US 8,621,350 B2Granted

Pay-per-play audiovisual system with touch screen interface

AssigneeTouchTunes Music Corporation

InventorsGuy Nathan, Tony Mastronardi

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Abstract

An audiovisual reproduction system triggered by payment from a user is developed around a microprocessor device. The system includes memory containing, in compressed digital form, audio and visual information, and a display and digital audio reproduction unit, for creating a multimedia environment. The display includes a video monitor and an interactive user interface which reacts to external events and translates the external events for a multitasking operating system as events activating, via a graphical module of a library of integrated tools and services, a display of windows or frames providing control of physical operating parameters of the audiovisual reproduction system. The external events includes at least a down-event where the user contacts a representation displayed on the touch screen, selecting a parameter to modify, and an up-event where the use breaks contact with the screen, which triggers modification of the selected parameter, saving the parameter in the memory.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A jukebox device, comprising:

at least one processor;
one or more memory areas that store audiovisual items playable on the jukebox device in response to a request by a customer and at least one system operating parameter of the jukebox device;
a display device configured to display a user interface configured to facilitate user interaction with the jukebox device for at least selecting one or more audiovisual items for playback via the jukebox device when the jukebox device is in an operating mode;
and
a multitasking operating system configured to enable simultaneous operation of the at least one processor and the display device, wherein a status of the multitasking operating system is backed up for potential subsequent jukebox device recovery, automatically and without human intervention, to a file each time a predetermined event from a plurality of predetermined events occurs, the predetermined events including at least providing credits to the jukebox device and selection of an audiovisual item for playback on the jukebox device;
wherein the status includes at least some operating parameters of the jukebox device;
and wherein the operating parameters include inactivity delay, and an indication as to whether a promotion mode, auxiliary source, or selection sampling mode, is to be started after an inactivity delay is detected.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/222,635Filed 31 Aug 2011 · continuation
Priority: 17 Jul 2002
Published: US 2011/0320946 A129 Dec 2011
Granted: 31 Dec 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification69 codes

G06F 3/0481
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a…
G06F 3/04847
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…
G06F 3/16
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for…: sound…
G06F 16/60
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of audio data

Family

PCT/FR95/01335Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Oct 1995
Application10/196,258Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Jul 2002
US 2011/0320946 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Dec 2011
US 8,037,412 B2Parent of this continuation
Application08/817,968Parent of this continuation
US 2003/0031096 A1Published application
US 8,621,350 B2This patent

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