CA1186411A - Portable data processing and storage unit - Google Patents
Portable data processing and storage unitInfo
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- G—PHYSICS
- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11C—STATIC STORES
- G11C7/00—Arrangements for writing information into, or reading information out from, a digital store
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- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11C—STATIC STORES
- G11C19/00—Digital stores in which the information is moved stepwise, e.g. shift registers
- G11C19/02—Digital stores in which the information is moved stepwise, e.g. shift registers using magnetic elements
- G11C19/08—Digital stores in which the information is moved stepwise, e.g. shift registers using magnetic elements using thin films in plane structure
- G11C19/0875—Organisation of a plurality of magnetic shift registers
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- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
- G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
- G10H1/0033—Recording/reproducing or transmission of music for electrophonic musical instruments
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- G11C7/16—Storage of analogue signals in digital stores using an arrangement comprising analogue/digital [A/D] converters, digital memories and digital/analogue [D/A] converters
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- G—PHYSICS
- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
- G10H2250/00—Aspects of algorithms or signal processing methods without intrinsic musical character, yet specifically adapted for or used in electrophonic musical processing
- G10H2250/541—Details of musical waveform synthesis, i.e. audio waveshape processing from individual wavetable samples, independently of their origin or of the sound they represent
- G10H2250/571—Waveform compression, adapted for music synthesisers, sound banks or wavetables
- G10H2250/591—DPCM [delta pulse code modulation]
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Abstract
Abstract:
Portable data processing and storage system A credit card size portable system comprises (a) a memory (22) for storage serially of digital data, especially of sound analogue signal which has been digitally encoded, (b) decoder means (26) for converting the memory output into analogue form, preferably several decoders each for one sound band, (c) a control register (34) for controlling input and output of data from the memory (22) and which is responsive to control data present in the input and output stream, and input (14) and output (15) for data entering and leaving the card system.
Memory (a) can be of magnetic bubbles, of 8 megabyte size, which records 3? minutes of music.
A card is readily programmed with the digital data and can be stored or transported for replay of sound signal as desired, in place of conventional discs or cassettes.
The control data bits are detected by the control register and serve to control the recording and replay steps.
The digital data may he replayed directly from the memory without passing through the decoders, for input into another memory upon command from the control register.
A replay unit includes a controller and decoders, for producing analogue data for sound reproduction.
Portable data processing and storage system A credit card size portable system comprises (a) a memory (22) for storage serially of digital data, especially of sound analogue signal which has been digitally encoded, (b) decoder means (26) for converting the memory output into analogue form, preferably several decoders each for one sound band, (c) a control register (34) for controlling input and output of data from the memory (22) and which is responsive to control data present in the input and output stream, and input (14) and output (15) for data entering and leaving the card system.
Memory (a) can be of magnetic bubbles, of 8 megabyte size, which records 3? minutes of music.
A card is readily programmed with the digital data and can be stored or transported for replay of sound signal as desired, in place of conventional discs or cassettes.
The control data bits are detected by the control register and serve to control the recording and replay steps.
The digital data may he replayed directly from the memory without passing through the decoders, for input into another memory upon command from the control register.
A replay unit includes a controller and decoders, for producing analogue data for sound reproduction.
Description
This invention relates to a dat~ proGessing and storage system, and more particularly to such a system which is constructed so that information in analogue form can be stored in a memory in digital form and can be retrieved as desired and reproduced again in analogue fo~m. The system is particularly intended for the storage of music.
The currently used units for recording music are gramophone records or tape cassettes. We have devised a new method 10 of recording which uses smaller memory units, which are more reliable and robust and for which no moving parts are needed for reproduction, and which units may readily be reprogrammed.
The background to the invention is as follows.
15 The systems o~ the present invention are portable, most conveniently of the credit card size~ wherein da-ta is recorded in magnetic form; systems of this type with magnetic bubble memories are known, e.g. as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,786,445 and European Published Patent 20 Applications Nos. 13191 and 13192. me card shown in EPA
13191 contains a pair of memories and two controlling unit~. Such cards and systems are used purely with digital information, corresponding to numerical codes 9 such as is required ~or banking or identification purposes9 the input 25 being by means of a key-board, and there has been no prior suggestion o~ using them for re~ording analogue information. Cards of ~uch type have the memories arranged so as -to allow immediate recall of the data in any portion of the memory.
30 It is known to store audio infor~ation in an electric memory system, ~ut not hitherto in a conveni2nt portable and ~ 8~
non volatile memory unit~ U.S. Patent No 3,886,189 described a memory ~ased on a fsrroelectric capac~tor or saturable ferromagnetic reactor of a non~uniform cross-section, but playback from such a memory is destructive of information thereon.
Equipment for the conversion of speech si~nals to digital form is now well known, and some of this equipment ~wave ~orm coders~ is suitable for converting music to digital form.
10 U.S~ Pa-tent 4,296,664 describes sound reproduction appara-tus in which a decoder converts digital pitch memory elements into analogue form; the memory has eight outputs and the apparatus is not simple and portable as with the system of the present invention.
15 In summary, we have de~ised a simple and convenient data storage sys-tem which is used in conjunction with a digital-to analogue decoder in such a way -that a digitally encoded signal can be transmitted to the unit and retrieved in analogue ~orm.
20 According -to the present invention we provide a portable data processing and s~torage system, which comprises: (a) a memory ~or the storage serially of digital data~ (b~
means, connected in circuit to the memory, for converting output data ~rom the memory to analogue form, and ~c) means 25 for controlling the input and output of data from the memory and which is responsive to control data present in the input or ou-tput data stream 7 all contained on a port~
able card~ and on the housing of the card one or two connectors by which the system can be connected to an 30 input o~ digital data and/or to an output for receipt o~
the digital or analogue data, and one or -two connectors to a power supply for the system.
The method o~ recording data using this system or card comprises feeding into the card an analogue signal which has been encoded into digital ~orm~ together with appropriate control data to control the recording and replay steps.
The invention also includes said card when appropriately programmed ready for recording and replay of a specified type of data; and the card containing stored digital data.
10 A recording system can comprise a plurality of the cards and a single data input source of digital data corres-ponding to encoded analogue signal, e.g. of music. A
replay system is described which allows retrieval of -the data from one or more of the cards, for supply to sound 15 reproduction means.
m e memory preferably consists of magnetic bubble elements, which are known to be used ~or storage of da-ta but not for storage of data in digital form for retrieval serially.
'~he invention will now be described in detail with 20 reference to preferred embodîments shGwn diagrammatically in -the accompanying drawings, wherein:-Fig. 1 is a block diagram o~ a portable data processingand storage card according to the invention; and Fig. 2 is a block diagram of a replay unit suitable for 25 use with the card shown in Fig~ 1.
Referring to Fig. 1~ a card 10 is pre~erably of standard credit card areal size; i-ts -thiGkness, to accomodate a bubble memory, may be 3 to 4 mm. The card has electrical power connections 12, 130 The power is supplied to all the ~ 4 ~
components by appropriate internal connections 9 which are not shown. The inte~nal links shown in -the drawings are all for transmission o~ data, in the directions shown by the arrows, and all components and connectors except for the memory can be formed as integrated circuits on one or a few silicon sliees Two connectors 14, 15 are sho~l for i~put and output of data. These connections can be for connection to an optical fibre data communications system; in that case an 10 optical receiver and transmitter of known type is required to convert the optical signals to electrical signals. The transmission of data optically has advantages in reduction in signal noise and interference~
Within the card there are a signal detector and transmitter 15 18 connected to an input control register 20, for inspec-tion of input data, and then to the memory 22 which comprises a silicon slice o~ magnetic bubbles between ~wo permanent magnets. On the output side there is a demulti-plexer 24 linked to a plurality of digital-to-analogue 20 decoders 2~ the outputs of which are combined in a signal mixer 28, and in parallel therewith ~l output control register 30; the outputs of mixer 28 and register 30 join in an output multiplexer 21. A controller 34 is lînked $o both the control registers 20, 30 and to the demultiplexer 25 24 by the respective links 38. 39, 409 41, 42 and via a memory controlling clock 36 to the memory 22. In place of the single unit 18 shown, there could be separate receptor and transmission units connected respectively to the input 14 and output 15.
30 All the illustrated links ~connectors) are serial, to minimise the number o~ links needed.
Prior to being used, the control unit 34 is programmed in the factory so as to correctly deal wi-th digitized analogue data 9 control data and analogue data.
The operation of the system is illustrated as follows for the storage of sound, especially music. The music signal is encoded (outside the îllustrated system), into digital form, by any suitable technique; that kno~m as differen-tial pulse code modulation (DPCM) is suitable The encoding can be optimised by the inclusiQn o~ control signals with the sound data. (A pulse code modulation coder quantises sampled sound amplitudes; the di:Eferential technique is more e~icient and utilises the redundancies present in the sound, the change in analogue signal is recorded àigitally at predetermined levels; the method is predictive and the predictive alogrithm is externally programmable.) The sound ~requency spectrum is subdivided into frequency bands each of which is encoded separately in a sub-band encoder; each frequency domain is programmable, as is the amount of information needed to encode its signal in each time interval, so that the information is directed towards the parts of the sound waveband where it is most needed. The number o~ frequency bands may correspond to the number of instruments/voices in an ensemble, and should correspond to the number of decoders 260 For recording in stereo, the encoding pre~erably is done by encoding one channel in terms only of its difference from the other channel 9 usually this difference will be small enough to allow encoding with su~stantial saving in in~ormation over that needed for separate encoding o~ t~o channels. An 8 megabyte memory 22 should allow recording o~ at least 3~ minutes of music, i.e. corresponding to one side of a '~singlesl' record disc.
The memory could be larger to provide a longer recording time. The encoding should be done b~y use of a program which needs minimal storage in the memory 22.
With a ~ubble memory7 it is neoessary to provide, in the encoding and replay systems, means ~or generating a rotating magne~ic field which is required to allow the data to move within the memory The encoded data is then fed into inpu-t 14 on the card system; if this feed is ~y optical rather than electrical signal, then the optical signal is converted by photo-electric means to electrical signal at the input stage within the card. Electrical power is applied at 12, 13 to the system during input and output (no power is needed during the storage o~ the encoded information, the bubble 10 memory 22 persists without power). The first of the integrated microcircuit components is the signal detector and transmitter 18, this holds the data as needed until it can be subsequently handled. The data stream, in serial order, is passed to the input control register 20 where 15 data which are recognised to be control instruction (not digitised analogue data) are sent via link 38 to the main controller 34. The controller then instruc-ts the memory 22 and its clock to be ready to receive and store the incoming data, and it then instructs the input register 20 20 to release the encloded analogue data into the memory. I~e contro]ler can be arranged to send signals externally o~
the card to show whether or not memory storage is success~ully taking place, and to lns-truct the system supplying the data as to what action to take if error 25 conditions occur during recording.
i The memory 22 is preferably organised so as to appear to be a circular shift register o~ the required size and is clocked at the same speed, controlled by the memory control clock 36, during recording and replay. One 1'bit" is 30 presented to the memory at a time.
When recording is completed, which can take a very short time 9 the card is removed from the input recorder and can be stored or tra~sported as required.
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For replay of the recorded data, the card i~ placed in an appropriate replay location (see Fig. 2) with an input 44 thereof in contact with the card output 15. Some means is needed to signal to the controller 34 that replay is to take place; this could be by use of a signal -through input 14 via the signal detector and transmitter 18, regis-ter 20 and lir~ 38 to controller 34, or via a separate input, e.g. on another face of the card~ perhaps actuated by a small press-button. Cn receipt of the appropriate signal, the 10 controller ~4 instructs the memory controller clock 36 to prepare the memory 22 for output of its s-tored data; the controller also wi]l instruct the demultiplexer 24 (and decoders 26) how to deal with the data which they will receive, if this information is not already adequately 15 programmed into these components. mis output will be at a speed much faster (at least 100 times) than that required for actual sound reproduction.
During replay, there is no need to synchronise the memory clock 36 with an ex-ternal signal, as there is in the 20 recording mode where it must be synchronised with -the incoming data. No instructions will therefore be issued to -the clock.
The instructions to the decoders Z6 and the demultiplexer 24 will be obtained from the memory 22, since they are supplied 25 to the card with the encoded signalO The controller 34 may simply signal to the various devices whe~ the appropriate ~ontrol information is output from the memory~
The controller may recognise further instructions at any stage during replay, and may cause some or all o~ the 30 devices to be reprogrammed accordingly~ The controller will scan all data from the memory and determine which items are intended for it. The demultiplexer 24 will either discriminate between signal and control information itself or will be ins-tructed to do so by the controller.
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The demul-tiplexer 24 directs digital data to the appropri-ate decoder 26 in accordance with the sub-band of the data.
The decoder can read the data at the required slower repro-duction rate by taking, e.g. only one out of e~ery 100 bits of information presented to it a-t a time; the intervening 99 bits will be read on subsequent cycles o~ memory, so the data in the memory is held in an interleaved fashion~
Control or status signals in the data stream ~rom the memory are separated, e.g. by another regis-ter, and passed to the 10 output register 30, and can be used via link 41 to keep the controller 24 informed of progress of the replay; the controller simultaneously generates "status'l signals.
The decoders 26 operate in reverse manner to the encoder used originally, the analogue data streams produced are 15 combined in mixer 28, and this wound signal is combined in the multiplexer 32 with the status output signals, and the mixed signal is passed to the signal de-tector transmi-tter 18 and there to the output 15 of the card and to the inpu-t 44 of the replay location. The generated s-tatus signals 20 should of course not be o:f audible pitch; they can be used to control the replay apparatus, e.g. to switch off when the replay has finished. Once started, the replay continues until the end of the recording is reached or until another cornmand is sent to -the card 25 The data normally remains in the bubble 22 after each replay.
In another mode o use, the system can be programmed so that the output is of the data in its digital fOrm9 the controller 34 then instruct the output register 30 to pass the data from the memory 22 directly to -the output multi~
30 plexer 32~ without passing through the decoders 26; such a digital output can be usedg as mentioned above~ as input into another memory; e.g~ of another portable card of the inven~
tion. (The digital output cannot of course be reproduced as intelligible sound without subsequent decoding.) The controller 34 eould be programmed to keep a count of the number of times that digital data is reproducedy and îf desired to cease to allow ~urther such reproductions above a sp~cified maximum number of times; thus the owner of copy-right sound data could prevent unlicensed eopying, since acopy of sa-tisfactory quality can only be made from the digital data1 not from the normal analogue output.
Referring to Fig. ~, there is shown a diagram of the essential parts o~ a replay unit suitable for use with the 10 card already described. Power outputs 50, 52~ and data connections 44, 46 are arranged to receive the connections 12, 137 14 and 15 of the card shown in Fig. 1. A power supply 80 supplies power to sockets 507 52, and also (by connections not shown) to the other components of the replay 15 unit.
lf the data is to be fed in optical ~orm to -the card, an optical receiver and transmitter replace the connections 44 and 46 respectively.
A control unit 58, an input regis-ter 60 ? a signal detector 20 and transmitter 63 and digital-to-analogue decoders 62, each o~ which can be a microchip, are connected in the manner shown.
For stereo reproduction, left/right channel separation i5 also provided in the decoder 62. This decoder is connected 25 to at least one audio frequency filter; in the diagram three such ~ilters are shown, 7Z and 70 being for left-hand and right-hand stereo music channels and 68 being available for speech reproduction3 or digital signals, i.e. for a VDU
or other display means~
3~ The controller 58 is connected at 76 to external control means, such as press-buttons, for the replay unit (in the manner of a tape cassette machine), and also to signal means, e.g. of lights such as LE.Dg for indicating the mode of operation o~ the unit. During replay the controller 58 may be programmed to generate at intervals signals which may be fed via links 76 to external means such as a video recorder9 to provide sound and picture synchronisation.
In use, a card containing encoded data is placed with its respective connections 12, 13, 14, 15 in contact with the sockets 44, 46, 50, 52, power is supplied from unit 80, a command is given to the control unit 58 to commence replay 10 and the recovered data passes to the input register 60, which removes c~ntrol data from the stream of data, which is passed onto the controller 58, and allows the remaining sound data to pass to the decoder 62 or 66 and thence it is supplied to the filters 68 etc., and thence to an amplifier 15 and loud ~speakers or headphones (not shown), as desired for sound reproduction.
The third channel 68, for speech or digital signals is only available when the card output is in digital form; alter natively, four channels can be provided.
20 When analogue signals are transmitted, the digital-to-analogue decoder 62 is bypassed, and the data can instead be in stereo for~ and separation in -the decoder 66 and passed to the respective stereo channels at 70 and 72.
The replay unit, apart from amplifier and loud speakers or 25 headphones, can be very compact~ e.g. little larger than the storage system card itself, and this if used with headphones, and batteries as the power supply 58, the entire system can be portable. The unit can have a slot extending within its body, for receipt of a card.
30 Alternaîively, for use in the home, vehicle or commercial applications~ a single replay unit can be arranged t~ receive a plurality of cards, and the csntrol means can be arranged so that the cards can be played in any speclfied sequence, by respective connection of the appropriate card interface, and signal means can be provided to show which card is being played at any specified time.
The invention may be used in the following ways.
As a replacement of conventional discs or cassettes the card of the invention is highly convenient and portable.
record shop can have a stock of "blank" cards and can encode one with the desired piece of music from a data store in 10 the shop or at a distant location, when requested by a customer. A data store in the shop could be held on one of the card systems of the invention, instructed to give a digital output.
The data stored on the system could be analogue data other 15 than sound, e.g. for recording scientific, technical, medical or computer information.
For recording of music the device of the invention has advantages of small size, reliabili-ty and absence of moving parts. Since the recording of sound data can be rapidly 20 performed in a shop, there are considerable savings in costs of reproduction, distribu-tion and the cost of stocks, compared to conventional gramophone reoord discs and pre-recorded tape cassette.s. Moreover, the user can have his card system re-programmed with a ~resh recording when 25 he has no further use for his present recording.
An input to the system could be set up ln a shop or other place accessible to the public and controlled by an autsmatic mechanism so that upon insertion of appropriate money or credit card, either the purchaser's existing ~0 card could be reprogrammed with desired music or a new card would be sold, likewise progr ~ed as desired, or the card ~ 8 - ~2 -could be replayed there ~or the user to hear9 in the manner of a "juke bo2l'~
The currently used units for recording music are gramophone records or tape cassettes. We have devised a new method 10 of recording which uses smaller memory units, which are more reliable and robust and for which no moving parts are needed for reproduction, and which units may readily be reprogrammed.
The background to the invention is as follows.
15 The systems o~ the present invention are portable, most conveniently of the credit card size~ wherein da-ta is recorded in magnetic form; systems of this type with magnetic bubble memories are known, e.g. as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,786,445 and European Published Patent 20 Applications Nos. 13191 and 13192. me card shown in EPA
13191 contains a pair of memories and two controlling unit~. Such cards and systems are used purely with digital information, corresponding to numerical codes 9 such as is required ~or banking or identification purposes9 the input 25 being by means of a key-board, and there has been no prior suggestion o~ using them for re~ording analogue information. Cards of ~uch type have the memories arranged so as -to allow immediate recall of the data in any portion of the memory.
30 It is known to store audio infor~ation in an electric memory system, ~ut not hitherto in a conveni2nt portable and ~ 8~
non volatile memory unit~ U.S. Patent No 3,886,189 described a memory ~ased on a fsrroelectric capac~tor or saturable ferromagnetic reactor of a non~uniform cross-section, but playback from such a memory is destructive of information thereon.
Equipment for the conversion of speech si~nals to digital form is now well known, and some of this equipment ~wave ~orm coders~ is suitable for converting music to digital form.
10 U.S~ Pa-tent 4,296,664 describes sound reproduction appara-tus in which a decoder converts digital pitch memory elements into analogue form; the memory has eight outputs and the apparatus is not simple and portable as with the system of the present invention.
15 In summary, we have de~ised a simple and convenient data storage sys-tem which is used in conjunction with a digital-to analogue decoder in such a way -that a digitally encoded signal can be transmitted to the unit and retrieved in analogue ~orm.
20 According -to the present invention we provide a portable data processing and s~torage system, which comprises: (a) a memory ~or the storage serially of digital data~ (b~
means, connected in circuit to the memory, for converting output data ~rom the memory to analogue form, and ~c) means 25 for controlling the input and output of data from the memory and which is responsive to control data present in the input or ou-tput data stream 7 all contained on a port~
able card~ and on the housing of the card one or two connectors by which the system can be connected to an 30 input o~ digital data and/or to an output for receipt o~
the digital or analogue data, and one or -two connectors to a power supply for the system.
The method o~ recording data using this system or card comprises feeding into the card an analogue signal which has been encoded into digital ~orm~ together with appropriate control data to control the recording and replay steps.
The invention also includes said card when appropriately programmed ready for recording and replay of a specified type of data; and the card containing stored digital data.
10 A recording system can comprise a plurality of the cards and a single data input source of digital data corres-ponding to encoded analogue signal, e.g. of music. A
replay system is described which allows retrieval of -the data from one or more of the cards, for supply to sound 15 reproduction means.
m e memory preferably consists of magnetic bubble elements, which are known to be used ~or storage of da-ta but not for storage of data in digital form for retrieval serially.
'~he invention will now be described in detail with 20 reference to preferred embodîments shGwn diagrammatically in -the accompanying drawings, wherein:-Fig. 1 is a block diagram o~ a portable data processingand storage card according to the invention; and Fig. 2 is a block diagram of a replay unit suitable for 25 use with the card shown in Fig~ 1.
Referring to Fig. 1~ a card 10 is pre~erably of standard credit card areal size; i-ts -thiGkness, to accomodate a bubble memory, may be 3 to 4 mm. The card has electrical power connections 12, 130 The power is supplied to all the ~ 4 ~
components by appropriate internal connections 9 which are not shown. The inte~nal links shown in -the drawings are all for transmission o~ data, in the directions shown by the arrows, and all components and connectors except for the memory can be formed as integrated circuits on one or a few silicon sliees Two connectors 14, 15 are sho~l for i~put and output of data. These connections can be for connection to an optical fibre data communications system; in that case an 10 optical receiver and transmitter of known type is required to convert the optical signals to electrical signals. The transmission of data optically has advantages in reduction in signal noise and interference~
Within the card there are a signal detector and transmitter 15 18 connected to an input control register 20, for inspec-tion of input data, and then to the memory 22 which comprises a silicon slice o~ magnetic bubbles between ~wo permanent magnets. On the output side there is a demulti-plexer 24 linked to a plurality of digital-to-analogue 20 decoders 2~ the outputs of which are combined in a signal mixer 28, and in parallel therewith ~l output control register 30; the outputs of mixer 28 and register 30 join in an output multiplexer 21. A controller 34 is lînked $o both the control registers 20, 30 and to the demultiplexer 25 24 by the respective links 38. 39, 409 41, 42 and via a memory controlling clock 36 to the memory 22. In place of the single unit 18 shown, there could be separate receptor and transmission units connected respectively to the input 14 and output 15.
30 All the illustrated links ~connectors) are serial, to minimise the number o~ links needed.
Prior to being used, the control unit 34 is programmed in the factory so as to correctly deal wi-th digitized analogue data 9 control data and analogue data.
The operation of the system is illustrated as follows for the storage of sound, especially music. The music signal is encoded (outside the îllustrated system), into digital form, by any suitable technique; that kno~m as differen-tial pulse code modulation (DPCM) is suitable The encoding can be optimised by the inclusiQn o~ control signals with the sound data. (A pulse code modulation coder quantises sampled sound amplitudes; the di:Eferential technique is more e~icient and utilises the redundancies present in the sound, the change in analogue signal is recorded àigitally at predetermined levels; the method is predictive and the predictive alogrithm is externally programmable.) The sound ~requency spectrum is subdivided into frequency bands each of which is encoded separately in a sub-band encoder; each frequency domain is programmable, as is the amount of information needed to encode its signal in each time interval, so that the information is directed towards the parts of the sound waveband where it is most needed. The number o~ frequency bands may correspond to the number of instruments/voices in an ensemble, and should correspond to the number of decoders 260 For recording in stereo, the encoding pre~erably is done by encoding one channel in terms only of its difference from the other channel 9 usually this difference will be small enough to allow encoding with su~stantial saving in in~ormation over that needed for separate encoding o~ t~o channels. An 8 megabyte memory 22 should allow recording o~ at least 3~ minutes of music, i.e. corresponding to one side of a '~singlesl' record disc.
The memory could be larger to provide a longer recording time. The encoding should be done b~y use of a program which needs minimal storage in the memory 22.
With a ~ubble memory7 it is neoessary to provide, in the encoding and replay systems, means ~or generating a rotating magne~ic field which is required to allow the data to move within the memory The encoded data is then fed into inpu-t 14 on the card system; if this feed is ~y optical rather than electrical signal, then the optical signal is converted by photo-electric means to electrical signal at the input stage within the card. Electrical power is applied at 12, 13 to the system during input and output (no power is needed during the storage o~ the encoded information, the bubble 10 memory 22 persists without power). The first of the integrated microcircuit components is the signal detector and transmitter 18, this holds the data as needed until it can be subsequently handled. The data stream, in serial order, is passed to the input control register 20 where 15 data which are recognised to be control instruction (not digitised analogue data) are sent via link 38 to the main controller 34. The controller then instruc-ts the memory 22 and its clock to be ready to receive and store the incoming data, and it then instructs the input register 20 20 to release the encloded analogue data into the memory. I~e contro]ler can be arranged to send signals externally o~
the card to show whether or not memory storage is success~ully taking place, and to lns-truct the system supplying the data as to what action to take if error 25 conditions occur during recording.
i The memory 22 is preferably organised so as to appear to be a circular shift register o~ the required size and is clocked at the same speed, controlled by the memory control clock 36, during recording and replay. One 1'bit" is 30 presented to the memory at a time.
When recording is completed, which can take a very short time 9 the card is removed from the input recorder and can be stored or tra~sported as required.
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For replay of the recorded data, the card i~ placed in an appropriate replay location (see Fig. 2) with an input 44 thereof in contact with the card output 15. Some means is needed to signal to the controller 34 that replay is to take place; this could be by use of a signal -through input 14 via the signal detector and transmitter 18, regis-ter 20 and lir~ 38 to controller 34, or via a separate input, e.g. on another face of the card~ perhaps actuated by a small press-button. Cn receipt of the appropriate signal, the 10 controller ~4 instructs the memory controller clock 36 to prepare the memory 22 for output of its s-tored data; the controller also wi]l instruct the demultiplexer 24 (and decoders 26) how to deal with the data which they will receive, if this information is not already adequately 15 programmed into these components. mis output will be at a speed much faster (at least 100 times) than that required for actual sound reproduction.
During replay, there is no need to synchronise the memory clock 36 with an ex-ternal signal, as there is in the 20 recording mode where it must be synchronised with -the incoming data. No instructions will therefore be issued to -the clock.
The instructions to the decoders Z6 and the demultiplexer 24 will be obtained from the memory 22, since they are supplied 25 to the card with the encoded signalO The controller 34 may simply signal to the various devices whe~ the appropriate ~ontrol information is output from the memory~
The controller may recognise further instructions at any stage during replay, and may cause some or all o~ the 30 devices to be reprogrammed accordingly~ The controller will scan all data from the memory and determine which items are intended for it. The demultiplexer 24 will either discriminate between signal and control information itself or will be ins-tructed to do so by the controller.
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The demul-tiplexer 24 directs digital data to the appropri-ate decoder 26 in accordance with the sub-band of the data.
The decoder can read the data at the required slower repro-duction rate by taking, e.g. only one out of e~ery 100 bits of information presented to it a-t a time; the intervening 99 bits will be read on subsequent cycles o~ memory, so the data in the memory is held in an interleaved fashion~
Control or status signals in the data stream ~rom the memory are separated, e.g. by another regis-ter, and passed to the 10 output register 30, and can be used via link 41 to keep the controller 24 informed of progress of the replay; the controller simultaneously generates "status'l signals.
The decoders 26 operate in reverse manner to the encoder used originally, the analogue data streams produced are 15 combined in mixer 28, and this wound signal is combined in the multiplexer 32 with the status output signals, and the mixed signal is passed to the signal de-tector transmi-tter 18 and there to the output 15 of the card and to the inpu-t 44 of the replay location. The generated s-tatus signals 20 should of course not be o:f audible pitch; they can be used to control the replay apparatus, e.g. to switch off when the replay has finished. Once started, the replay continues until the end of the recording is reached or until another cornmand is sent to -the card 25 The data normally remains in the bubble 22 after each replay.
In another mode o use, the system can be programmed so that the output is of the data in its digital fOrm9 the controller 34 then instruct the output register 30 to pass the data from the memory 22 directly to -the output multi~
30 plexer 32~ without passing through the decoders 26; such a digital output can be usedg as mentioned above~ as input into another memory; e.g~ of another portable card of the inven~
tion. (The digital output cannot of course be reproduced as intelligible sound without subsequent decoding.) The controller 34 eould be programmed to keep a count of the number of times that digital data is reproducedy and îf desired to cease to allow ~urther such reproductions above a sp~cified maximum number of times; thus the owner of copy-right sound data could prevent unlicensed eopying, since acopy of sa-tisfactory quality can only be made from the digital data1 not from the normal analogue output.
Referring to Fig. ~, there is shown a diagram of the essential parts o~ a replay unit suitable for use with the 10 card already described. Power outputs 50, 52~ and data connections 44, 46 are arranged to receive the connections 12, 137 14 and 15 of the card shown in Fig. 1. A power supply 80 supplies power to sockets 507 52, and also (by connections not shown) to the other components of the replay 15 unit.
lf the data is to be fed in optical ~orm to -the card, an optical receiver and transmitter replace the connections 44 and 46 respectively.
A control unit 58, an input regis-ter 60 ? a signal detector 20 and transmitter 63 and digital-to-analogue decoders 62, each o~ which can be a microchip, are connected in the manner shown.
For stereo reproduction, left/right channel separation i5 also provided in the decoder 62. This decoder is connected 25 to at least one audio frequency filter; in the diagram three such ~ilters are shown, 7Z and 70 being for left-hand and right-hand stereo music channels and 68 being available for speech reproduction3 or digital signals, i.e. for a VDU
or other display means~
3~ The controller 58 is connected at 76 to external control means, such as press-buttons, for the replay unit (in the manner of a tape cassette machine), and also to signal means, e.g. of lights such as LE.Dg for indicating the mode of operation o~ the unit. During replay the controller 58 may be programmed to generate at intervals signals which may be fed via links 76 to external means such as a video recorder9 to provide sound and picture synchronisation.
In use, a card containing encoded data is placed with its respective connections 12, 13, 14, 15 in contact with the sockets 44, 46, 50, 52, power is supplied from unit 80, a command is given to the control unit 58 to commence replay 10 and the recovered data passes to the input register 60, which removes c~ntrol data from the stream of data, which is passed onto the controller 58, and allows the remaining sound data to pass to the decoder 62 or 66 and thence it is supplied to the filters 68 etc., and thence to an amplifier 15 and loud ~speakers or headphones (not shown), as desired for sound reproduction.
The third channel 68, for speech or digital signals is only available when the card output is in digital form; alter natively, four channels can be provided.
20 When analogue signals are transmitted, the digital-to-analogue decoder 62 is bypassed, and the data can instead be in stereo for~ and separation in -the decoder 66 and passed to the respective stereo channels at 70 and 72.
The replay unit, apart from amplifier and loud speakers or 25 headphones, can be very compact~ e.g. little larger than the storage system card itself, and this if used with headphones, and batteries as the power supply 58, the entire system can be portable. The unit can have a slot extending within its body, for receipt of a card.
30 Alternaîively, for use in the home, vehicle or commercial applications~ a single replay unit can be arranged t~ receive a plurality of cards, and the csntrol means can be arranged so that the cards can be played in any speclfied sequence, by respective connection of the appropriate card interface, and signal means can be provided to show which card is being played at any specified time.
The invention may be used in the following ways.
As a replacement of conventional discs or cassettes the card of the invention is highly convenient and portable.
record shop can have a stock of "blank" cards and can encode one with the desired piece of music from a data store in 10 the shop or at a distant location, when requested by a customer. A data store in the shop could be held on one of the card systems of the invention, instructed to give a digital output.
The data stored on the system could be analogue data other 15 than sound, e.g. for recording scientific, technical, medical or computer information.
For recording of music the device of the invention has advantages of small size, reliabili-ty and absence of moving parts. Since the recording of sound data can be rapidly 20 performed in a shop, there are considerable savings in costs of reproduction, distribu-tion and the cost of stocks, compared to conventional gramophone reoord discs and pre-recorded tape cassette.s. Moreover, the user can have his card system re-programmed with a ~resh recording when 25 he has no further use for his present recording.
An input to the system could be set up ln a shop or other place accessible to the public and controlled by an autsmatic mechanism so that upon insertion of appropriate money or credit card, either the purchaser's existing ~0 card could be reprogrammed with desired music or a new card would be sold, likewise progr ~ed as desired, or the card ~ 8 - ~2 -could be replayed there ~or the user to hear9 in the manner of a "juke bo2l'~
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1. A portable data processing and storage system, having a memory and means for feeding data to, and retrieving it from the memory, characterized in that the system comprises: (a) a memory for the storage serially of digital data, (b) means, connected in circuit to the memory, for converting output data from the memory to analogue form, and (c) means for con-trolling the input and output of data from the memory and which is responsive to control data present in the input or output data stream, all contained on a portable card, and on the housing of the card one or two connectors by which the system can be connected to an input of digital data or to an output for receipt of the analogue or digital form data, and one or two connectors to a power supply for the system.
2. A system as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the memory (a) consists of magnetic bubble elements.
3. A system as claimed in Claim 2, wherein the conversion means (b) comprises a plurality of decoders each programmable to convert a prescribed type of data, and links are provided to combine the outputs from the decoders before output of the data from the system.
4. A system as claimed in Claim 1, which includes a link by which the output from the memory can be passed directly in serial form to the output connector on the housing, thus bypassing the conversion means (b), upon command from the controlling means responsive to control data present in the output data stream.
5. A system as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3, which includes a control register circuit in each of the input and output streams, which registers are arranged to pass control data to the controlling means (c).
6. A system as claimed in Claim 2, wherein the memory has a capacity of at least 8 megabytes of data.
7. A system as claimed in Claim 1, containing in its memory stored data corresponding to music as the analogue input.
8. A combination of a system as claimed in Claim 1, together with means for converting analogue data to digital data to be stored in the portable system.
9. A combination of at least one system as claimed in Claim 1, together with a replay unit which includes means for supplying power to the data storage system, means for connection to the data connections of the storage system, a controller, a detector unit for removal of control data from a stream of output data from a card, and means for passing analogue form output data to sound reproduction means.
10. A method of recording data, using a combina-tion as claimed in Claim 8, which comprises feeding into the system an analogue signal which has been encoded into serial digital form, together with appropriate control data to control the recording and replay steps.
11. A method of recording and replay of data using a system as claimed in Claim 9 as defined in Claims 3 and 7, wherein each frequency band of the music has been encoded separately and is stored separately in the memory (a), and during output from the portable system the data corresponding to each band is passed, by command of the control means (c), to a respective one of the decoders (b), and output signal which is suitable for direct replay as music.
12. A method of digital reproduction of data recorded in a system as claimed in Claim 4, wherein the data output from the portable system is in its encoded digital form.
13. A method as claimed in Claim 12, wherein the encoded digital output data is used as the input to be stored in the memory of one or more other of said portable systems.
14. A method of recording and replay of data using a system as claimed in Claim 9 as defined in Claims 3 and 7, wherein each frequency band of the music has been encoded separately and is stored separately in the memory (a), and during output from the portable system the data corresponding to each band is passed, by command of the control means (c), to a respective one of the decoders (b), and the decoded analogue signals are combined to give an output signal which is suitable for direct replay as music and wherein the controller is programmed to generate at intervals signals which are passed, separately from the stream of output data, to control external synchronization means.
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