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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:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
John R. Kinghorn, Brockenhurst, GB;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/91 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/91 ;
Abstract
A tape indexing arrangement for video recorders records the index on the tape using standard broadcast teletext codes. When a tape is inserted, the contents list it contains is written onto an index RAM in the recorder (,). When a new program is recorded, a program identification is generated from PDC or EPG data (,). At a suitable later time, the contents of the index RAM are recorded on the tape (,).