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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1987

Filed:

Sep. 06, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:

Wayne R Dakin, Huntington Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:

Discovision Associates, Costa Mesa, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358343 ; 358342 ; 360 101 ; 360 191 ;
Abstract

Method and apparatus for playing back a plurality of digitally encoded audio messages along with associated video data. The audio messages are combined along with a plurality of corresponding audio message start address signals when recorded on a recording medium. The digitally encoded information can be recorded in the audio domain, i.e. as digitally audio recorded on an audio channel of the medium, or in the video domain, i.e. as digitized audio recorded on the video channel of the medium. In playback, the address and audio data signals are retrieved from the recording medium and stored. The address signals are utilized to access selectable messages for decoding and playback of the selected audio message.


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