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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:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
386126 ; 386125 ;
Abstract
An optical disk reproducing apparatus having playback systems of CD and DVD containing their respective sync signals and method thereof. The playback systems respectively have sync detectors, and a controller analyzes a sync signal output from the sync detectors when a disk is detected to be mounted. The CD playback system is selectively driven when a CD sync signal is detected to perform a CD playback mode, and the DVD playback system is selectively driven when a DVD sync signal is detected to perform a DVD playback mode.