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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:
Jul. 09, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Cheol Y Kim, Suwon, KR;
Assignee:
Goldstar Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395280 ; 395728 ; 3642306 ; 364D / ; 369 47 ; 369 48 ; 358342 ;
Abstract
A compact disk-interactive (CD-I) system which can reproduce CD-ROMs programmed using different codes as well as general compact disks for use as a multimedia appliance. Besides a first CPU for controlling the operation of the system, a CD drive, and video and audio output devices, the CD-I system includes a second CPU for decoding data from a CD-ROM, a memory for storing the operation system of the second CPU, a bus arbitration logic for arbitrating the operation priority of the system bus between the first and second CPU, and a programmable array logic for controlling the bus arbitration logic in accordance with the code type of the reproduced data.