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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1982
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1980
William A Menezes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Douglas D Kuper, Campbell, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cue address generator for generating a cue address representing the position of a respective record medium adapted to be accessed by signal recording/playback apparatus. The cue address generator is particularly adapted to be used in signal editing apparatus of the type wherein signals recorded on a first record medium are transferred to a second record medium when preselected positions of the media are reached. The cue address generator includes a plurality of registers, each operative to store position data representing a relative position of the first or second medium, and a plurality of register selector switches associated with respective ones of the registers, each being selectively operative to select its associated register. Cue selector switches are associated with respective ones of the record media and are selectively operative to initiate a cue address generating operation. A control circuit, such as a CPU, is responsive to the operation of a register selector switch and a cue selector switch to produce a difference signal representing the difference between the position data in the register selected by the operated register selector switch and the position data in a particular register, and to combine this difference signal with the position data displayed in a predetermined register to produce the cue address. Both the predetermined register and the operated cue selector switch are associated with the same first or second record medium.