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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2000
Roeland Pieter DE Bruijne, Eindhoven, NL;
Roeland Pieter De Bruijne, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to an electronic device with an optical unit for reading information stored on an information plate and for writing information on an information plate, characterized in that the electronic device comprises a transport mechanism for the transport of at least two information plates between a storage position and a playing position provided both for reading and for writing, in that a memory unit is provided for the intermediate storage of information, and in that an alternate transport of the first and of the second information plate between the playing position and the respective storage position is provided for the purpose of copying information from a first information plate to a second information plate, such that alternatively in a first time interval a read-out of information from the first information plate and an intermediate storage of this read-out information in the memory unit are carried out, and in a second time interval the information stored in said memory unit is written onto the second information plate.