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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:
Aug. 24, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Akira Hatakenaka, Musashino, JP;
Takeshi Mori, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358335 ; 358342 ; 358906 ; 358909 ;
Abstract
The image sensing apparatus of the invention can easily and promptly search those areas of the main tracks of a floppy disk which store no data, or search or edit (e.g. copy) stored data, with the use of control data of a queue track and without an overhead. Further, it can automatically detect whether a recording medium is formatted upon insertion thereof, and then format it in a suitable manner if it has no formats.