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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:
Jun. 08, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
386109 ; 386 81 ;
Abstract
In a digital video signal recording apparatus of the kind arranged to output a coded signal with its length per picture arranged to be variable by compressing the amount of information of the digital video signal and to record the coded signal while forming many tracks in parallel on a tape-shaped recording medium, a compression ratio is adjusted in such a way as to make the coded signal corresponding to m pictures (m: an integer of 2 or more) have an amount of information recordable in n tracks (n: an integer of 1 or more).