WO2001033541A1

WO2001033541A1 - Installation for the wireless remote selection and wireless remote request of audio data stored in a data bank

Info

Publication number: WO2001033541A1
Application number: PCT/EP1999/008502
Authority: WO
Inventors: Bodo Scheidewig
Original assignee: Bodo Scheidewig
Priority date: 1999-11-05
Filing date: 1999-11-05
Publication date: 2001-05-10
Also published as: EP1238387A1

Abstract

The invention relates to an installation for the wireless remote selection and wireless remote request of audio data stored in a data bank. The inventive installation enables the user to make, by remote request, a musical selection on his/her individual data bank, for example at home, and to access said audio data from any location. A person that is provided with the inventive installation can access the entire musical selection that s/her has installed at a fixed location. It is no longer necessary to preselect and carry around mobile sound-storage media, since all data are available for selection and access.

Description

DEVICE SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS REMOTE SELECTION AND WIRELESS REMOTE CALLING OF SOUND DATA STORED IN A DATABASE

What options does a customer have, at what location to listen to music? There is the stereo at home, a car radio, a walkman and maybe a portable radio in the work rooms.

The customer is either dependent on hearing what the radio offers in terms of programs, listening to the audio cassette recorded with favorite pieces of music or playing his favorite CDs, which are constantly changing.

Customer problems with

Listen to music

The self-made audio cassette becomes boring or another one is just not at hand because it is in a different place instead of in the car, namely at home, in the living room. It is exactly the same with the CD's. Only that is added that not all pieces of music on a CD find pleasure. You would like to select what you cannot do with all CD players on the market. In addition, you cannot constantly carry around audio cassettes or CDs. In the car, the CD collection container, the small jukebox, a CD player takes up space or only one CD can be played at a time, because a CD made by the driver Advantages for the customer

The sound carrier does not have to be at the playback location.

Radio broadcast vehicles and disc jokeys, for example, do not need to move their own archive of sound carriers around the world and are more flexible in their choice of music

The transmission of pieces of music from the company's own TeleMusic Center (TMC) or new pieces of music from music publishers or radio broadcasters can thus take place at any place and at any time on the TeMsys outstations.

Claims

claims

Preamble:

Device system for wireless remote selection and wireless remote retrieval of sound data stored in a database.

Characteristic part:

Characterized,

• That a sound or music selection can be made independently of mobile sound carriers by wireless remote retrieval, whereby selection and retrieval can take place from a local database regardless of the location of the retriever.

Music fragments for trial listening, which could be transferred to the TeleMusicCenter (TMC) and saved on the remaining disk. This piece of music could be called up via a chargeable 190 telephone number, for example by charging a minute fee of DM 2.40.

3rd expansion stage

If the microprocessor technology is advanced and memory chips with enormous storage capacity are available, the TeleMusicCenter (TMC) could be replaced by a kind of multimedia PC, which digitally stores no CD's but only the best pieces of the CD's

4th expansion stage

The manual input via keyboard and display on the TeMsys modules could, especially in the car, carried by a voice input to a specific title to be just heard retrieve from TeleMu ^¬ sicCenter (TMC).

1st expansion stage

The cordless phone has only a certain range, usually 300 m from the base station, so that radio signals can be transmitted. From this range, the TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM) becomes a commercially available cell phone and performs the same services as a cordless phone.

Negotiations could be held with a radio network operator so that the transmission of music data is subject to lower fees than voice data.

Of course, it would be cheaper for the customer to carry out the transfer within the radio signal range of the TeleMusicCenter (TMC) than via the radio network of an operator. Nevertheless, this possibility should be opened up so that music pieces of the customer can be called up worldwide from his TeleMusicCenter (TMC).

In addition, the TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM) should also be usable as a cordless telephone or cell phone.

2nd expansion stage

It would have to be checked whether via the TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM) from the transfer of the "collected" pieces of music based on the data records from the CD to the TeMsys release is triggered by pressing another (transfer button

Special technical features

Each of these TeMsys front-door stations (TMMak, TMMiK CTMS) is equipped with a hard disk as used in PCs. The music pieces transmitted by the TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM) are then saved on this hard disk also used in PC technology. Equipped If a Titei is to be played, it is then transferred from the hard disk to the main memory and then "played".

The masses of data that would be transmitted could be significantly reduced with compression methods, for example with the "Musicam" program.

The data transmission could be followed by laser from satellite to satellite, he ^¬. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has announced that more than 800 satellites will be launched into the betting room, which will be used to handle broadband telecommunications. Cursor and display

A database is built up in parallel with the CD music data from the previously mentioned data, serial number, artist title, year of production, playing time and grade

The database, which is kept in the TeleMusicCenter (TMC), is structured in a kind of table or table with columns and rows. For each data record, ie. one line is allocated for each piece of music. The individual data of the piece of music are each shown in a column. there is a column for the sequential number, one for the artist, the music title, the year of production, the playing time and the personally assigned grade and each line is occupied by the data of a piece of music

The display in each of the TeMsys modules (except TMTM) practically shows a small section of the VAT or table, ie the database. A cursor is shown on the display, i.e. each data cell including the column heading is darkened when the cursor is on this field. Four (direction) buttons can be used to move around this area. With a further (sort) key, the individual music piece data sets, ie lines, can be pre-sorted in columns. However, the cursor must be in this column. That is, Artist and title are sorted alphabetically, sequential number, year of production, playing time and grade numerically. If the cursor is in the data record to be transferred, the music record can be triggered by pressing another (option) key For data transmission, the TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM) calls up the telephone number reserved for the TeleMusicCenter (TMC) and the connection is established

Database and programming

The pieces of music are still kept on the CD. In addition, when the CD is inserted, the associated barcode on the CD sleeve is scanned. This reading process activates and displays the basic data in the database of the TeleMusicCenter (TMC). The basic data should be: Number of the location on the CD in the TeleMusicCenter (TMC ) is the track number of the CD, artist, track, year of production and playing time.

With the help of the cursor and display, which will be described in more detail afterwards, the favorite pieces of music from the CDs inserted in the TeleMusicCenter (TMC) are filtered out and given a serial number that precedes the piece of music. The sequence number then replaces the CD and track number for the sake of simplicity. Grades can be assigned to this data record of each selected favorite piece of music, which are also appended to each data record. Change is associated with misdirected attention and could cause an accident.

TeMsys as a solution for the customer

Tele usikCenter

The TeleMusicCenter (TMC) is the focus of the TeMsys product idea. This center is a kind of stereo system and is located at the customer's place of residence. This TeleMusicCenter (TMC) contains a CD player in the form of a jukebox. More than 20 CD's can be held. The jukebox from Sony can hold 200 CDs. When the CD is changed in the jukebox, there is a rest phase that could be prevented by using a second CD player.

TeMsys outstations

Customers can purchase TeMsys front-door stations for the TeleMusicCenter (TMC). As would be the Telemusik macro (TMMak), a kind of unit case cherboxen a portable music device with loudspeaker ^¬, the micro Telemusik (TMMik) a type of Walkman, a supporting bares miniature music device with headphones and finally also an auto station, a CarTeleMusikStation (CTMS).

TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM)

The new thing about the product idea is the TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM). It's a kind of cordless phone. The usual cordless telephone device has a base station which is connected to the telephone network and the cordless telephone itself which maintains contact with the base station via radio signal. The TeMsys is based on this very basis. The TeleMusicCenter (TMC) represents the base station and the TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM) the cordless telephone.

This TeleMusikTransferModul (TMTM) can be plugged into all TeMsys outdoor stations. With this device, pieces of music are transferred from the TeleMusicCenter (TMC) to the outstations in compressed form. In addition, the outstations must be within range of the radio signals from the base station, the TeleMusicCenter (TMC). That is, Overnight, for example, the CarTeleMusikStation (CTMS) of the car that is currently in the garage could be charged with pieces of music.

Furthermore, it is important to note that the music data can be received at the same time when a piece of music is being played on the TeMsys door station.