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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:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
386 69 ; 386 81 ; 345328 ;
Abstract
A reproducing apparatus of a video tape recorder or the like determines a tape search status and facilitates conducting a search. The reproducible region is displayed on a graph, and a search marker and a reproducing position are indicated on the graph. Furthermore, it is possible to set the search marker on the graph.