| US 7,468,682 B2 | ||
| Portable recorder/players with power-saving buffers | ||
| Christopher Altare, Oceanside, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Echo Mobile Music LLP, San Diego, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 13, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/939,849. | ||
| Application 10/939849 is a continuation in part of application No. 09/860935, filed on May 18, 2001, granted, now 6,791,481. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/205936, filed on May 18, 2000. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0185526 A1, Aug. 25, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. H03M 7/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 341—50 [369/47.13] | 36 Claims |
| 1. A method of conserving power in an electronic device reading digital data from a rotating disk storing digital data in
order to display visual images and/or produce audible sounds from the read data, the method comprising:
rotating a disk storing digital data in order to concurrently first-read digital data from the disk via a disk memory into
a buffer memory, whereupon the buffer memory becomes filled the rotating of the disk by a motor and the first-reading of the
disk via the disk memory are both stopped and the motor and the disk memory powered off; and, to the extent digital data then
exists within the buffer memory,
second-reading digital data from the buffer memory so that, concurrently with the second-reading, visual images are displayed
and/or audible sounds are produced from the second-read digital data;
wherein the second-reading, and the concurrent displaying of visual images and/or producing of audible sounds, transpire during
intervals when both the motor causing disk rotation and the disk memory are stopped and powered off because the buffer memory
is filled from the rotating disk much faster than the buffer memory is second-read.
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