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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2013
Mobilemedia Ideas Llc, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Kenichi Iida, Saitama, JP;
MobileMedia Ideas LLC, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Abstract
A portable hand-held apparatus includes a semiconductor memory, a reproduction block, a display, a control block, a housing, and an operation block configured to supply a signal to the control block depending on user manual inputs. The operation block includes a circuit at a surface of the housing configured to detect a first user manual gesture in a first direction approximately parallel to the housing surface, a second user manual gesture in a direction opposite to the first direction and also approximately parallel to the housing surface, and a third user manual gesture in a direction that is perpendicular to the housing surface. The first and second gestures are used to select a particular one of the one or more pieces of sound data, and reproduction of a particular piece of sound data occurs in response to the third gesture.