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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000

Filed:

Aug. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Tohru Inoue, Nagaokakyo, JP;

Ken Onishi, Nagaokakyo, JP;

Masaru Kawabata, Nagaokakyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; H04N / ; H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 48 ; 360 53 ; 386 40 ; 386124 ; 714755 ;
Abstract

A digital signal recording and reproducing method and apparatus for digitally recording and reproducing first and second signals in tracks on a magnetic recording includes an encoder and a recording unit. The encoder separately error-correcting encodes the first and second signals of a first and second type, respectively, to produce at least first and second inspection codes corresponding to the first and second signals. The first and second inspection codes have first and second lengths, respectively. The recording unit records the first and second signals and the first and second inspection codes in tracks of the magnetic recording medium so that the first and second signals and the first and second inspection codes are recorded in a track without a gap therebetween.


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