Patent ID: 7970815

Claim:
A handheld recording and/or reproducing device, comprising: a cylindrically-shaped housing case having a first end opposite a second end, wherein the housing case has a center in a longitudinal direction of the housing case between the first end and the second end, wherein a first end side of the housing case extends from the center in the longitudinal direction of the housing case to the first end, and wherein a second end side of the housing case extends from the center in the longitudinal direction of the housing case to the second end; a manipulating unit configured to be arranged on a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of said housing case at the first one end side; a strap attaching unit configured to be arranged at the first end side on a plane extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing casing, wherein the strap attaching unit is at a predetermined position spaced from the manipulating unit in a direction of the second; a jack configured to be arranged at the first side on the plane extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing casing, said jack having an opening arranged to receive a plug I inserted from a direction of the first end; a storage medium configured to store digital data; a reproducing unit; a power supply unit configured to contain a power supply and I to be arranged at the second end side of the housing case, wherein, when the power supply is within the power supply unit, a center of gravity of the device is at the second end side and the predetermined position of the strap attaching unit is spaced from the center of gravity of the device in a direction of the first end, wherein, when the power supply is within the power supply unit and a strap dangled from a neck of a user is attached to the strap attaching unit from a direction of the first end so the device is dangled vertically from the neck of the user, the first end of the housing case orients toward the neck of the user; and a control unit configured to control said reproducing unit to reproduce the stored digital data in accordance with an input from said manipulating unit, said housing case containing said storage medium, said control unit, said reproducing unit, said power supply unit and said jack configured to output an audio signal generated by said reproducing unit.