CN1798399A - Cellular phone as universal multimedia storage platform - Google Patents
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The present invention discloses a cellular phone as universal multimedia storage platform (UMSP-phone). It comprises a high-speed, short-range wireless communication means for directly and seamlessly transferring data with multimedia devices (without computer or user intervention). UMSP-phone provides great user-convenience, while lowering the storage cost of its associated multimedia devices. It will become a personal communication, computation and storage hub.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to field of electronic systems, or rather, relate to cell phone system.
Background technology
Portable multimedia apparatus (be otherwise known as in this manual " multimedia equipment ", " equipment ") can be shot with video-corder and/or play multimedia (as phonotape and videotape, i.e. A/V) data.According to its function, can be divided into camera-shooting and recording device, playback equipment and multifunctional equipment.Wherein, camera-shooting and recording device has shooting-recording function, can gather extraneous audio-video signal and be converted into multimedia file, and it comprises digital camera, Digital Video, digital voice recorder etc.; Playback equipment has playing function, multimedia file can be converted to appreciable audio-video signal, it comprises digital audio player (as the MP3 player), digital video player (as DVD player), portable game machine (as Nintendo DS), global positioning system (GPS) etc.; Multifunctional equipment has shoots with video-corder and playing function, and it comprises: the mobile phone of personal multifunctional videocorder (PVR), band camera and MP3 player and personal digital assistant (PDA) (PDA) etc.In this manual, shooting-recording function and playing function are collectively referred to as multimedia function.
Recently, the capacity of portable hard disk is rapidly improved.Wherein, 2.5 the capacity of inch hard disk reached 120GB (be equivalent to～300 hours MPEG4 films ,～60,000 number sign indicating number photo or～30,000 first MP3 song), 1.8 an inch hard disk reached 80GB (be equivalent to～200 hours MPEG4 films ,～40,000 number sign indicating number photo or～20,000 first MP3 songs).The hard disc storage capacity super large is wasted if it only is single a kind of multimedia equipment service real the genus.Hard disk is more suitable for being multiple multimedia equipment service to become the universal storage platform that multimedia equipment is shared in simultaneously, and its memory capacity just is fully exploited like this.
The U.S. Patent application US2004/0225762A1 of U.S. Patent application US2003/0045327A1, the Poo etc. of Kobayashi etc. proposed a kind of based on hard disk and can with wireless mode directly and multimedia equipment carry out the memory device of transfer of data.Though this memory device has greatly increased user's memory space, know that the pocket of modern day user is crowded with by " portable " equipment such as mobile phone, MP3 players already, this newly-increased equipment only can make situation become even worse.Therefore, preferably can integrate it and a kind of equipment commonly used, to make things convenient for the user.Clearly, mobile phone is the preferably selection integrated with this memory device.Correspondingly, the present invention proposes a kind of mobile phone (abbreviating the UMSP mobile phone as) that can be used as multimedia general storage platform (universal multimedia storageplatform).
Goal of the invention
Main purpose of the present invention provides a kind of mobile phone as person-to-person communication, calculating and storage center.
Another object of the present invention is to reduce the carrying cost of multimedia equipment.
According to these and other purpose, the invention provides a kind of mobile phone (UMSP mobile phone) and supporting with it multimedia equipment that can be used as the multimedia general storage platform.
Summary of the invention
The present invention proposes a kind of mobile phone (being the UMSP mobile phone) that can be used as multimedia general storage platform (universal multimediastorage platform).It adopts portable hard disk as memory bank, and directly carries out transfer of data by wireless (or wired) mode and multimedia equipment.Here, " directly " be meant that the data transmission procedure of mobile phone and equipment need be by computer control.That is to say that the user does not need to carry computer when using mobile phone and equipment, can greatly alleviate burden for users like this.
Portable hard disk, especially 1.8 inches hard disks, fully balance parameters such as hard-disc storage amount and hard disk size.It has great capacity (80GB), rational size and weight (54 * 78.5 * 5mm
3, 62 grams), high speed (bandwidth～100MB/s), cheap price (～100 dollars).Compare with portable optic disk machine (volume is too big), tape read-write heads (can only serial read-write), flash memory (capacity is little), portable hard disk is more suitable for the universal storage platform as multimedia equipment.The UMSP mobile phone can substitute flash memory (as CF, MM, SD, MS, xD card), shooting tape (as VHS, 8mm, Hi8, MiniDV, MicroMV), CD (as CD, VCD, DVD) etc., thereby finishes the existing numerous and disorderly storage standards of multimedia equipment.
Multimedia equipment can produce (or consumption) data at a high speed.For example, the digital camera speed that produces data be not less than～10Mb/s (under the situation that has added buffering area), digital video player need the speed of data to be not less than～1Mb/s (for the MPEG4 film).Correspondingly, should have between UMSP mobile phone and the multimedia equipment high-speed communication method (in general 〉=1Mb/s, best 〉=10Mb/s).Simultaneously, because UMSP mobile phone and multimedia equipment are the energy with the battery all, these means of communication are also answered power saving.
A kind of UMSP mobile phone of first-selection is wireless UMSP mobile phone.Wireless UMSP mobile phone is by wireless mode and multimedia equipment high speed, power saving and the seamless transfer of data of directly carrying out (seamless).Here, " seamless " is meant does not need the user to get involved in the data transmission procedure of mobile phone and equipment, and promptly the user does not need to be connected line with equipment room or to knock input etc. at mobile phone." seamless " transfer of data can realize that it can greatly reduce the capacity requirement to device memory by improving mobile phone firmware and equipment firmware.
Wireless UMSP mobile phone need be realized at a high speed with multimedia equipment, the wireless telecommunications of power saving.In general, the wireless telecommunications of this high request are difficult realizes.Fortunately, in the use of wireless UMSP mobile phone, the user generally is placed on mobile phone in the pocket, and simultaneously handheld multimedia devices is shot with video-corder (or broadcast), so mobile phone and equipment room distance very near (in general≤10 meter, best≤3 meter).(best 〉=10Mb/s) transfer of data is more or less freely for realization 〉=1Mb/s under this distance.The multiple high speed of researching and developing, short-range wireless mechanics of communication all can satisfy this requirement, as bluetooth (Bluetooth) 2.0, super bandwidth (UWB), Wireless USB, wireless 1394 etc.(as WiFi, CDMA) compares with middle long-range wireless communication technique, and their designs are easy, low in energy consumption, speed fast and cost is low.Notice that owing to adopt wireless communication technique, wireless UMSP mobile phone can also while and at least two multimedia equipment swap datas.
Another kind of first-selected UMSP mobile phone is a mixed type UMSP mobile phone.Except wireless telecommunications, it has also adopted wire communication, as USB, IEEE 1394 and internet etc.Wire communication (between mobile phone and computer) when in enormous quantities transfer of data has advantages such as high speed, power saving.Simultaneously, before realizing wireless UMSP mobile phone, wired UMSP mobile phone (only using the wire communication technology) feasible intermediate steps of can yet be regarded as.
The UMSP mobile phone is integrated with the memory device of conventional mobile phone and propositions such as Kobayashi, Poo, and their a lot of system resources (as microprocessor, memory, battery, demonstration and input etc.) can be shared like this, so can greatly reduce system cost.In the near future, the UMSP mobile phone will become person-to-person communication, calculating and storage center.In addition, the UMSP mobile phone can also have multimedia function.
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Fig. 1 represents a kind of mobile phone as the multimedia general storage platform (UMSP mobile phone).
Fig. 2 A-Fig. 2 B represents the use pattern of two kinds of wireless UMSP mobile phones.
Fig. 3 A-Fig. 3 D is a kind of various views of wireless UMSP mobile phone; Fig. 3 E is the sectional view (front plate is opened) of its hard disk.
Fig. 4 is a kind of circuit block diagram of wireless UMSP mobile phone.
Fig. 5 A represents a kind of wireless camera-shooting and recording device-wireless digital camera; Fig. 5 B represents another kind of wireless camera-shooting and recording device-wireless digital video camera; Fig. 5 C is a kind of circuit block diagram of wireless camera-shooting and recording device; Fig. 5 D represents a kind of method for downloading multimedia data.
Fig. 6 A represents a kind of radio play equipment-wireless MP 3 player; Fig. 6 B and Fig. 6 C represent another kind of playback equipment-little apparent player; Fig. 6 D is a kind of circuit block diagram of radio play equipment; Fig. 6 E represents a kind of multi-medium data upload method.
Fig. 7 A is the bottom view of a kind of mixed type UMSP mobile phone (or wired UMSP mobile phone); But Fig. 7 B is a kind of bottom view (hard disk is extracted the back out) with mixed type UMSP mobile phone (or wired UMSP mobile phone) of plug-in and take-out type hard disk; Fig. 7 C-Fig. 7 G represents its multiple use pattern.
Fig. 8 A is a kind of circuit block diagram of mixed type UMSP mobile phone; Fig. 8 B is a kind of circuit block diagram of wired UMSP mobile phone.
Fig. 9 is a kind of circuit block diagram with UMSP mobile phone of multimedia function.
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The present invention proposes a kind of mobile phone (being the UMSP mobile phone) that can be used as multimedia general storage platform (universal multimediastorage platform).It adopts portable hard disk as memory bank, and directly carries out transfer of data by wireless (or wired) mode and multimedia equipment (as digital camera 84a, Digital Video 84b among Fig. 1, digital audio/video player 84c, game machine 84d, GPS 84e and PDA 84f etc.).Here, " directly " be meant that the data transmission procedure of mobile phone and equipment need be by computer control.That is to say that the user does not need to carry computer when using mobile phone and equipment, can greatly alleviate burden for users like this.
In general, user who is in " moving " state (on-the-go) wishes to visit at any time thousands of number sign indicating number photos, thousands of first song, at least tens hours film etc., and this is equivalent to 〉=the multimedia memory space of 10GB.Portable hard disk, especially 1.8 inches hard disks, fully balance parameters such as hard-disc storage amount and hard disk size.It has great capacity (80GB), rational size and weight (54 * 78.5 * 5mm
3, 62 grams), high speed (bandwidth～100MB/s), cheap price (～100 dollars).Compare with portable optic disk machine (volume is too big), tape read-write heads (can only serial read-write), flash memory (capacity is little), portable hard disk is more suitable for the universal storage platform as multimedia equipment, and this is why the UMSP mobile phone adopts its reason as memory bank.The UMSP mobile phone can substitute flash memory (as CF, MM, SD, MS, xD card), shooting tape (as VHS, 8mm, Hi8, MiniDV, MicroMV), CD (as CD, VCD, DVD) etc., thereby finishes the existing numerous and disorderly storage standards of multimedia equipment.
Multimedia equipment can produce (or consumption) data at a high speed.For example, the data transmission bauds of digital camera should be not less than general flash memory writing rate (～10Mb/s), the digital video player needs at least～the instant data transmission bauds of 1Mb/s (for the MPEG4 file).Correspondingly, should have between UMSP mobile phone and the multimedia equipment high-speed communication method (in general 〉=1Mb/s, best 〉=10Mb/s).Simultaneously, because UMSP mobile phone and multimedia equipment are the energy with the battery all, these means of communication are also answered power saving.
A kind of UMSP mobile phone of first-selection is wireless UMSP mobile phone.Wireless UMSP mobile phone is by wireless mode and multimedia equipment high speed, power saving and the seamless transfer of data of directly carrying out (seamless).Here, " seamless " is meant does not need the user to get involved in the data transmission procedure of mobile phone and equipment, and promptly the user does not need to be connected line with equipment room or to knock input etc. at mobile phone." seamless " transfer of data can realize that it can greatly reduce the capacity requirement (referring to Fig. 5 D, Fig. 6 E) to device memory by improving mobile phone firmware and equipment firmware.
Fig. 2 A represents a kind of use pattern-multi-medium data transmission of wireless UMSP mobile phone 88.Mobile phone 88 can directly be downloaded multimedia file from a wireless camera-shooting and recording device 84r, or directly uploads multimedia file to a radio play equipment 84p.
Theoretically, also can realize the use pattern of Fig. 2 A seemingly based on the mobile phone of conventional Bluetooth technology (Bluetooth 1.0).But, since the data transmission bauds of conventional Bluetooth technology too slow (～0.72Mb/s), it can't satisfy the demand of a lot of multimedia equipments (as digital camera, Digital Video, digital video player etc.) to data, so it can not become the multimedia general storage platform.
In order to support high-speed multimedia equipment, wireless UMSP mobile phone 88 need have at a high speed, the ability of power saving wireless telecommunications.The wireless telecommunications of this high request are difficult to be realized.Fortunately, in the use of wireless UMSP mobile phone 88, the user generally is placed on mobile phone 88 in the pocket, and simultaneously handheld multimedia devices 84 is shot with video-corder (or broadcast), so mobile phone 88 and equipment 84 spacings very near (in general≤10 meter, best≤3 meter).(best 〉=10Mb/s) transfer of data is more or less freely for realization 〉=1Mb/s under this distance.The multiple high speed of researching and developing, short-range wireless mechanics of communication all can satisfy this requirement, as bluetooth (Bluetooth) 2.0, super bandwidth (ultrawide band, i.e. UWB), Wireless USB, wireless 1394 etc.Here, bluetooth 2.0 technology are a kind of short range, low-power consumption and wireless technology cheaply, and its transmission speed is 3.8～11.4Mb/s; Wireless USB be a kind of short range, low-power consumption, low cost and at a high speed (can reach～480Mb/s) wireless communication technique, it generally with UWB as its PHY layer.(as WiFi, CDMA) compares with middle long-range wireless communication technique, and these at a high speed, the design of short-range wireless mechanics of communication is easy, low in energy consumption, speed fast and cost is low.Notice that in Fig. 2 A, owing to use wireless telecommunications, mobile phone 88 can while and at least two multimedia equipment 84r, 84p swap data.
Fig. 2 B is another use pattern-long-range communication of wireless UMSP mobile phone 88.The long-range communication is the basic function of mobile phone 88, and promptly mobile phone 88 is with wireless mode and 20 communications of machine station, and the scope of its communication can far reach several kilometers.Because its communication context is wide, the data transmission bauds of long-range communication is lower.The example of long-range communication comprises CDMA, GSM etc.
Fig. 3 A-Fig. 3 D is a kind of various views of wireless UMSP mobile phone 88.Fig. 3 A is its end view, and it comprises a demonstration 32, input 34 and antenna 36.Fig. 3 B is its rearview, and it also comprises hard disk 38 and battery 30.Fig. 3 C is its top view, at this moment can see antenna 36 and battery 30.Fig. 3 D is its bottom view, at this moment can see hard disk 38.Fig. 3 E is the sectional view (front plate is opened) of UMSP mobile phone 88 used portable hard disks 38, and it contains hard disc head sheet group (head-disk assembly, i.e. HDA) 17.Sheet group 17 comprises disc 15p and magnetic head 15h etc.The disc diameter of this portable hard disk 38 is preferably about 1.8 inches in general≤2.5 inch, and its memory capacity is best 〉=10GB.
Fig. 4 is a kind of circuit block diagram of wireless UMSP mobile phone 88, and it contains a microprocessor 52, mobile phone firmware 56 (generally being stored among the ROM), mobile phone memory 54 (generally being RAM), battery 30, demonstration 32, input 34, hard disk 38 and interface 60.These circuit blocks carry out communication by bus 50BS.Microprocessor 52 and mobile phone firmware 56 are mobile phone 88 " hearts ", and it makes and realizes seamless, immediate data transmission between mobile phone 88 and the equipment 84.Mobile phone memory 54 can be used as hard disk 38 buffering areas, and its capacity is preferably greatly to making hard disk 38 can realize " batch (-type) access " (referring to next section).Interface 60 contains long-range wave point 72 and short-range wireless interface 74.Long-range wave point 72 provides conventional mobile communication by antenna 72A; Short-range wireless interface 74 provides the transfer of data of high speed, power saving between mobile phone 88 and equipment 84 by antenna 74A.One big advantage of wireless UMSP mobile phone 88 is that a lot of system resources can be shared by multi-medium data transmission (short range) system and mobile communication (long-range) system, as microprocessor 52, memory 54, firmware 56, battery 30, show 32 and import 34, thereby reduce system cost.
" batch (-type) access " is meant: when reading of data, can disposablely read mass data from hard disc head sheet group 17 and deposit in the buffering area 54, hard disk 38 enters armed state then, and the data in the buffering area 54 are progressively read by demand again; When the storage data, hard disk 38 is ready, and data only deposit in the buffering area 54, starts hard disk when buffering area 54 is expired soon, and disposable data with buffering area 54 deposit in the hard disc head sheet group 17.When meeting the following conditions,
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HDA), " batch (-type) access " can shorten the running time of hard disc head sheet group 17, reduces its energy consumption.Here, S
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HDARead or write speed for hard disk 38.
Fig. 5 A-Fig. 5 C represents wireless camera-shooting and recording device (wirelessrecording device, i.e. wRD) 84r and the circuit block diagram thereof that multiple and wireless UMSP mobile phone 88 is supporting.Wireless digital camera 84cm among Fig. 5 A and the wireless digital video camera 84v among Fig. 5 B all can store its static (or motion) image of being shot with video-corder in the mobile phone 88 into wireless mode.Fig. 5 C is its circuit block diagram.It contains microprocessor 38uP, equipment firmware 38FW, optical system 38L, imageing sensor 38S, data compression unit 38ED, device memory 38RB and wireless data interface 84WL etc.Microprocessor 38uP and equipment firmware 38FW are wRD 84r " hearts ", and it makes and realizes seamless, immediate data transmission between mobile phone 88 and the equipment 84.That optical system 38L, imageing sensor 38S and image compression unit 38ED shoot with video-corder is static (or motion) image is translated into digital signal, and it is compressed into multimedia file.Device memory 38RB is the equipment buffering area, its temporary transient storing multimedia.Wave point 84WL provides the data transmission channel between wRD 84r and the mobile phone 88.Clearly, the circuit block diagram of Fig. 5 C also can be applied among other wRD84r, as digital recorder etc.
Fig. 5 D represents a kind of method for down loading of multi-medium data.It contains and has the following steps: A) start wRD 84r, wireless UMSP mobile phone 88 standbies (step 102) this moment; B) wRD 84r shoots with video-corder audio-visual data and deposits it in device memory 38RB (step 104); C) if the data volume of shooting with video-corder among the device memory 38RB surpasses a predetermined value RDB TH, or wRD 84r enters holding state, and then wRD 84r sends wireless " waking a up " signal (step 106); D) be somebody's turn to do " waking up " signal enabling mobile phone 88, multi-medium data slave unit memory 38RB downloads in the mobile phone 88 (step 108) then; E) finish download after, mobile phone 88 reenters holding state (step 110).
Fig. 6 A-Fig. 6 C represents radio play equipment (wirelessplaying device, the i.e. wPD) 84p that multiple and wireless UMSP mobile phone 88 is supporting.Fig. 6 A is a kind of wireless MP 3 player 84i, and it can receive the audio file that will play by wireless mode from mobile phone 88.Fig. 6 B and Fig. 6 C are schematic appearance and the end views of a kind of little apparent player 84m, and it can receive the video file that will play by wireless mode from mobile phone 88.This little apparent player 84m uses little apparent chip (microdisplay) 55, and it is placed on the mirror holder 53.Little apparent chip technology just reaches its maturity (referring to works such as Wright, " Die-sized displaysenable new applications ", Semiconductor International magazine, in September, 1998).Little apparent player 84m can form the image similar to conventional display in user's eye, and its size and weight are much smaller than conventional display.The inventor thinks that as the revolutionary character influence that the MP3 player produces voice playing, little apparent player also will produce revolutionary impact to video playback, and its market prospects are extremely optimistic.
Fig. 6 D is the circuit block diagram of a kind of radio play equipment 84p, and it contains microprocessor 48uP, equipment firmware 48FW, wave point 84WL, device memory 48PB, audio-video decompress(ion) unit 48ED and digital to analog converter (DAC) 48D etc.Microprocessor 48uP and equipment firmware 48FW are wPD 84p " hearts ", and it makes and realizes seamless, immediate data transmission between mobile phone 88 and the equipment 84.Wave point 84WL provides the data transmission channel between wPD84p and the mobile phone 88.Device memory 48PB is the equipment buffering area, and its temporary transient storage is transmitted the multimedia file of coming by wave point 84WL.Phonotape and videotape decompress(ion) unit 48ED decompresses to this multimedia file; Signal after the decompression is converted into analog signal 48O by DAC 48D.Clearly, the circuit block diagram of Fig. 6 D also can be applied in the various playback equipments, as digital audio player, digital video player, game machine, GPS, mobile phone and PDA etc.
Fig. 6 E represents a kind of upload method of multi-medium data.It contains and has the following steps: A) start wPD 84p, the user selects a playlist, wireless UMSP mobile phone 88 standbies (step 112) this moment; B) multimedia file (step 114) among the wPD 84p playback equipment memory 48PB; C) if the last data volume among the device memory 48PB less than a predetermined value PDB TH, or the user selected another playlist, then wPD 84p sends wireless " waking a up " signal (step 116); D) be somebody's turn to do " waking up " signal enabling mobile phone 88, at this moment multimedia file uploads to the device memory 38PB (step 118) from mobile phone 88; E) finish upload after, mobile phone 88 reenters holding state (step 120).
Existing, take a kind of manual method to come to realize wireless data transmission based on the mobile phone of conventional Bluetooth technology with other bluetooth equipment, it needs the user to get involved.Particularly, mobile phone shows the file table of this bluetooth equipment earlier, and the user knocks input and selects a filename, and bluetooth equipment is received this document name, transmits this document then to mobile phone.Manual transfer of data requires device memory to have enough spaces to store the data that equipment is shot with video-corder or play in the User window, so the cost of device memory is higher.Here, User window is meant the time interval between the double user action (as connecting the mobile phone and the line of equipment room, the input of knocking mobile phone or equipment).
By improving mobile phone firmware 56 and equipment firmware (38FW, 48FW), wireless UMSP mobile phone adopts automated manner and multimedia equipment to realize wireless data transmission.Particularly, when the data volume that is stored in device memory (38RB, 48PB) arrives a predetermined value (RDB TH, PDB TH), automatically log-on data is transmitted (referring to Fig. 5 D step 106,108 between equipment 84 and mobile phone 88, Fig. 6 E step 116,118), this does not need the user to get involved (as knocking input).Combine with wireless telecommunications, these improved firmwares (56,38FW, 48FW) are achieved " seamless " transfer of data.
One big advantage of seamless transfer of data is that it can greatly reduce capacity requirement to device memory (38RB, 48PB).Or rather, the capacity of device memory can be shot with video-corder the data volume of (or play) less than a User window inner multimedia equipment 84.In addition, because device memory (38RB, 48PB) only plays the effect of temporary storaging data,, but not must use more expensive nonvolatile memory so it can use more cheap volatile memory (as DRAM etc.).All things considered, device memory can have less capacity, can also use more cheap memory simultaneously, so the cost of multimedia equipment can greatly be reduced.
When transmission in enormous quantities (～GB) during data, wire communication is having greater advantage aspect energy consumption and the speed.Correspondingly, the present invention also provides a kind of mixed type UMSP mobile phone, and it supports wireless and wire communication simultaneously.Fig. 7 A is its bottom view.It can be USB, IEEE 1394 and internet etc. that one wireline interface 38i, this wireline interface 38i are arranged in the bottom of its hard disk 38.In Fig. 7 B, but mixed type UMSP mobile phone contains a plug-in and take-out type hard disk 38.At this moment, hard disk 38 is extracted out from mobile phone 88 fuselages.Clearly, hard disk 38 also can integrate with mobile phone 88 fuselages.
The wireless communication mode of mixed type UMSP mobile phone is similar to Fig. 2 A.Its wire communication is a kind of of at least four kinds of patterns: A) mobile phone-equipment mode; B) mobile phone-computer patterns; C) mobile phone hard disk-equipment mode; D) mobile phone-storage card pattern.In mobile phone-equipment mode, mobile phone 88 and equipment 84 directly transmits data by line 6, as from camera-shooting and recording device 84r data download (Fig. 7 C) or to playback equipment 84p upload data (Fig. 7 D).In mobile phone-computer patterns, mobile phone 88 and computer 8 directly transmit data (Fig. 7 E) by line 6.The ability that computer 8 is handled multimedia document is stronger, can touch multimedia document (as CD and internet) quickly, more, also has I/O more easily (big keyboard and bigger demonstration etc.) simultaneously.When the user not when " moving " state (promptly being in or office), he can adopt wired mode to download audio and video files from computer 8 and upload the audio-video file of shooting with video-corder to computer 8 to mobile phone 88 or from mobile phone 88.Notice that line 6 also can be used to mobile phone 88 chargings.In mobile phone hard disk-equipment mode, if the fuselage of multimedia equipment (as digital video camera 84v) is enough big, then mobile phone hard disk 38 can be extracted from handset, and among the hdd slot 84vs of the equipment of reeve,, immediate data transmission (Fig. 7 F) seamless to realize.In mobile phone-storage card pattern, a draw-in groove 88s is arranged on mobile phone 88 fuselages, plug-in and take-out type storage card 86 can directly be inserted among this draw-in groove 88s, and directly carries out transfer of data (Fig. 7 G) with mobile phone 88.Here, plug-in and take-out type storage card 86 can be a kind of in the card such as CF, MM, SD, MS and xD.
Fig. 8 A is a kind of circuit block diagram of mixed type UMSP mobile phone.Compare with Fig. 4, its unique difference is that data-interface 60 also contains a wireline interface 76 and connector 76C thereof.Wireline interface comprises USB controller, 1394 controllers (referring to Fig. 7 C-Fig. 7 F), various memory card controller, as CF card controller, MM card controller (referring to Fig. 7 G) etc.
Most of high speed, short-range wireless mechanics of communication (as UWB) still are in development.Before these technology maturations, wired UMSP mobile phone 88 can yet be regarded as a kind of feasible between step.Its outward appearance and mixed type UMSP cell phone type are like (Fig. 7 A-Fig. 7 B) with wired mode (as USB, IEEE 1394, internet) and multimedia equipment swap data for 88 of wired UMSP mobile phones, and the use pattern is limited to Fig. 7 C-Fig. 7 G.Fig. 8 B is its circuit block diagram.Compare with Fig. 8 A, it does not have short-range wireless interface 74.
In order to realize immediate data transmission (no matter being wired or wireless), UMSP mobile phone 88 and multimedia equipment 84 need have one main frame/slave function or host function (as equal transmission peer-to-peer) just like.Three kinds of possibilities are arranged here: A) equipment 84 has the slave function, and mobile phone 88 has host function; B) equipment 84 has host function, and mobile phone 88 has the slave function; C) equipment 84 and main frame all have equal transfer function.Because UMSP mobile phone 88 needs to support multiple multimedia equipment 84 that it preferably has certain host function.
Except communication, calculating and memory function, UMSP mobile phone 88 can also have multimedia function.Fig. 9 represents it is a kind of UMSP mobile phone 88 with at least a multimedia function 58.Here, multimedia function 58 can be shooting-recording function, playing function etc.For example, a UMSP mobile phone 88 can have digital camera functionality (photo of shooting with video-corder can directly leave on the mobile phone hard disk 38); It can also have MP3 playing function (play-overing the song of storage on the mobile phone hard disk 38).
In sum, the UMSP mobile phone is integrated with the memory device of conventional mobile phone and propositions such as Kobayashi, Poo, their a lot of system resources (as microprocessor, memory, battery, demonstration and input etc.) can be shared like this, so can greatly reduce system cost.In the near future, the UMSP mobile phone will become person-to-person communication, calculating and storage center.In addition, the UMSP mobile phone can also have multimedia function.
Though above specification has specifically described examples more of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand, under prerequisite not away from the spirit and scope of the present invention, can change form of the present invention and details, this does not hinder them to use spirit of the present invention.Therefore, except the spirit according to additional claims, the present invention should not be subjected to any restriction.
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1. the mobile phone as the multimedia general storage platform (88) is characterized in that containing:
One hard disc head sheet group (17), this sheet group can be stored the data of at least one multimedia equipment (84);
One wireless high-speed, the short range means of communication (22,24), these wireless proximity means of communication make this sheet group can seamless with this multimedia equipment, directly carry out transfer of data;
The one wireless remote means of communication (26), these wireless remote means of communication make this mobile phone can with machine station (a 20) communication.
2. mobile phone according to claim 1, its feature also is: the data transmission bauds of these wireless proximity means of communication in 10 meters is not less than 1Mb/s.
3. mobile phone according to claim 2, its feature also is: the data transmission bauds of these wireless proximity means of communication in 3 meters is not less than 10Mb/s.
4. mobile phone according to claim 1, its feature also is: these wireless proximity means of communication are a kind of in bluetooth 2.0, super bandwidth (UWB), the Wireless USB, wireless 1394.
5. the mobile phone as the multimedia general storage platform (88) is characterized in that containing:
One hard disc head sheet group (17), this sheet group can be stored the data of at least one multimedia equipment (84);
One wired high-speed communication method (6), this wire communication method make this sheet group directly carry out transfer of data with this multimedia equipment;
The one wireless remote means of communication (26), these wireless remote means of communication make this mobile phone can with machine station (a 20) communication.
6. mobile phone according to claim 5, its feature also is: these wired direct means of communication are at least a in USB, IEEE 1394 and the internet.
7. mobile phone according to claim 5, its feature also are to have following A)-C) at least a in the feature:
A) this wire communication method makes this sheet group directly carry out transfer of data with a computer;
B) this sheet group can be taken out from this mobile phone, inserts in the multimedia equipment again, and directly carries out transfer of data with this multimedia equipment;
C) this mobile phone has a slot, and a storage card can insert this slot and directly carry out transfer of data with this mobile phone.
8. according to the described mobile phone of claim 1-7, its feature also is to contain: at least one multimedia function.
9. a radio multimedium equipment (84) is characterized in that containing:
One multimedia function (38ED, 48ED);
One device memory (38RB, 48PB), the data volume that the capacity of this device memory is shot with video-corder or play less than this multimedia equipment in the User window; With
One wireless high-speed, the short range means of communication (22,24), these wireless proximity means of communication make this equipment can with one seamless as the mobile phone of multimedia general storage platform, directly carry out transfer of data.
10. multimedia equipment according to claim 9, its feature also is: when data quantity stored in this device memory during near a predetermined value (RDB_TH, PDB_TH), this equipment starts the transfer of data with this mobile phone automatically.
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