Multimedia playing apparatus and method

• US 7,739,585 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2006
• Issued: 06/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lian, Wen-Chuan, Hsieh, Kuan-Hong, Li, Xiao-Guang
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton; Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): MARRERO, ZAIDA
• Application Number:
  US11/309,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20070094406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,407 Days
• Field of Search: 715/203
• US Class Current: 715/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

A multimedia playing apparatus is provided. The multimedia playing apparatus includes a memory for storing image files and multi media hyper link (MMHL) files, each MMHL file comprising timeline information, audio information, and text information; and a central processing unit (CPU) electrically connected to the memory for reading an image file from the memory, obtaining an MMHL file matched with the image file based on a name of the image file, and controlling simultaneous output of the image file and the MMHL file according to the timeline information. A multimedia playing method is also provided.

Claims

1. A multimedia playing method comprising the steps of:

providing a memory for storing image files and multi media hyper link (MMHL) files matched with the image files, a name of each image file comprising 6 parts;

a file name of the image file, a first designated symbol, a file name of an MMHL file corresponding to the image file, a second designated symbol, an extension of the corresponding MMHL file, and an extension of the image file;

reading an image file;

recognizing the first and the second designated symbols and obtaining MMHL file information matched with the image file based on a name of the image file, the MMHL file information comprising timeline information, audio information, and text information; and

outputting digital images of the image file, digital audios corresponding to the audio information, and digital texts corresponding to the text information of the MMHL file according to the timeline information.

2. The multimedia playing method according to claim 1, wherein the first and the second designated symbols each being a character that is recognized.

3. A multimedia playing apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing image files and multi media hyper link (MMHL) files, a name of each image file comprising 6 parts;

a file name of the image file, a first designated symbol, a file name of an MMHL file corresponding to the image file, a second designated symbol, an extension of the corresponding MMHL file, and an extension of the image file, each MMHL file comprising timeline information, audio information, and text information; and

a central processing unit (CPU) electrically connected to the memory for reading an image file from the memory, recognizing the first and the second designated symbols and obtaining an MMHL file matched with the image file based on a name of the image file, and controlling simultaneous output of digital images of the image file, digital audios corresponding to the audio information, and digital texts corresponding to the text information of the MMHL file according to the timeline information.

4. The multimedia playing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first and the second designated symbols each being a character that can be recognized by the CPU.