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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. 11, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 4429 ; 369 54 ; 369 58 ; 369 94 ;
Abstract
Signal processing systems can be switched according to the optical system selected from a plurality of optical systems and set to the operating state. A system controlling portion 100 finally sets an appropriate optical system according to the kind of an optical disk 11, and sets an appropriate signal processing system corresponding to the set optical system for setting an appropriate mode depending upon CD (compact disk) or DVD (high density recording disk).