Sony Corporation

Mitsuhiro Shimada

Atsuhiro Kumagai

Yoichiro Sako

Koichi Sato

Tatsuya Inokuchi

Hideyuki Suzuki

Tadashi Suzuki

Takashi Masuda

Yuji Morimiya

Takashi Kawaguchi

Mitsuo Hoshino

Yoshihiro Ide

Yuichiro Nogo

Tsutomu Mikami

Yuka Tsutsumi

Seisuke Oba

Suitability of a recording medium for being recorded to and/or reproduced from by an apparatus is determined. Address information is read from a recording medium having at least a first area in which data is recordable, a second area, and a third area. The second area is followed by the first area which is followed by the third area. The address information includes first address information, which represents the position of the second area, and/or second address information which represents the position of the third area. A possible error in the address information is detected based on an error detection code generated for the address information. Whether the recording medium is suitable for being recorded to or reproduced from by the apparatus is determined based on a result of the detecting step. The recording medium is suitable when no error is detected and is unsuitable when an error is detected.

Method of determining suitability of a recording medium for being recorded to and/or reproduced from by an apparatus

A recording and/or reproducing method for a record medium, comprising the steps of reading address information from a record medium, the record medium having at least a first area and a second area, data being recordable to the first area, the second area being followed by the first area, the address information representing the position of the second area, detecting an error corresponding to error detection code encoded for the address information that has been read from the record medium, and when the result of the detecting step represents that an error has been detected in the address information that has been read from the record medium, notifying at least a user that the error has been detected.

Method for recording and/or reproducing data on/from recording/recorded medium, reproducing apparatus, recording medium, method for recogizing recording/recorded medium, and method for recording and/or reproducing data for apparatus using recording/recorded medium

The package mounted to a recording and/or reproducing apparatus with a disk-form recording medium such as a magneto-optic disk, etc. housed is formed with thin a sheet plate member such as a plastic thin sheet, etc., thereby enabling simplification of the construction and reduction of cost. In a housing container ( ) equipped with a housing section ( ) for housing a disk-form recording medium, a cover ( ) formed with a thin plate member for closing the opening of the housing section ( ) is joined to form a package ( ). To the cover ( ), a detaching section ( ) is formed at a section opposite at least a part of the recording section of a disk-form recording medium housed in the housing section ( ), and the detaching section ( ) is detached to form an opening at the cover ( ) when the disk-form recording medium is used.

Sealable cover for a package and package system for disk-form recording medium

A camera-mounted VTR having a grip part for holding a main unit of the VTR at one side surface of the main unit of the VTR. A view finder is provided at the main unit of the VTR in such a way as it may be raised or inclined in respect to the main unit of the VTR and at the same time a recording button is arranged at a location hidden by the view finder when the main unit of the VTR is inclined.

Camera-mounted VTR

A video camera has a time setting portion for setting a shot-time of one cut and a display member for displaying the information indicative of elapsed time. Further the video camera has a auto-stop mode which automatically stops the recording operation of the video camera stopped when the recording time exceeds the shot-time of one cut set by the time-set portion.

Video camera apparatus

A unified compact video camera and video cassette recording and/or reproducing apparatus (VCR) has a video camera unit and a VCR unit which includes a cassette holder arranged in a common hollow body at opposite sides of its median plane, and a grip strap extends along the body at the outside of the cassette holder so that the opposite side of the body is available for the positioning thereat of various control switches for operating the video camera and VCR units.

Unified compact video camera and VCR

A video tape recorder, according to the present invention, comprises a mechanical chassis supporting a mechanism for recording and reproducing video signals on a magnetic video tape housed in a cassette. The mechanical chassis moves essentially on a horizontal plane at a load position and an ejecting position. At the load position, the mechanical chassis projects frontward from an outer cover housing of the video tape recorder for loading and/or ejecting a magnetic video tape cassette. Preferably, the recorder has at least two load positions and can perform recording and/or reproduction at either load position. At a first load position, the mechanical chassis is housed within the internal space of the recorder housing. At second load position, the mechanical chassis projects at least partway from the recorder housing. A push-button operated controller for operating the recorder is also disclosed.

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Chiba, Japan

Mitsuhiro Shimada