EP 1668883 A4 20070711 - PORTABLE VIDEO STORAGE AND PLAYBACK DEVICE

Title (en)

PORTABLE VIDEO STORAGE AND PLAYBACK DEVICE

Title (de)

TRAGBARE VIDEOSPEICHER- UND WIEDERGABEEINRICHTUNG

Title (fr)

DISPOSITIF PORTATIF DE STOCKAGE ET DE REPRODUCTION VIDEO

Publication

EP 1668883 A4 20070711 (EN)

Application

EP 04784940 A 20040924

Priority

US 2004031302 W 20040924
US 50608803 P 20030924
US 58682704 P 20040709

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2005032115A2] A portable video storage and playback device can download, store, and playback video files. In an exemplary embodiment, the files can be played-back in a number of different formats. In one embodiment, the invention includes a disk drive for storing a plurality of video files. A processor is coupled to the disk drive and configured to manage the files stored on the disk, which includes the ability to store, display and retrieve the video files. The invention includes a number of interfaces, for example, PAL/NTSC, S-Video and USB, which allows the video to be downloaded and played-back in any of these formats or protocols. The invention and includes a video encoder/decoder, which in one aspect is for MPEG. Advantages of the invention include the ability to store a number of video files in a compact portable device that can be transported and viewed at convenient locations.

IPC 8 full level

H04N 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/167 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2006.01); H04N 9/804 (2006.01); H04N 5/765 (2006.01); H04N 5/775 (2006.01); H04N 5/781 (2006.01)

IPC 8 main group level

H04N (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H04N 9/8042 (2013.01); H04N 21/2541 (2013.01); H04N 21/2543 (2013.01); H04N 21/25875 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/42661 (2013.01); H04N 21/4335 (2013.01); H04N 5/765 (2013.01); H04N 5/775 (2013.01); H04N 5/781 (2013.01); H04N 7/1675 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

[YA] US 2002146122 A1 20021010 - VESTERGAARD STEVE [CA], et al
[YA] WO 02076098 A1 20020926 - VESTA BROADBAND SERVICES INC [US]
[A] US 6546555 B1 20030408 - HJELSVOLD RUNE [US], et al
See references of WO 2005032115A2

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2005032115 A2 20050407; WO 2005032115 A3 20061228; EP 1668883 A2 20060614; EP 1668883 A4 20070711

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 2004031302 W 20040924; EP 04784940 A 20040924