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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:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takeharu Nishikata, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
386 56 ; 386 95 ; 360 721 ; 360 13 ;
Abstract
A signal recording and reproduction apparatus and method for a recording medium, wherein when an eject button is depressed, a video sub-code (VSC) area where no information is recorded is retrieved from the VSC areas near the position of the end of the reproduction operation of the medium. The index information recorded in an index information memory is recorded in that retrieved VSC area. When information on the medium is to be reproduced after that, the index information is read from the VSC area near the position of the end of the previous reproduction operation for the heading operation.