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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1985
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 ...
358342 ; 360-91 ; 360 722 ; 360 49 ;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for recording and playing back a plurality of digitally encoded audio messages along with associated video data. The messages are combined along with a plurality of corresponding audio message initial data address signals and recorded on a recording medium with the video data. 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 with selected video data. Codes can be included to control the decoding rate in accordance with the sample rate of the audio message data.