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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:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2004
Applicants:
Miki Abe, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadao Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Miki Abe, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadao Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An extracting circuit for extracting meta information from information forming contents is provided. The meta information extracted by the extracting circuit is recorded in a recording medium together with the contents and is used as management information. With this configuration, an object can be searched for based on the contents of the object in a recording device for recording contents, such as moving and still pictures, voices, graphics, and text, in a recording medium.