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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:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Atsushi Hashimoto, Hirakata, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/108 ; H04N 5/191 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/108 ; H04N 5/191 ;
Abstract
An information recording and reproducing apparatus includes a record and reproduce section to record or reproduce information signal onto or from an information medium, a determination section to determine at least one of a kind and a state of the medium, a function management section to manage functions for recording and functions for reproduction, and to select functions which can be performed from the managed functions according to the determination result of the determination section, and a display control section to control a display unit to display a list of functions selected by the function management section.