to execute a function of the multimedia playing device selected from the group consisting of;

power on, power off, selecting channel, high volume, and low volume, pause, fast forward and slow forward.

2. The multimedia playing device of claim 1, wherein the sensors are infrared sensors.

3. The multimedia playing device of claim 2, wherein the memory unit is a memory or a hard disk.

4. The multimedia playing device of claim 2, wherein the buffer unit is a memory.

5. The multimedia playing device of claim 2, wherein the output unit further includes a speaker.

6. The multimedia playing device of claim 1, wherein the sensors are a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and a charge coupled devices (CCD) respectively.

7. The multimedia playing device of claim 6, wherein the memory unit is a memory or a hard disk.

8. The multimedia playing device of claim 6, wherein the buffer unit is a memory.

9. The multimedia playing device of claim 6, wherein the output unit further includes a speaker.

10. The multimedia playing device of claim 1, wherein the memory unit is a memory or a hard disk.

11. The multimedia playing device of claim 1, wherein the buffer unit is a memory.

12. The multimedia playing device of claim 1, wherein the output unit further includes a speaker.

13. The multimedia playing device of claim 1, further comprising a power supply unit electrically coupled to the digital signal processing unit.

14. The multimedia playing device of claim 1, further comprising a camera unit, a flash light, a USB port, a remote-control receiver, a card reader, an audio decoder, an audio/video transmitter, a microphone or any combination of the above, electrically coupled to the digital signal processing unit, and the remote-control receiver includes a remote controller, and the audio decoder is coupled to an earphone, and the audio/video transmitter is coupled to an audio/video input/output unit.

15. The multimedia playing device of claim 1, further including an image grid which stores locations of the hand so that movements of the hand from one location to another location are detected within the grid.