Accessory multi-media player

• US 20070118240A1
• Filed: 11/16/2005
• Published: 05/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Design Edge Holding Inc.
• Original Assignee: Design Edge Holding Inc.
• Inventors: Liu, Chin-I, Cho, Kuo
• Application Number:
  US11/274,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20070118240A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/12 Disposition of constructional parts in the apparatus, e.g. of power supply, of modules

Abstract

An accessory for attachment to a portable electronic device is disclosed. The accessory has a display unit, a processor, a communication interface and a housing.

Claims

1. An accessory multi-media player comprising:

a main frame having a housing to which a device equipped with a memory storage attaches;

a communication interface for making a connection and receiving data from the multi-media player;

a processor electrically coupled to said communication interface for receiving said data, then outputting a multi-media data stream;

a display unit electrically coupled to said processor for receiving said multi-media data stream and displaying images or moving pictures; and

at least a speaker electrically coupled to said processor for receiving said multi-media data stream and delivering sound.

2. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 1, wherein said device is a multi-media player.

3. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 2, wherein said multi-media player is a portable music player or MP3 player.

4. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 2, wherein said device is a flash memory disk or an external HDD.

5. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 1, wherein said multi-media player has a communication interface.

6. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 5, wherein said communication interface is Universal Serial Bus (USB), Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), or IEEE1934 standard interface.

7. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 6, wherein said communication interface has on-the-go (OTG) host function of USB.

8. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 1, wherein said processor is a digital signal processor (DSP) or a micro control unit (MUC) with video CODEC function.

9. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 1, wherein said display unit is flat panel display (FPD).

10. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 9, wherein said flat panel display is a color super-twist nematic (CSTN) LCD a thin film transistor (TFT) LCD, or OLED.

11. The accessory multi-media player according to claim 1, further comprising a headphone interface disposed in the housing that permits the music files to be played through external headphones connected thereto.