Intelligent digital audiovisual playback system
US7188352B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 12, 1995 |
| Grant date | Mar 6, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 12, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10H2240/191
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Payment-based audiovisual playback system characterized by comprising a microprocessor unit, primarily including storage means for storing inter alia in digital form the visual and sound information to be used, and associated, through a number of interfaces, with display means for sound playback which provide a multimedia environment. The unit is controlled by a multitask operating system including a library of integrated tools and services in the storage means. The system is also associated, through an interface, with a telecommunications modem and is connectable to an audiovisual information distribution network by a telecommunications modem and telecommunications links, the telecommunications functions also being managed by the multitask operating system.
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