MOTION RESPONSIVE PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER

• US 20080147217A1
• Filed: 12/12/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ensky Technology Company Limited, Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation), Motive Incorporated (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ensky Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Hsieh, Kun-Chih, Hsieh, Kuan-Hong, Chung, Shin-Hong, Li, Xiao-Guang
• Application Number:
  US11/955,372
• Publication Number:
  US 20080147217A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

A motion responsive portable media player is provided. The portable media player includes a processing unit and at least one vibration part. The vibration part acts as an input unit and operates independently of the input unit. The vibration part includes a swing means and at least one pressure sensor. The swing means is configured for hitting the pressure sensor in response to deliberate shake motions imparted on the portable media player by the user, and the pressure sensor is configured for generating a signal to the processing unit in response to a hit operation thereon. When successively receiving a predetermined number of signals from the pressure sensor during playing of musical files, the processing unit performs a predetermined operation in responsive to the predetermined number of signals.

Claims

1. A motion responsive portable media player comprising:

a processing unit; and

at least one vibration part comprising a swing means and at least one pressure sensor, wherein the swing means is configured for hitting the pressure sensor in response to shake motions imparted on the portable media player by the user, and the pressure sensor is configured for generating a signal to the processing unit in response to a hit operation thereon;

wherein when the processing unit successively receives a predetermined number of signals from the pressure sensor during playing of musical files, the processing unit performs a predetermined operation in responsive to the predetermined number of signals.

2. The portable media player according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined operation is one of randomly selecting a musical file and playing the selected musical file, and updating a current playlist according to a random function.

3. The portable media player according to claim 1, wherein when the vibration part comprises a plurality of pressure sensors, each of the pressure sensors is assigned with a coordinate for identification, and the processing unit determines a direction of the shake motions according to the coordinates of the pressure sensors, and performs a corresponding predetermined operation according to the direction.

4. The portable media player according to claim 3, wherein when the direction is a first direction, the corresponding predetermined operation is one of playing a next musical file and increasing an output volume of the portable media player, and when the direction is a second direction, the corresponding predetermined operation is one of playing a previous musical file and decreasing the output volume of the portable media player.

5. The portable media player according to claim 1, wherein the swing means comprises a spherule and an elastic pole, wherein the spherule is configured on one end of the elastic pole.

6. The portable media player according to claim 3, wherein the vibration part comprises two pressure sensors, and the swing means comprises a spherule and two slides, wherein the two slides and the two pressure sensors form a sealed cavity.