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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:
Nov. 20, 2001

Filed:

Feb. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Donald Henry Willis, Indianapolis, IN (US);

Mark Alan Schultz, Carmel, IN (US);

Jianlei Xie, Carmel, IN (US);

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/722 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/722 ;
Abstract

In an digital disk player the timely acquisition of requested replay sectors is particularly important during trick mode operation. Delay in a transduced bitstream path is substantially obviated from the process of controlling a transducer position during replay by a method comprising the steps of receiving a first and a second transducer address for controlling the transducer position responsive to a replayed address. Comparing the replayed address with the first transducer address to detect equality therebetween. In response to the detected equality moving the transducer to a new position determined by the second transducer address.


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