Hitachi, Ltd.

Mayumi Ueyama

Shoji Ohno

Hiroto Yamauchi

Motoyoshi Sasaki

Hisashi Ohta

Yoshiyuki Azuma

Katsuhiko Abe

Hiroshi Shimizu

Naoki Yamamoto

Tadashi Kuwabara

Yutaka Igarashi

Shinichiro Fukushima

Yukinobu Tada

Toru Numata

Maki Furui

Rituko Kanazawa

Katsuki Ikuta

Misuzu Mochizuki

A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus having a capability of allowing contents of records on a magnetic tape to be discriminatively identified and a capability for displaying closed caption includes a tape map memory for storing contents recorded on a tape and a tape map controller. As a manual input facility, a tape map button, a caption button, a play-back button, a stop button and others are provided. Upon loading of a tape undergone recording(s), the tape map button is pushed to display on a monitor screen tape map information concerning the contents of program(s) recorded on the loaded tape, temporal duration(s) of the program(s), and history of play-back of the tape.

Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for searching programs recorded on magnetic tape

For changing services to readers who desires to obtain electronic books exactly or minutely, an electronic book management systemdistributes at least electronic purchase certificates relating to books which are stocked at a bookstores owing a bookstore terminal device, in advance, to that bookstore terminal device. When buying the book(s), a reader obtains in an IC cardowned by her/him a purchase certificate(s) of that book(s) which she/he bought, from the bookstore terminal. When ordering to obtain the electronic book(s), the reader transmits the purchase certificate(s) from a reader terminal deviceto the electronic book management systemthrough a communication network. The electronic book management systemchanges over it's service when supplying the electronic book(s) to that reader depending upon the existence of the purchase certificate(s).

Electronic book distributing system by use of purchase certificate and devices therefor

Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for search programs recorded on

magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for searching programs recorded

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Tokyo, Japan

Mayumi Ueyama