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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2002
Timothy Alan Dietz, Austin, TX (US);
Walid Kobrosly, Round Rock, TX (US);
Nadeem Malik, Austin, TX (US);
Timothy Alan Dietz, Austin, TX (US);
Walid Kobrosly, Round Rock, TX (US);
Nadeem Malik, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Extending the function of a conventional VCR to both do digital recording and to convert analog tape VCR cassette recordings to a digital format without any apparatus modification of the conventional VCR. A portable video recording device comprises a video cassette housing adapted to operatively engage a video cassette recorder, i.e. the VCR requires no modification; the VCR in effect thinks that it is receiving a conventional VCR cassette. The inserted cassette housing comprises a set of read-write heads for operatively engaging an opposing set of read-write heads in the video cassette recorder; disk-drive storage apparatus operatively connected to said cassette read-write heads; and apparatus for converting analog input from the VCR to digital data and storing the data in the disk-drive storage.