Sony Corporation

Ryuji Takatsuka

Yoshitsugu Taki

Toshiya Kurokawa

Masahiro Kodama

Kazuyuki Saito

Jun Hirai

Masaaki Fukuda

Mamoru Tokashiki

Masaaki Isozaki

A readout device includes a first recording medium having recorded therein data of arbitrary plural portions of a period of a predetermined length in temporally continuous content; a second recording medium having recorded therein data of the entire content; and a readout control unit that controls, when the readout of data of the content is requested, the readout of data from the first recording medium and from the second recording medium such that data of any one of the portions recorded in the first recording medium is read out and data following the data read out from the first recording medium is read out from the second recording medium.

Readout device, readout method, program, and program recording medium

A data management apparatus for managing data stored in a predetermined storage area includes a reader configured to communicate with a plurality of objects each having a memory storing an address indicating a storage area and to read the address from the memory of an object with which communication is to be performed by a user among the plurality of objects; a data obtaining unit configured to obtain data to be stored in the storage area; and a storage controller configured to cause the data obtained by the data obtaining means to be stored in the storage area indicated by the address read by the reader.

Data management apparatus, data management method, and program

The invention provides a tape library wherein the accommodated number of cassette tapes can be adjusted freely. Where one or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit, when a transport mechanism is positioned within the basic unit, a control circuit section of the basic unit controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the basic unit, but when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit, the control circuit section controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the expansion unit. The control circuit section and the transparent mechanism of the basic unit are interconnected by a flat cable like an elongated belt which includes a plurality of conductors extending in parallel to each other and joined together with an insulating material, and when an expansion unit is coupled, the cable for interconnecting the transport mechanism and the control circuit section need not be replaced. This allows smooth coupling of an expansion unit and smooth transportation of a recording medium in the expansion unit to a recording and/or playback section by the transport mechanism of the basic unit.

Tape library

A tape library wherein a number of cassette tapes are accommodated and adjusted. One or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit. When a transport mechanism is within the basic unit, a control circuit section controls the transport mechanism by referencing a position reference point of the basic unit, and when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit the control circuit section controls referencing a position reference point of the expansion unit. The control circuit section and the transport mechanism of the basic unit are interconnected by an elongated-belt-like flat cable which includes a plurality of conductors extending in parallel and joined with an insulating material, and when an expansion unit is coupled the cable need not be replaced, allowing coupling of an expansion unit and smooth transportation of a recording medium in the expansion unit to a recording and/or playback section by the transport mechanism.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryuji Takatsuka