Video display document
OwnerAlan Amroninventor
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Abstract
A video display system comprising a housing, a flat panel display, a memory storage module for storing data representative of an audio/video sequence, and a user input interface operable to cause the audio/video sequence to be visually displayed and audibly reproduced. In an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, the video display system is employed in a bound hybrid document such that the stored video sequence forms a part of the hybrid document. A plurality of aligned apertures are defined in the housing to accommodate the integration of the video display system within the bound hybrid document.
Claims27
A video display device simulating and representing a document comprising a video sequence, the device being without an image acquiring lens and an image to signal transducer, the device comprising:
- a housing having a maximum thickness of less than one inch and having a ratio of each of width and length to maximum thickness of at least five to 1;
- a flat panel display received within said housing;
- a machine-readable video storage module operative to store, as data, said video sequence;
- an operator interface for inputting a user playback command, said operator interface comprising one of a pushbutton operator and a touch screen operator displayed on said flat panel display;
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- a processor operatively associated with the video storage module, said processor being responsive to said user playback command to cause stored video data to be read from said video storage module.
An integrated, hybrid document comprising, in combination;
- a video display device simulating and representing a video sequence, the device being without an image taking lens and an image to signal transducer, the device including
- a housing having a maximum thickness of less than one inch and having a ratio of each of width and length to maximum thickness of at least five to one,
- a flat panel display received within said housing,
- a machine-readable video storage module operative to store, as data, said video sequence;
- an operator interface for inputting a user playback command, said operator interface comprising one of a pushbutton operator and a touch screen operator displayed on said flat panel display;
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- a processor operatively associated with the video storage module, said processor being responsive to said user playback command to cause stored video data to be read from said video storage module;
- at least one sheet of printed material;
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- means for binding said video display device and said at least one sheet of printed material.
A method of preparing and presenting at least one video sequence defining a video document, comprising the steps of:
- providing a video display device including a housing which is thin and flat and having a ratio of each of width and length to thickness of at least five to one, a flat panel display, a machine-readable video storage module operative to store data representative of a video sequence to be presented, an operator interface for inputting a user playback command, the operator interface comprising one of a pushbutton operator and a touch screen operator displayed on the flat panel display, and a processor operatively associated with the video storage module, the processor being responsive to said user playback command to cause stored video data to be read from the video storage module, the video display device being without an image taking lens and an image to signal transducer;
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- supplying a signal representative of one of a video sequence, a slide show presentation, an animated scene, and a progressive sequence of charts to the video storage module for storage therein.
A method of displaying at least one video sequence defining a video document, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a video display device including a housing which is thin and flat and having a ratio of each of width and length to thickness of at least five to one, a flat panel display, a machine-readable video storage module operative to store data representative of a video sequence to be presented, an operator interface for inputting a user playback command, the operator interface comprising one of a pushbutton operator and a touch screen operator displayed on the flat panel display, and a processor operatively associated with the video storage module, the processor being responsive to said user playback command to cause stored video data to be read from the video storage module, the video display device being without an image taking lens and an image to signal transducer and said video storage module having stored therein data representative of at least one of a video sequence, a slide show presentation, an animated scene, and a progressive sequence of charts to the video storage module for storage therein;
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- inputting a user playback command causing said video display device to display said at least one of a video sequence, slide show presentation, animated scene, and progressive sequence of charts.
A video display device which is an entirely solid state device without moving parts except for switches and which is a play back device without an image acquiring lens and an image to signal transducer, the display device comprising:
- a housing which is thin and flat, having a ratio of at least five to one;
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- within the housing
- flat panel display means to display a video motion sequence;
- a video memory means to receive and store compressed data representing the video motion sequence;
- manual switch means to be user operated to start the video sequence;
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- microcomputer processor means to control the reading of data from the video memory means, decompression of the data, and display of the decompressed data on the flat panel display means in response to operation of the switch means.
A video display device which is an entirely solid-state device without moving parts, except for switches, and which is only a play-back device without an image acquiring lens and an image-to-signal transducer, the video display device comprising:
- a housing which is thin, having a maximum thickness of one inch, and within the housing electrically connected together
- a battery;
- a communication interface port means for receiving non-proprietary compressed digital data representing a video motion sequence;
- a flat panel display means for displaying a video motion sequence;
- video memory means for receiving and storing the compressed digital data;
- manual switch means to be user-operated to start the video motion sequence;
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- microcomputer processor means for controlling reading of the digital data from the video memory means, decompressing the digital data, and display of the decompressed digital data as a video sequence on the flat panel display means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.