ES2530543B1 - DEVICE FOR SENDING MULTIMEDIA FILES - Google Patents

Abstract

A portable electronic device (100), comprising a direct user access (300); a touch screen (126); one or more processors (106); a memory (102); and one or more programs (132 to 146), in which the program (s) (132 to 146) are stored in memory (102) and configured to be executed by means of the processor (s) (106); characterized in that the programs (132 to 146) include instructions for: detecting the pressing of the user shortcut (200); record a multimedia file in memory (102); detect the end of the recording; and send the recorded file to an external server (301).

Description

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DESCRIPTION

Device for sending multimedia files.

Object of the invention

The object of the present invention is a portable electronic device configured for automatic sending of multimedia files previously recorded by a user of said device.

State of the art

Generally, for the recording of sounds or video, both analog and digital recorders are used which, for the most part, lack tools to send said files to a selected user, for example, as an attachment in an email.

On the other hand, mobile phones, despite having the ability to record and send such files, the necessary handling to perform these functions is usually complicated and requires the constant attention of the telephone user, when desirable and necessary to be an automatic action of the same .

Description of the invention

It is an object of the present invention to provide a device for the automatic sending of multimedia files previously recorded by the device itself to an email address or external server previously selected and defined by a single user action.

More specifically, the device object of the invention is a portable electronic device, which comprises a direct user access; a touch screen; one or more processors; a memory; and one or more programs, in which the program (s) are stored in memory and configured to be executed by means of the processor (s); characterized in that the programs include instructions for: detecting the pulsation of the user shortcut; record a multimedia file; detect the end of the recording; and send the recorded file to an external server.

An external server means an email address, a second portable electronic device or a predefined FTP server in the device of the invention by the user.

User access is understood as a physical button on the device itself or a logical button, that is, a program configured as a button on the touch screen. In the same way, the detection of the end of the recording can be by pressing on the same button, the detection of a silence for a predefined period of time (a few seconds) or the detection of a keyword such as "END IDEA" .

In this way, by one or two actions of the user at most, it is possible to record the user's action and send it wherever they want automatically, solving the exposed technical problem.

Throughout the description and the claims the word "comprises" and its variants are not intended to exclude other technical characteristics, additives, components or steps. For those skilled in the art, other objects, advantages and characteristics of the invention will be derived partly from the description and partly from the practice of the invention. The following examples and drawings are

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they are provided by way of illustration, and are not intended to restrict the present invention. In addition, the present invention covers all possible combinations of particular and preferred embodiments indicated herein.

Brief description of the figures

A series of drawings that help to better understand the invention and that expressly relate to an embodiment of said invention that is presented as a non-limiting example of this is described very briefly below.

FIG 1.- Shows a scheme of the portable electronic device that implements the present invention.

FIG 2.- Shows a schematic view of the portable electronic device of the invention during its use.

Exposition of a detailed mode of realization of the invention

The present invention is implemented in a portable electronic device 100 which can be any selected among computers, tablets and mobile phones, although a preferred architecture for a mobile device is shown in Figure 1. In general, any programmable communications device can be configured as a device for the present invention.

Figure 1 illustrates a portable electronic device, in accordance with some embodiments of the invention. The portable electronic device 100 of the invention includes a memory 102, a memory controller 104, one or more processing units 106 (CPU), a peripheral interface 108, an RF circuit system 112, a circuit circuit system 114 audio, a speaker 116, a microphone 118, an input / output (I / O) subsystem 120, a touch screen 126, other input or control devices 128 and an external port 148. These components communicate over one or more communication buses or 110 signal lines. The device 100 may be any portable electronic device, including, but not limited to, a laptop, a tablet, a mobile phone, a media player, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or the like, including a combination of two or More of these articles. It should be appreciated that the device 100 is only an example of a portable electronic device 100 and that the device 100 may have more or less components than those shown or a different configuration of components. The different components shown in Figure 1 can be implemented in hardware, software or a combination of both, including one or more integrated circuits of specific application and / or signal processing. Similarly, screen 126 has been defined as a touch screen, although the invention can also be implemented in devices with a standard screen.

Memory 102 may include high speed random access memory and may also include non-volatile memory, such as one or more magnetic disk storage devices, flash memory devices or other non-volatile solid state memory devices. In some embodiments, memory 102 may also include storage located remotely with respect to one or more processors 106, for example storage connected to a network that is accessed through RF circuit system 112 or port 148 external and a communications network (not shown) such as the Internet, intranet (s), local area networks (LAN), extended local area networks (WLAN), storage area networks (SAN) and others, or any of Your right combinations. Access to memory 102 by other components of device 100, such as CPU 106 and peripheral interface 108, can be controlled by memory controller 104.

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The peripheral interface 108 connects the device's input and output peripherals to the CPU 106 and to the memory 102. One or more processors 106 execute different software programs and / or instruction sets stored in the memory 102 to perform different device functions 100 and for data processing.

In some embodiments, the peripheral interface 108, the CPU 106 and the memory controller 104 may be implemented in a single chip, such as a chip 111. In some other embodiments, they may be implemented in several chips.

The RF (radio frequency) 112 system receives and sends electromagnetic waves. The RF circuit system 112 converts the electrical signals into electromagnetic waves and vice versa and communicates with the communication networks and other communication devices through the electromagnetic waves. The RF circuit system 112 may include a circuit system widely known to perform these functions, including but not limited to, an antenna system, an RF transceiver, one or more amplifiers, a tuner, one or more oscillators, a digital signal processor, a CODEC chipset, a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, a memory, etc. The RF circuit system 112 can communicate with networks, such as the Internet, also called World Wide Web (WWW), an Intranet and / or a wireless network, such as a cellular telephone network, a wireless local area network (LAN) and / or a metropolitan area network (MAN) and with other devices through wireless communication. Wireless communication can use any of a plurality of communications standards, protocols and technologies, including, but not limited to, the global system for mobile communications (GSM), the enhanced GSM data environment (EDGE), multiple access by Broadband code division (W-CDMA), multiple code division access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), Bluetooth, wireless access (Wi-Fi) (for example, IEEE 802.11a , IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g and / or IEEE 802.11n), voice over IP (VoIP) protocol, Wi-MAX, an email protocol, instant messaging and / or short message service (SMS) or any other protocol of adequate communication, including communication protocols not yet developed on the date of presentation of this document.

The audio circuit system 114, the speaker 116 and the microphone 118 provide an audio interface between a user and the device 100. The audio circuit system 114 receives audio data from the peripheral interface 108, converts the data from audio in an electrical signal and transmits the electrical signal to the speaker 116. The speaker converts the electrical signal into audible sound waves for the human being. The audio circuit system 114 also receives electrical signals converted by the microphone 116 from sound waves. The audio circuit system 114 converts the electrical signal into audio data and transmits the audio data to the peripheral interface 108 for processing. Audio data can be retrieved and / or transmitted to memory 102 and / or RF circuit system 112 through peripheral interface 108. In some embodiments, the audio circuit system 114 also includes a headphone connection (not shown). The headphone connection provides an interface between the system 114 of audio circuits and detachable audio input / output peripherals, such as single-output headphones or an output earphone (earphones for one or both of the electrodes) and input (microphone) ).

The I / O subsystem 120 provides the interface between the input / output peripherals of the device 100, such as the touch screen 126 and other input / control devices 128, and the peripheral interface 108. The I / O subsystem 120 includes a touch screen controller 122 and one or more input controllers 124 for other input or control devices. The input controller (s) 124 receives / sends (n) electrical signals from / to other input or control devices 128. The other input / control devices 128 may include buttons

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physical (for example push buttons, rocker buttons, etc.), dials, slide switches, and / or geographic location means 201, such as GPS or equivalent.

The touch screen 126 in this practical embodiment provides both an output interface and an input interface between the device and a user. The touch screen controller 122 receives / sends electrical signals to / from the touch screen 126. The touch screen 126 shows the visual output to the user. The visual output can include text, graphics, video and any of its combinations. Part or all of the visual output may correspond to user interface objects, the additional details of which are described later.

The touch screen 126 also accepts user inputs based on the haptic or touch contact. The touch screen 126 forms a contact-sensitive surface that accepts user inputs. The touch screen 126 and the touch screen controller 122 (together with any of the associated modules and / or instruction sets of the memory 102) detects the contact (and any movement or loss of contact) on the touch screen 126 and converts the contact detected in interaction with the user interface objects, such as one or more programmable keys displayed on the touch screen. In an exemplary embodiment, a point of contact between the touch screen 126 and the user corresponds to one or more fingers of the user. The touch screen 126 may use LCD technology (liquid crystal display) or LPD technology (light emitting polymer screen), although other display technologies may be used in other embodiments. The touch screen 126 and the touch screen controller 122 can detect contact and any movement or lack thereof using any of a plurality of contact sensitivity technologies, including, but not limited to, capacitive, resistive, infrared and of surface acoustic waves as well! as other arrangements of proximity sensors or other elements to determine one or more points of contact with the touch screen 126.

The device 100 also includes a feeding system 130 for feeding the different components. The power system 130 may include an energy management system, one or more power sources (e.g. batteries, alternating current (AC)), a rechargeable system, a power failure detection circuit, a converter or inverter energla, an indicator of the energy status (for example, a light emitting diode (LED)) and any other component associated with the generation, management and distribution of energy in portable devices.

In some embodiments, the software components include an operating system 132, a communication module 134 (or instruction set), a contact / motion module 138 (or instruction set), a graphic module 140 (or instruction set) , a module 144 (or set of instructions) of the state of the user interface and one or more applications 146 (or set of instructions).

The operating system 132 (e.g., Darwin, RTXC, LINUX, UNIX, OS X, WINDOWS, or an embedded operating system), includes different software components and / or controllers to control and manage general system tasks (e.g., memory management, control of storage devices, energy management, etc.) and facilitates communication between the different hardware and software components.

The communication module 134 facilitates communication with other devices through one or more external ports 148 and also includes different software components to manage the data received by the RF circuit system 112 and / or the external port 148. The external port 148 (for example, a universal serial bus (USB), FIREWIRE, etc.) is adapted to connect directly to other devices or indirectly through a network (for example,

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Internet, wireless LAN, etc.).

The contact / motion module 138 detects contact with the touch screen 126, together with the touch screen controller 122. The contact / movement module 138 includes different software components to perform different operations related to the detection of the contact with the touch screen 126, such as determining if the contact has occurred, determining if there is movement of the contact and tracking the movement through the touch screen, and determine if the contact has been interrupted (that is, if the contact has ceased). The determination of the movement of the contact point may include determining the speed (magnitude), the speed (magnitude and direction) and / or the acceleration (including magnitude and / or direction) of the contact point. In some embodiments, the touch / motion module 126 and the touch screen controller 122 also detect contact on the touch pad.

The graphic module 140 includes different known software components for displaying and displaying graphics on the touch screen 126. Note that the term "graphics" includes any object that can be displayed to a user including, but not limited to, text, web pages, icons (such as user interface objects that include programmable keys), digital images, videos, animations and the like

In some embodiments, the graphic module 140 includes an optical intensity module 142. The optical intensity module 142 controls the optical intensity of the graphic objects, such as user interface objects, shown on the touch screen 126. The control of the optical intensity may include the increase or decrease of the optical intensity of a graphic object. In some embodiments, the increase or decrease may follow predetermined functions.

The user interface status module 144 controls the status of the user interface of the device 100. The user interface status module 144 may include a lock module 150 and an unlock module 152. The blocking module detects the satisfaction of any one or more conditions to transition the device 100 to a locked state of the user interface and to transition the device 100 to the locked state. The unlock module detects the satisfaction of any one or more conditions to transition the device to an unlocked state of the user interface and to transition the device 100 to the unlocked state.

The application or applications 130 may (n) include any application installed in the device 100, including, but not limited to, a browser, an address book, a contact list, email, instant messaging, word processing, emulations of keyboard, graphic objects, JAVA applications, encryption, digital rights management, voice recognition, voice replication, ability to determine position (such as that provided by the global positioning system (GPS)), a music player (which plays recorded music stored in one or more files, such as MP3 or AAC files), etc.

In some embodiments, the device 100 may include one or more optional optical sensors (not shown), such as CMOS or CCD 200 image sensors, for use in image forming applications.

However, the indicated hardware structure is one of the possible ones and it should be taken into account that the device 100 may include other image capture elements such as, camera, scanner, laser plotter or the combination of any of these types of devices , which can provide the mobile device with the representation of the real environment in video format, image sequence, vector format or any combination of the aforementioned formats.

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Similarly, the device 100 may include geographic localization devices based on GPS positioning satellite networks, geographical location aid devices based on GPS satellite networks and IP location of internet networks -AGPS-, devices geographical location based on the triangulation of radio signals provided by WIFI antennas and Bluetooth® devices (ISSP), the combination of any of these mentioned devices or any type of device that allows to provide the mobile device with numerical data of its geographical location.

The device 100 can include any type of element capable of representing images in real time with a minimum of 24 FPS (Frames Per Second, images per second) such as, TFT, TFT-LED, TFT-OLED, TFT-Retina screens, the combination of any of the above, in addition to new generation Holo-TFT, transparent and Micro-Projector screens or any graphic representation device that can provide the mobile device 100 with a way of representing visual content to the user.

The device 100 includes a processor or set of processors that by themselves or in combination with graphic processors such as GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) or APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) can provide the mobile device 100 the ability to represent, in real time of execution, vector graphics and form textured polygons with them, through vector representation libraries (sets of standardized procedures of graphic representation for different platforms) such as, OpenGL, DirectX or any type of libraries intended To this task.

Figure 2 shows how the device (100) comprises a button (300,300 ’) through which the recording of what the user considers relevant begins. Said recording is done through microphone 118 and / or camera 200 and ends when the user presses button 300 again, detects prolonged silence, detects a keyword such as "END IDEA" or a combination of the above.

The button can be physical (300 ’) on the device itself and connected with its hardware as shown in figure 1 or be a logical button or logical access (300) through the touch screen (126).

Finally, automatically after detection of the end of the recording, the multimedia file recorded in memory 102 is sent to an external server 301.

Claims (1)

ES 2 530 543 A2 1 - A portable electronic device (100), comprising: a direct user access (300); 5 a touch screen (126); one or more processors (106); a memory (102); Y one or more programs (132 to 146), in which the program (s) (132 to 146) are stored in the memory (102) and configured to be executed by means of the processor (s) 10 (106); characterized in that the programs (132 to 146) include instructions for: detect the press of the user shortcut (200); record a multimedia file in memory (102); detect the end of the recording; and send the recorded file to an external server (301). fifteen 2 - The device (100) of claim 1 wherein the direct user access is a physical button (300 ') or a logical access (300).