543results about "Carrier indicating/warning arrangements" patented technology

A button mounting structure for a car audio system includes a button including a pushing unit having a pushing part which protrudes forward, a locking piece provided above the pushing unit to be spaced apart from the pushing unit by a predetermined interval with first locking recesses provided on both sides of the locking piece, and connecting parts to connect the pushing unit to the locking piece. The structure further includes a front panel having an opening into which the pushing part is inserted, with first locking protrusions provided on opposite sides of the front panel, each of the first locking protrusions comprising an upper thin plate to cover an upper surface of opposite sides of the locking piece, a lower thin plate to cover a lower surface of the opposite sides of the locking piece, and a fitting rib provided between the upper and lower thin plates to engage with an associated first locking recess.

A process of selecting a recording on an audiovisual reproduction system consists of displaying a number of windows on a touch screen as an interface with a user. Items of information are stored in a bulk memory and are representative of an image of the album cover that is associated with each window and whose corresponding musical recording is stored in the bulk memory of the reproduction system. Each zone of a window is associated, via the touch-screen interface software, with at least one address for accessing the items of information in the database that is stored in the bulk memory belonging to the album cover whose image is displayed in the window that is touched by the user.

Portable storage units are equipped with human readable electronic displays that contain information pertaining to the content and state of the storage units. The information displayed changes as the contents of the storage unit change. Such electronic labels can contain a variety of useful information. Some information would be static, such as owner identification, while other information will be dynamic such as the amount of free space. Still other information will be browseable such as the directory structure, file contents, storage unit total capacity, storage unit available space, storage unit directory structure, storage unit file names. storage unit file contents and device reliability statistics.

A controller makes a demultiplexer select a transport stream corresponding to user's operation, and supplies it to a VTR through an I/F circuit. The I/F circuit of the VTR gives the transport stream to a recording/reproducing unit for recording, and transmits EIT data to a TV to supply them to a program guide GUI generating part. The GUI generating part generates GUI data based on the inputted EIT data, and makes them stored in a cassette memory using a cassette memory unit of the VTR. At the time of reproduction, GUI data read by the cassette memory unit is supplied to the program guide GUI generating part, and a program guide display of programs recorded on a cassette tape is displayed. In this manner, guide information on programs recorded on a cassette tape is automatically displayed.

The present invention provides a portable media player, such as a portable DVD player. The portable media player has a clamshell type design, including a base portion and an openable cover portion. The openable cover portion includes a display screen, such as an LCD display screen. The player may include a single-hinge stand attached to an outer surface of the base portion so that DVDs may be viewed with the player positioned to stand upright or partially upright. The player may alternatively or additionally include an optionally attachable dual hinge stand having a base including a battery.

A method corrects track misregistration attributable to out-of-plane motions of a rotating disk in a hard disk drive, and includes the steps of measuring a base plate-roll-bias angle between the rotating data storage disk and the head arm with a precision measuring device, and connecting the head arm and load beam at a roll-bias angle selected to minimize track misregistration attributable to the roll-bias. A number of connection arrangements and structures are presented in order to achieve the desired reduction in track misregistration.

The invention enables the apparent display rate of an audiovisual display to be varied. The invention can modify an original set of audio data in accordance with a target display rate, then modify a related original set of video data to conform to the modifications made to the audio data set, such that the modified audio and video data sets are synchronized. When the modified audio and video data sets so produced are used to generate an audiovisual display, the audiovisual display has an apparent display rate that approximates the target display rate. The target display rate can be faster or slower than a normal display rate at which an audiovisual display system generates an audiovisual display from the original sets of audio and video data. The target display rate can be established solely by a user instruction, by analysis of the audiovisual data, or by modification of a user-specified nominal target display rate based upon analysis of the audiovisual data. Preferably, the method for modifying the original audio data set is one that produces a modified audio data set that can be used to generate an audio display having little or no distortion.

A mobile terminal including a camera; a touchscreen; and a controller configured to start recording a video through the camera, display an editing region on the currently recording video including a time axis for a previously recorded part of the currently recording video and a plurality of thumbnail images listed on the time axis, receive an input of selecting a first point in the editing region for selecting a first portion of the previously recorded part while the video is currently being recorded, and overwrite the first portion of the previously recorded part with video currently being recorded.

A portable storage device with operating status display is applied for a processor-based system. The portable storage device includes a storage medium, a control unit, an operating-status-analysis driving unit and a display unit. The control unit receives an access signal from the processor-based system, in order to record and read the information saved in the storage medium to generate a record-and-read signal. The operating-status-analysis driving unit electrically connects with the control unit to give a driving signal after analyzing the record-and-read signal. The display unit receives the driving signal for demonstrating information about an operating status. Therefore, the operating status of the portable storage device is informed in real time.

An audio-video player, which automatically determines an event corresponding to the current state and displays a preferred message associated with the event, is provided. A DVD player includes: a massage table which stores prescribed messages in advance by associating them with a plurality of events having prescribed priorities; an event determination unit which sequentially determines whether the current state corresponds to an event, starting from an event of higher priority; and a message display control unit which reads out, when the event determination unit found the corresponding event, a prescribed message associated with the corresponding event from a message table and displays it.

A portable storage device comprises a housing having a first opening, a first directing portion and a second opening, and a main body having a storage portion, a connecting portion corresponding to the first opening, a second directing portion corresponding to the first directing portion, and a hanging portion corresponding to the second opening. The main body is slidably located inside the housing and is slidable between a first position and a second position. When the main body is situated at the first position, the connecting portion is exposed outside the first opening, and the hanging portion is hidden in the housing. The storage device is at a status of being used. When the main body is situated at the second position, the connecting portion is hidden in the housing, and the hanging portion is exposed outside the second opening. The storage device is at a status of being housed.

A video game system including a compact disc programmed with video and audio data and designed to continuously update a player device with informational data to facilitate dynamic sequencing of video tracks during video game play. A unique uncomplicated development methodology is disclosed for the format information on the disc and the programming of the player device providing advantages of achieving strategic video gaming and fast action gaming, exclusively from the manipulation of a user's input during play via six operable navigational buttons. The navigational buttons thus affect the player device selection of video tracks through format information added to image frames of the disc. Numerous benefits are provided including the use of high quality video images and DVD style gaming applications in a low cost system which utilizes inexpensive standard disc media, such game discs are developed at substantially reduced programming cost relative to other game programming technologies.

The present invention provides for a compact media player capable of playing a variety of audio and visual data embedded in a variety of media data formats, including but not limited to CD, CD-R, CD-RW, VCD, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and SD memory card. The player can also be used to receive TV broadcast signals and AM, FM and/or XM radio broadcast signals. In one embodiment, the compact media player can also perform computing functions. Also, the player of the present invention can be used as a means to transmit and receive media data to other media devices through A/V, USB and/or wireless interfaces. The player can also record incoming media data sources through those interfaces.

Glide heads for the detection of asperities on a storage disc have a thermal transducer oriented along the air bearing surface. The thermal transducer generally is in electrical contact with a circuit to measure the electrical resistance of the thermal transducer. Preferred methods of depositing the thermal transducer involve the deposition of the thermal transducer on the smooth surface of a wafer prior to the slicing of individual sliders.

A method and apparatus for calibrating a glide head and detector system performs a pre-screening to ensure the quality of the glide head and the piezoelectric sensor in the detection system. The glide head and the piezoelectric sensor detect a signal when the glide head makes contact with the disk, such as a magnetic recording disk. Calibration of the detection system utilizes a specially made bump disk that has asperities of desired height and size that protrude out of a flat disk surface. The glide head is flown over the bump disk, and by gradually reducing the disk spinning velocity, the head is brought closer to the disk and eventually into contact with the asperity. The onset of contact, as detected by the piezoelectric sensor, defines a disk spinning velocity for the head to fly at the desired height. In order to decouple the glide head flying characteristics and the piezoelectric quality and transfer function from other factors that affect the calibration of the detection system, laser pulses are directed at the glide head. Head vibrations are introduced in the glide head and detected by the piezoelectric sensor. The head excitations are recorded as a spectrogram in which the resonance frequencies are observed. From the amplitude and frequency readings, head resonance frequencies are identified and the piezoelectric sensor response is characterized. This allows the pre-screening of the head/sensor system and the decoupling of the glide head flying characteristics and the piezoelectric sensor quality from the asperity integrity effects on the calibration of the detection system.