DIGITAL PHOTO ALBUM, DIGITAL BOOK, DIGITAL READER

• US 20100164836A1
• Filed: 03/11/2010
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Truview Digital, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Truview Digital, Inc.
• Inventors: Liberatore, Raymond A.
• Application Number:
  US12/722,045
• Publication Number:
  US 20100164836A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/1.100
• 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 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1628 Carrying enclosures containing additional elements, e.g. case for a laptop and a printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1656 Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1696 the I/O peripheral being a printing or scanning device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1634 Integrated protective display lid, e.g. for touch-sensitive display in handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/16 Digital picture frames

Abstract

A digital photo album includes, in one embodiment, a digital viewing unit for viewing digital media and a storage location for housing digital media viewable on the digital viewing unit.

Claims

1. A digital album/book/e book/reader comprising:

a) a first cover attached to a first component having a gap, a second cover attached to a second component, and binding attached to the first and second covers; and

b) a third cover for covering at least a portion of the gap;

c) wherein when the second component is moved from the closed position to the open position, a portion of the second cover engages the gap in the first component.

2. The digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 1, wherein the binding is a scrapbook-type binding.

3. The digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 1, further comprising a pocket in each of the first and second covers for receiving a portion of the binding.

4. The digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 3, wherein the portion of the binding received in each pocket is movable within such pocket.

5. The digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 1, wherein the binding is an old-style binding.

6. The digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 1, wherein the third cover is an extension of the first component.

7. The digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 1, further comprising a charging station.

8. The digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 7, wherein the charging station further comprises a communication feature.

9. The digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 7, wherein the charging station further comprises a plurality of interfaces for interfacing with a plurality of digital album/book/e book/readers.

10. A charging station for a digital album/book/e book/reader comprising a power system, a communication system and at least one interface for connecting to a digital album/book/e book/reader.

11. The charging station for a digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 10, further comprising a plurality of interfaces.

12. The charging station for a digital album/book/e book/reader of claim 11, further comprising a plurality of boundaries for forming a shelf-type charging station.

13. A digital device comprising a display, a communication system, one or more inputs, a storage and a cover.

14. The digital device of claim 13, wherein the digital device is an electronic menu.

15. The digital device of claim 13, wherein the digital device is an electronic greeting card.

16. The digital device of claim 13, wherein the digital device is an electronic scrapbook.

17. The digital device of claim 13, wherein the digital device is an electronic cookbook.

18. The digital device of claim 13, wherein the storage is a removable flash drive.

19. The digital device of claim 18, wherein the removable flash drive includes a decorative cover.

20. The digital device of claim 13, further comprising at least one display and a protective covering for the display.