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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1996
Akira Suga, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Ogiwara, Sagamihara, JP;
Taku Yamagami, Yokohama, JP;
Yuko Tanaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Kazuhiko Nakashita, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to easily search data from a recording medium on which different types of data items are recorded. A storing apparatus is disclosed, that comprises a signal processing unit for acquiring first type data and second type data and processing them, a serial number assigning unit for sequentially assigning a serial number to the first type data and the second type data processed by the signal processing unit in the acquired order regardless of the first type data or the second type data, and a storing unit for storing the first type data and the second type data corresponding to the serial number.