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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. 12, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter Shintani, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348564 ; 348468 ; 348565 ; 348553 ;
Abstract
A picture receiving apparatus wherein a received video signal is converted into digital video data which is further compressed before being recorded on a minidisk set in a disk mounting unit along with caption information superimposed on the video signal and index information is recorded. A remote commander is used to select a desired item from index information displayed on a display screen. Pictures of the selected item are displayed on a child screen and caption information associated with the pictures is displayed in a caption display area.