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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:
May. 05, 1992
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358341 ; 358342 ;
Abstract
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a plurality of time base changing elements arranged to perform band compression and expansion by altering the time base of an incoming signal; a switching circuit arranged to selectively change audio signals inputted into and outputted from these time base changing elements from one over to another; and a recording-and-reproducing circuit arranged to record and reproduce the band compressed audio signal on and from a recording medium.