Portable digital player compatible with a cassette player
AssigneesJames Buchheim, Dean Chang
InventorJames Buchheim
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Abstract
A portable audio device is provided and includes (a) a housing shaped as a cassette and insertable into a cassette deck of a cassette player; (b) a digital audio player in the housing, the digital audio player including a memory and an audio chip for storing and subsequently playing digital audio information through at least one speaker; and (c) an emulator in the housing, the emulator operatively communicating with the digital audio player for emulating the digital audio information as analog audio information readable by a magnetic playing head of the cassette player for playing the digital audio information through the cassette player.
Claims30
A portable audio device comprising:
- (a) a housing shaped as a cassette and insertable into a cassette deck of a cassette player;
- (b) a digital audio player in said housing, said digital audio player including a memory and an audio chip for storing and subsequently playing digital audio information through at least one speaker;
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- (c) an emulator in said housing, said emulator operatively communicating with said digital audio player for emulating said digital audio information as analog audio information readable by a magnetic playing head of said cassette player for playing said digital audio information through said cassette player.
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