Card with built-in record/playback capability
AssigneeTorio Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorTakenori Kondo
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Abstract
Card or postal media which comprises a storage member to retain audio information picked up by a microphone, a sound generating member including a speaker, a mode selection signal producing member to allow either record or playback to be selected, a controller performing record or playback according to the mode selection signal from the mode selection signal producing member; converting the audio signal from the microphone from analog to digital and storing it in the storage member when the record mode is selected; retrieving stored information from the storage member, converting it from digital to analog, and outputting the analog signal to the sound generating member when the playback mode is selected, and a card board on which the microphone, speaker, and the other members are mounted.
Claims6
Card comprising;
- (a) means for storing audio information picked up by a microphone,
- (b) means for generating sound including a speaker,
- (c) means for producing a mode selection signal corresponding to any one of a record mode and a playback mode,
- (d) control means for selectively setting any one of the record and playback modes according to the mode selection signal from the producing means;
- converting the audio signal from the microphone from analog to digital and storing it in the storage means when the record mode is selected;
- retrieving stored information from the storage means, converting it from digital to analog, and outputting the analog signal to the generating means when the playback mode is selected, and
- (e) a card board on which the microphone, speaker, and each means are mounted.
Postal media comprising;
- (a) means for storing audio information picked up by a microphone,
- (b) means for generating sound including a speaker,
- (c) means for producing a mode selection signal corresponding to any one of a record mode and a playback mode,
- (d) control means for selectively setting any one of the record and playback modes according to the mode selection signal from the producing means;
- converting the audio signal from the microphone from analog to digital and storing it in the storage means when the record mode is selected;
- retrieving stored information from the storage means, converting it from digital to analog, and outputting the analog signal to the generating means when the playback mode is selected,
- (e) a card board on which the microphone, speaker, and each means are mounted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.