TWI225196B - Memory depot - Google Patents

Abstract

A memory depot comprising: data receiving means for receiving data from at least an integrated circuit memory medium; and optical drive means operable in a record mode for recording data received by said data receiving means in an optical medium.

Description

1225196 发明 Description of the invention (The description of the invention should state: the technical field to which the invention belongs, the prior art 'content', and a brief description of the embodiment)

[Technical field of Ming; J A Sisi supply station is a device that provides portable economic memory storage for digital camera users. This device addresses many of the shortcomings of current technology. • A digital camera relies heavily on a computer to present images through a printer or monitor terminal. • Digital cameras used as official cameras use memory media that is not widely available10. • A digital camera's memory media is more expensive than optical memory media such as compact discs (CDs) or digital versatile discs (DVDs). The present invention allows a digital camera to transmit image data to a portable device, so that the digital camera can continue to have freed up memory space for taking pictures in excess of 15%. The present invention, i.e. the device, uses very cheap optical media, i.e. CDs or DVDs, all of which have a capacity several times the size of digital memory media. Integrated circuit (1C) memory media, the current technology of flash memory will not exceed 516M per piece. One CD can store about 700M bytes and one can store 6CDs or 12CDs, respectively, Uli or 9 ^ 20 ^ capacity. The other 20, just like a photographer will do, I can bring a few blank CDs or blank DVDs, just like I would bring a few blank films. It would be too expensive to deduct fe, sports media ’to do the same thing. A cd costs a few cents' and a DVD costs a few dollars, but _ 5 Li's flash memory chips currently exceed $ 300.〇〇. 5 1225196 5 10 发明, description of the invention Digital cameras use many types and brands of memory media; in particular, those formed by 1c memory chips are relatively expensive compared to-roll negatives. Therefore, the common and u points among some 1C memory media are that all of them have a capacity limit, just like a roll of 35mm negative film will have negative / limit. Although the digital media has a larger capacity in terms of the number of images than the alpha film, the larger the volume, the larger the size of the image, the larger the range of image quality, from the bit of each image to the current number of images. For 5 million, the end of this continuous increase in resolution is not yet seen. Therefore, there is no big difference between a digital camera and a conventional camera that has been used as an inconvenient film. The memory needs to be erased once the memory medium is used. Prepare for the extra space for use or pay more because the memory media is not as widely available as film, and film is almost everywhere.

[Sun and Moon Contents JI 15 The present invention is very similar in appearance to a portable cd / dvd player, but it is actually an optical media burner, writing digital information to a CD or-'. See the old top view, the rear view of Figure 2, the right view of Figure 3, the bottom view of Figure 4, and the perspective view of Figure 5. The measurements in i and 2 are all in em. To prevent the optical media from slipping, the device uses the prevention techniques currently used in portable CDs to minimize the impact caused by the dislocation movement. Except for the audio connection 81 and DC power source 70 in the second picture, the device has the universal sequence as shown in the fifth picture, please use _2 (usb_ 2) 30 and firewire (IEEE 1394) 40 Of the connector. In order to allow storage of memory media, the device also has openings 50,60 for 1C memory media.

20 发明. Description of the invention It is common in current digital camera technology. The innovation of the device is that the present invention can complete the transfer of memory from one type to another without computer host, and the size of the present invention is-a portable CD player in the current technology to display The mobility support provided is in response to the needs of most digital cameras that are also mobile devices. As a intended use, the device itself can actually be integrated. 'Today's digital spectrum in all aspects of the home-music CD player'-a DVD player, a digital music player __ 1 layer 3), the periphery of the m system, the electric month from which the image is stored, and the main purpose of the invention's φ ® η, / τ, IC memory reader to release a digital camera for uploading . • All IC media used in digital cameras support read / write operations. Therefore, the present invention has a hardware container for almost all universal ... memory media. The present invention can also be used as a memory converter to transfer information from A media type is transferred to other types required, provided that the media at the receiving end has a sufficient basic interface 'Delete_2 3 () or FireWire Coffee 4〇, if required #, the device can also be used as -Computer Peripherals. USB-2 is controlled by a dual-action control-as _ host control and _ peripheral control. [Embodiment] As shown in FIG. 4, the device is provided with a battery base 60 and a DC power connector 70 'as shown in FIG. 2 like a typical portable CD player. In addition, there is an RCA video terminal 80, and a stereo terminal 81, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the device can be used instead of a video CD (VCD) or DVD player.发明, description of the invention Langzhi is divided into a number of main components, namely the input / output section 31, the control section 41, and the processing section 42. As illustrated in Fig. 6, the control section 41 is on the rear side of the cover 90, and the input / output section ... and the processing section 42 are co-located in the 100 part of the main body of the device. Input / output part 3 in Fig. 7] It mainly contains circuits for connecting the IC memory media slot / container to the data media transfer control 32, US3 port 30sUsb control 33, FireWire port 40 to IEEE 1394 control%. And mainly 匸 read / write mechanisms 101, 140, and 150. This input / output section shown in Figure 6 3 1 is equipped with a medium that accepts almost all flash memory technology-based 10-type interfaces. These are the common flash memories that are widely used in the industry today It is c〇mpactFlash (FC), Micr〇Media (mm),

MemoryStick® (MS), and SecureDigital (SD). From the inventor's point of view, there are also some other lesser known trademarks. These memory media generally have 3 different physical IC packages, so they need to be slightly different in the tank or container. The opening 50 is for the CF slot 4 and the opening 嶋 is for the slot 5 for receiving MM, MS and SD. The device is also equipped with a flash, and a USB port 30 to allow I / O communication through individual standards. 20 The processing part 42 described in FIG. 7 is basically a cd / dvd optical drive control processing unit, which has a storage program to retrieve the moon material from standard compatible media—for 1C memory media. General Flash Interface (CFI), IEE 1394 for FireWire and deleted. The processing part 42 and the input / output part 3 are located on the material of the fascia board 13G, which is double-sided, where all the chip sets and necessary electronic parts are on one side and on the other side On /, there is a media slot. If necessary, the space on the other side will also be used for the wafer, which is less than 3mm thick. The space provided by the pc board is large enough because of the maturity of today's system-on-chip (SoC) technology and its widespread availability. The power and processing flexibility of SOC can be found in the chipset illustrated in Figure 8. In the current art, the processing unit wafer set is about 3 cm2 in size and i.5 mm thick. The two slots 4,5, 5cmx2.5cmx.4cm and 5cmx5cmx.4cm, respectively, will be sufficient to accommodate almost all common IC memory package configurations. The dimensions of the PC board 130 cover the space not used by the battery cover 60 (which also receives a rechargeable battery), the mechanism of the CD / DVD rotator 140, and the mobile optical pickup unit (〇PU) 150, and the sled type Guide the plate 101. In order to increase the robustness of the device, in addition to the support provided by the wall of the main body 100, the pc board 130 is also supported by many bottom feet of the main body ιOO. Figure 7 illustrates the logical architecture of the device. The wafer boundary 300 is a DVD rewritable (RW) and CD rewritable (RW) combination control and DVD write operation, which has the necessary laser power control. There are many options to implement the stated architecture. Fig. 8 showing an example of a usable chip set lists possible combinations of wafers that can support the wafer boundary 300 in Fig. 7. These chip sets are used to illustrate the flexibility of the present invention in terms of space and power requirements to fit the sizes indicated in Figures 2 and 2. Most of the blocks illustrated in Figure 7 are current skills, so no further discussion of individual blocks is provided (with the mark 301 and the above). However, the roles of these blocks that are specifically used for interaction between the parts in the present invention are explained. The chip boundary 300 in FIG. 7 can be finally implemented as SOC. The processor provides the processing unit and the necessary bus structure to support the interaction with the different components in the input / output section 31 and the control section. even. The processing unit 5 is long and the description of the invention 160 executes the program stored in the system memory 161, which will be non-volatile 'and uses the working memory 162, which is a random access memory. The flash memory 163 will also be used to store the system status, and is mainly used for capacity information of the split optical media. System memory 161 and working memory Random access memory (RAM) 162 and processing unit 160 will be located in the general system-on-chip implementation listed in Figure 8. As illustrated in FIG. 6, the main part of the control section 41 provides a user interface control circuit 180 to be used to interact with the user's input, which is a type of button related to the assigned function . These buttons, as shown in Figure 2, are used to scroll the focus button 171 on the selection list provided by the device, the button to interrupt / reset the device 72, and in fact one of the selection buttons 173 to enter the instruction . A button 170 is used to turn the entire device on or off. There will be a flexible ribbon cable 175 to connect the control circuit 180 to the pc board 130, which covers the input / output section 31 and the processing section 42. As shown in Figure 5, the liquid crystal display (LCD) i76 on the cover functions as a window for command interaction, status display, and content display. As shown in Fig. 7, there is an LCD display control 175 to generate power supply in the X direction and the y direction of the LCD based on the information from the main buffer 162. In order to make the processing unit smaller and consume less power as much as possible, the processing logic is mainly compensated by a state machine to determine the correct logic sequence to be processed.

Management task 'DVD drive read, 5? Machine; it reads any other media and port where the processing unit is located (玖, invention description Figure 11) to reflect the state of the system (see Figure 10_2 ). The state machine also reflects when it has been commanded by the user from the control buttons and what it is (Figure 12). The control part will also have a video encoder to convert the image data into a TV signal for the video display on the device's cover and a video connector m for the τν line. The chipset to be implemented as the example shown in Figure 8 has registers for the state machine; additional components are required for them. The state machine describes how the user uses the device and how the device works. -The user can place any media unit / container at any time. As shown in the nth figure, Xingyou ... Eritaguchi has power source%, and the circuit logic device detects the presence of media for any unit. The root chest measurement is used to set the existence bit in the state machine register. The device supports 5 different media types. For each media unit is a set of bits 6 to bit n. A user turns on the device by ㈣τ as shown in Figure 2. Once the power is turned on, the device displays a list of commands and queries to let the user scroll through the list displayed on the LCD 176 with a button 171 selection. Until a user selects the desired action and enters it with a button. Pressing 172 allows the user to cancel the selection and redo the motion and selection again. When the user allows the selection to proceed without pressing the button 172, it is based on the selected operation mode. If you have more than one choice, the peripheral mode, recording mode or playback mode, ‘Shangzhi prompts the user to make a media selection; otherwise, the device subscription will only work until completion. The inquiry operation causes the device to display the CD / DVD capacity. If there are options, the other choices need to be more specific to the user. For example, if there are more than 3 media in the device and the user sets the recording mode, 玖, invention description, the device asks for additional options on the two units to participate in the operation and its individual input / output or coming / going Roles. When the number of units with media presence is less than required for operation, the device issues a warning to the user to check the media to see if they are correctly located in the unit. Once the error is corrected, the operation device will accept the user interruption at any time, and it will attempt to complete the progress before the reaction is interrupted. Is this type of delay not user-allowable? It is important to ensure the security of the media, especially in the recording mode. The user presses the button 170 again to send a power-off operation signal so that the device issues an interruption to the operation being performed and only turns off the power when all the units confirm the interruption. Alternatively: The display window shown in Figure 2 may be a larger window to allow the playback of the images recorded on the CD / DVD to confirm the successful completion of the memory dump of the memory media. When using a larger display, the device actually turns into a portable DVD player, which is commercially available today. The size of the unit may be smaller for smaller-sized optical media, for example, a 4 cm radius optical media versus a 6 cni radius optical media described in this application. The memory media container can be detached from the device and can be connected to the device with other USB-2 connectors if necessary. [Brief description of the formula] Figure 1 is a top view of the device of the present invention; Figure 2 is a rear view of the device of the present invention; Figure 3 is a right side view of the device of the present invention; Bottom view; FIG. 5 is a schematic perspective view of the device of the present invention; FIG. 6 is a further schematic perspective view of the device of the present invention; FIG. 7 is a system block diagram of the device of the present invention; The possible combinations of wafers available for the device; Figure 9 is a schematic diagram of the state machine in the device of the present invention; Figure 10-1 is a schematic diagram of the state of the system of the present invention;

Figure 10-2 is a schematic diagram of the operating state of the state machine in the present invention; Figure 11 is a schematic diagram of another operating state of the state machine in the present invention; and 10 and 12 are schematic diagrams of another operating state of the state machine in the present invention . [Representative symbol table for main components of round type]

4 ... CF slot 100 ... body 5 ".MM, MS, SD slot 101, 140, 150 ... CD read / 30 ... Universal Serial Bus-Write mechanism 2 (USB-2) port 160 ... Processor 31 ... I / O section 161 ... System memory 40 ... Firewire (IEEE 1394) port 162 ... RAM 41 ... Control section 16 3 ... Flash memory 42 ... Processing sections 170, 172, 173 ... Buttons 50, 60 ························· The data transfer control 311. &Quot; RAM Judgment 312 --- USB-2 313 ... IEEE 1394 314 ... DVD-DSP 315--CD-DSP 316 ... Target search 317 ... Data splitter 318 ... Dynamic writing strategy 319 ... Digital Servo 320 ... MPEG Decoder 321, 322. " DAC / ADC 323 ... Video DAC 324 ... Audio DAC 325 ... Driver 326_ " RF Amplifier

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Claims (1)

1225196 Patent application scope 1. A memory supply station comprising: a data receiving device for receiving data from at least one integrated circuit memory medium; and a data receiving device operable in a recording mode to receive data from the data receiving device The received data is recorded in an optical drive device in an optical medium. 2. If the memory supply station according to item 丨 of the patent application scope, further includes a portable mask for covering the data receiving device and the optical driving device. 3. If the scope of patent application is the first! The memory supply station of the item, wherein the data receiving device includes at least one flash memory container. 4. If the memory supply station of item 3 of the patent application scope, the data receiving device further includes at least one of a FireWire port and a USB port. 5. The memory supply station according to any one of the aforementioned patent applications, further comprising a display, and the optical drive device is further operable in a playback mode to play an image recorded in the optical medium on the display. 6. If the memory supply station of item 5 of the patent application scope further includes a self-sufficient processing device to control the operation of the optical drive device from the data receiving device to the optical drive device during operation of the optical drive device in the recording mode Data transmission and data transmission from the optical drive to the display during operation of the optical drive in the playback mode. 7. The memory supply station according to item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the optical medium is one of a compact disc and a digital multi-function disc. 15