Patent ID: 8170700
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G06T,G11B,G11C

Abstract:
1. A portable audio device suitable for reproducing MPEG encoded data, the portable audio device comprising: a plurality of inputs including a forward input, a reverse input, a play control input and a random input; a non-removable data storage that stores selections of compressed digitized audio data; a display; at least one processor that decompresses the selections of compressed digitized audio data stored in the non-removable data storage for audible reproduction, that operates the portable audio device in response to selection of at least one of the plurality of inputs and that provides information to the display; and a battery; wherein, selection of the random input enables the portable audio device to reproduce the selections of compressed digitized audio data stored in the non-removable data storage in a random order; and wherein, during reproduction of a selection of compressed digitized audio data: the display provides an indication relating to a power level of the battery and a title of the selection of compressed digitized audio data; selection of the forward input causes the portable audio device to perform at least one of advance to another selection of compressed digitized audio data and advance towards the end of the selection of compressed digitized audio data; selection of the reverse input causes the portable audio device to perform at least one of return to the beginning of the selection of compressed digitized audio data and reproduce the selection of compressed digitized audio data in a reverse direction; and selection of the play control input causes the portable audio device to stop reproducing the selection of compressed digitized audio data.