Audio/video reproducing system, audio/video device therein, and audio/video reproducing method therewith

An audio/video device comprising:

• a detachable recording medium storing a piece of audio or video data;
• a data reader for reading the piece of audio or video data from the detachable recording medium;
• a difference data calculator for determining whether the piece of audio or video data read from the detachable recording medium is incomplete and for sending a signal for requesting lacking data when it is determined that the piece of audio or video data is incomplete;
• a communication controller for establishing communication connection with a server and for transmitting the signal for requesting the lacking data, the request signal is relayed from the difference data calculator to the server;
• a data buffer for temporarily saving the lacking data sent from the server, the lacking data being extracted from a first complete piece of audio or video data stored in a remote database such that a corresponding second complete piece of audio or video data may be reconstructed by combing the lacking data sent from the server with the piece of audio or video data read from the detachable recording medium;
• said lacking data transmitted from the server as a plurality of partial pieces of audio or video data, wherein a size of each partial piece of data is determined based on a first division pattern and a second division pattern, the first and second division patterns determined in accordance with a communication speed between the server and the detachable recording medium, and in accordance with a time required to authenticate identification codes to effect the storing of the data;
• the first division pattern corresponding to an initial predetermined period of time corresponding to the data to be stored, and having a plurality of sequential time slices, wherein an amount of data stored from a first time slice to a last time slice decreases in a step-like manner;
• the second division pattern corresponding to data to be stored after the initial predetermined period of time, and having a plurality of sequential time slices, wherein an amount of data to be stored is stored at a constant rate;
• a data combiner configured to combine the piece of audio or video data read from the detachable recording medium and the lacking data saved in the data buffer to produce the second complete piece of audio or video data;
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• a data processor for performing signal processing of the second complete piece of audio or video data produced from the data combiner to generate an audio or video signal.

An audio/video device comprising:

• a database storing complete pieces of audio or video data;
• a division pattern managing section for managing a first division pattern and a second division pattern;
• a data writer into which a detachable recording medium is detachably loaded;
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• a main controller for reading the complete pieces of audio or video data from the database, and for dividing the complete pieces of audio or video data in accordance with the division patterns into partial pieces of audio or video data and pre-loading only one or more of the partial pieces of audio or video data for each corresponding complete piece of audio or video data in the detachable recording medium via the data writer such that the complete piece of audio or video data can be subsequently reproduced in its entirety using the one or more partial pieces of audio or video data stored on the detachable recording medium;
• wherein a size of each partial piece of data is determined based on the first division pattern and the second division pattern, the first and second division patterns determined in accordance with a communication speed between the data writer and the detachable recording medium, and in accordance with a time required to authenticate identification codes to effect the storing of the data;
• the first division pattern corresponding to an initial predetermined period of time corresponding to the data to be stored, and having a plurality of sequential time slices, wherein an amount of data stored from a first time slice to a last time slice decreases in a step-like manner;
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• the second division pattern corresponding to data to be stored after the initial predetermined period of time, and having a plurality of sequential time slices, wherein an amount of data to be stored is stored at a constant rate.

An audio/video device comprising:

• a database storing a plurality of complete pieces of audio or video data;
• a division pattern managing section for managing a first division pattern and a second;
• a communication controller for establishing communication connection with an external device, the external device configured to determine lacking data associated with a partial piece of audio or video data, the lacking data combined with the partial piece of audio or video data forming a complete piece of audio or video data;
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• a main controller that, upon receiving a signal requesting the lacking data from the external device via the communication controller, reads a corresponding complete piece of audio or video data from the database, and divides the complete piece of audio or video data into a plurality of partial pieces in accordance with the division patterns to transmit the partial pieces of audio or video data as lacking data to the external device via the communication controller, wherein a size of each partial piece of data determined based on the first division pattern and the second division pattern, the first and second division patterns determined in accordance with a communication speed between the external device and the communication controller, and in accordance with a time required to authenticate identification codes to effect the storing of the data;
• the first division pattern corresponding to an initial predetermined period of time corresponding to the data to be stored, and having a plurality of sequential time slices, wherein an amount of data stored from a first time slice to a last time slice decreases in a step-like manner;
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• the second division pattern corresponding to data to be stored after the initial predetermined period of time, and having a plurality of sequential time slices, wherein an amount of data to be stored is stored at a constant rate.

An audio/video reproducing method for reproducing audio or video, comprising:

• storing a partial piece of audio or video data in a detachable recording medium, wherein a size of each partial piece of audio or video data stored on the detachable recording medium is determined based on a first and second division pattern, the first and second division patterns determined in accordance with a communication speed between the detachable recording medium, and in accordance with a time required to authenticate identification codes to effect the storing of the data;
• wherein the first division pattern corresponding to an initial predetermined period of time corresponding to the data to be stored, and having a plurality of sequential time slices, wherein an amount of data to be stored from a first time slice to a last time slice decreases in a step-like manner;
• wherein the second division pattern corresponding to data to be stored after the initial predetermined period of time, and having a plurality of sequential time slices, wherein an amount of data to be stored is stored at a constant rate;
• subsequently reading the partial piece of audio or video data from the detachable recording medium, while obtaining lacking audio or video data extracted from corresponding complete audio or video data stored in a database accessible via a server to reproduce the complete audio or video data;
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• reproducing a complete piece of audio or video using the lacking audio or video data extracted from the database in conjunction with the partial piece of audio or video data stored in the detachable recording medium.