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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:
Feb. 20, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1994
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A memory is provided in a tape cassette and it consists of a program information area for recording information on each program recorded on a tape and a tape information area for recording information on the entire tape. If this tape cassette is used by a video cassette recorder having a full function to drive the memory and by a video cassette recorder having a limited function to drive it, the program information recorded in the memory is consistent with the programs actually recorded on the tape. For example, a tape erasing prevention flag is set in the tape information area, while a program erasing prevention flag is set for each program in the program information area. In a different example, a tape inconsistency flag is set in the tape information area, while a program inconsistency flag is set for each program in the program information area. The data in the memory can be corrected by using such flags according to the programs actually recorded on the tape.
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