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Home digital audiovisual information recording and playback system

US6182126A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 12, 1997
Grant dateJan 30, 2001
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Expiry dateJun 12, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99955
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A digital home audiovisual information recording and playback apparatus includes a microprocessor associated, through a digital interface, with a display, through another interface with sound playback structure and through a telecommunications interface with structure for loading audio selection or visual selection digital information. The system includes structure for controlling the display, enabling an operating mode to be selected from a menu of three modes, in which the device either plays back information stored in its mass memory, records new digitized information in its mass memory or combines analog information from a microphone with digitized information received from the mass memory.

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