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| Telephone mouthpiece cover |
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| Compact electroacoustical transducer with spider covering rear basket opening |
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| Scrambled TV-IF signal transmission system |
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| Digital audio waveform display on a video waveform display instrument |
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| TV line and field detection apparatus with good noise immunity |
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| Multilayered end bearing |
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Data transmission device
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Inventors: Funahashi, Yasuhiro; Ikami, Kazunori; Hasegawa, Yukie;
Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Nagoya, JP); Xing, Inc. (Nagoya, JP)
Primary Examiner: Trammell; James P.
Assistant Examiner: Assouad; Patrick J.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Oliff & Berridge
When the terminal 5 requests a partial access of a desired karaoke song to the center 3 in S380, only the climactic passage data of the karaoke song is transmitted from the center 3 to the terminal 5. The terminal 5 reproduces the climactic passage in S400. Then, the terminal 5 determines whether or not the user will pay for the karaoke song in S410. When the payment is confirmed, the terminal 5 requests total access to the center 3 in S340, receives the entire data of the karaoke song in S350, and reproduces the data in S360. It is possible to prevent the user from erroneously requesting a total access of a karaoke song which the user does not want to sing. It is ensured that the user can obtain karaoke songs which he/she really wants to sing, within a short period of time. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION This data transmission device can be applied to a karaoke system for distributing karaoke song data to a plurality of terminals and to a movie distributing system for distributing movie data to a plurality of terminals.
Generally, there will be no way of knowing at an early stage whether or not the information data is what the user hopes for, unless of course the user knows the content of the selected information data beforehand.
If a user selects information data without knowing its content, the user may be disappointed by information data with content that is different from what the user has expected.
For example, if the information data is for a movie, the viewer may not be able to determine if the movie is what he or she has wanted to watch until viewing the movie part midway through or to the end.
This is especially a problem when the information data must be paid for, where misjudging the content of information data can result in a financial loss.
These problems can arise when the information data is selected by only referring to the title of the information data, for example, the title of a movie or the name of a karaoke song, when unable to view the content of the information data.
To help relieve this problem, pay channels such as cable television offer a service where a viewer can view the program free of charge for a short period of time.
When a viewer turns to the pay channel, after the program is shown free of charge for a short period of time, an announcement will appear on the television screen saying that the selected channel is a toll channel and that in order to view the channel any further the user must agree to pay by, for example, pressing a pay button on the television.
If the viewer presses the button, he or she will be able to view the channel by paying for the pleasure.
However with this method also, a viewer is only able to see a short portion of the information data (for example, only the start of a movie or the portion of the movie that happens to be playing when the customer turns to the pay channel)
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