Audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece among a plurality of audiovisual devices connected to a central server through a network
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G06F-015/16
H04N-007/173
출원번호
US-0195476
(2002-07-16)
발명자
/ 주소
Nathan,Guy
Mastronardi,Tony
출원인 / 주소
TouchTunes Music Corporation
대리인 / 주소
Nixon &
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초록▼
Audiovisual reproduction system triggered by payment from a user, developed around a microprocessor device, said system comprising memory containing, in compressed digital form, audio and visual information to be used, a display and digital audio reproduction unit enabling formation of a multimedia
Audiovisual reproduction system triggered by payment from a user, developed around a microprocessor device, said system comprising memory containing, in compressed digital form, audio and visual information to be used, a display and digital audio reproduction unit enabling formation of a multimedia environment, wherein the display comprises a video monitor and an interactive interface with the user by an interface program which reacts to external events and translates the external events for a multitasking operating system as events which trigger, via a graphical module of a library of integrated tools and services, a display of windows or frames providing a modification of physical operating parameters of the audiovisual reproduction system, said external events comprising at least a down event interpreting coincidence of a placement of pointing device with the position of at least a representation displayed by the graphic module, and an event which triggers modification of the physical operating parameters by storing these parameters in said memory.
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The invention claimed is: 1. An audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece, the audiovisual distribution system comprising: a central computer server including: a mass storage that stores a plurality of audiovisual pieces, a server network card that receives requests for said
The invention claimed is: 1. An audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece, the audiovisual distribution system comprising: a central computer server including: a mass storage that stores a plurality of audiovisual pieces, a server network card that receives requests for said audiovisual pieces, and a server multitask operating system communicating with said mass storage and said server network card; a number of buffers linked to respective controller circuits associated to hardware devices, detection means for detecting tasks realization in each of said buffers; and a plurality of audiovisual devices, each including: at least one of an audio unit and a video unit that effect play of an audiovisual piece, an interface unit that effects communication with a device user, a payment device, a device network card linked to said server network card, and a device multitask operating system module operatively coupled with respectively the audio unit and the video unit, said interface unit, said payment device, and said device network card, and wherein said device network card of each audiovisual device is declared to said device multitask operating system as a peripheral corresponding to a hard disk, said device multitask operating system having at least one hard disk access management task in which the order to play a piece resulting from a selection is processed as a hard disk sequential access task which makes the device network card send a request for said audiovisual pieces, in the form of a hard disk sequential access request, to the server network card, such that each audiovisual device does not include a storage medium for audiovisual pieces. 2. An audiovisual distribution system of claim 1, wherein said detection means comprise a task scheduling module, said server multitask operating system comprising a kernel for managing tasks with a hierarchic order. 3. An audiovisual distribution system of claim 2, wherein each audiovisuals device also comprises a task scheduling module, said device multitask operating system including a kernel for managing tasks with a hierarchic order. 4. An audiovisual distribution system of claim 1, wherein the server multitask operating system processes the hard disk sequential access request as its own requests for disk access. 5. Audiovisual distribution system according to claim 4, wherein the server comprises at least one telecommunications modem. 6. Audiovisual distribution system according to claim 5, wherein the speed of each network card is greater than 10 Mbit/s, and the dimensions of the buffers of the video and sound control circuits allow the exchange of information with a speed of at least 10 Mbit/s in order to produce the video animation on a network containing at least eight audiovisual apparatus. 7. Audiovisual distribution system according to claim 6, wherein the network comprises a number of servers, each associated with a hard disk, and a number of audiovisual apparatus such that the number of servers is at least equal to the number of audiovisual apparatus divided by eight. 8. Audiovisual distribution system according to claim 7, wherein the operating system of each server is associated with a switching means making it possible to decide whether the information provided in response to the request of a network apparatus is delivered to all the network apparatus or only to those apparatus which transmitted a request. 9. Audiovisual distribution system according to claim 8, wherein the server is equipped with audio or video means for playing a piece, payment means and means for interactive communication with a user or the network manager. 10. Audiovisual distribution system according to claim 9, wherein the operating status of the server or respectively the apparatus is held on the hard disk of the server or respectively in the permanent memory of the apparatus.
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