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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. 04, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 32 ; 369 48 ; 369 54 ;
Abstract
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a memory controller which controls a write-in and read-out operation of data into the memory. When data are recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium by the recording and/or reproducing unit, the memory controller time-divisionally stores into a first storage area of a memory the data which will be recorded on the disc-shaped recording medium by the recording and/or reproducing unit while simultaneously time-divisionally storing into a second storage area of the memory management data for the disc-shaped recording medium which are read out by the recording and/or reproducing unit.