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Perception Digital Limited

Sai Kit Lai

Kai Kin Chan

Jack Lau

Chi Ying Tsui

Roger Shu Kwan Cheng

Wing Chau Chan

Chi Wai Yung

Kin Ping Ng

Yuk Hang Leung

Jimmy Tai Kwan Tang

A personal audio player has a housing, an audio output device in the housing and an audio player in the housing and coupled with the output device for storing and playing audio files. Multiple display panels are located on the housing. Each display panel is controlled to have a unique presentation format for presenting different information to a user. A user interface on the housing has different illumination colors respectively corresponding to different operation modes of the audio player. A lyrics processor outputs lyric text to one of the display panels in synchronisation with playing of a corresponding audio file.

Personal audio player

A musical jukebox is disclosed which provides for: fast archiving of songs; a flexible user interface; easy and convenient entry of, access to and/or display of data relating to songs archived by the jukebox; easy and convenient search and locate capabilities for locating, reviewing, retrieving and/or playing songs stored in the jukebox; and low cost relative to the functionality, features, conveniences and user-friendliness provided by the jukebox. Fast of flush archiving of songs (as well as other data and signals) is accomplished by first saving sets of data without compression, which allows the data to be entered quickly, and then, compressing later at an appropriate time. A unique MP3 bit allocation encoding scheme is used to compress data. A unique memory allocation supports fast data archiving. The user interface employs two-way communication between a remote control and the jukebox. A searchable song database is structured to enable very fast searching by music category, and also by title and artist. The jukebox is provided with an on-board song track database to automatically identify new songs input to the jukebox.

Digital multimedia jukebox

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Hong Kong, China

Sai Kit Lai