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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:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Naoyuki Kinebuchi, Saitama, JP;
Toru Okazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H06N 5/91 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H06N 5/91 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a controller operation in such way that in the forward slow reproduction or the forward stepped reproduction mode, when reproducing a video signal from a bit stream of coded video signal in which each frame consists of a first field and a second field, if a currently reproduced picture is the bottom field, a reproduction position pointer is shifted to the next frame to be reproduced.