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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:
May. 12, 1992

Filed:

Oct. 25, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:

Stuart J Best, Harlington, GB;

Nigel Johnson, Windlesham, GB;

Adrian M Sandford, Hayes, GB;

Assignee:

Thorn EMI plc, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
380-3 ; 380 19 ; 360 60 ;
Abstract

A signal identification system, suitable for producing an identification code on a sound track recording is described. The system includes an encoder 209 effective to eliminate a variable sequence of frequency bands from an audio signal and insert a sequence of code signals into the frequency bands. As the sequence of frequency bands varies throughout the sound track recording, the presence of the code is difficult to detect.


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