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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. 24, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2002
Applicants:
Hiroyuki Marumori, Yokohama, JP;
Morio Aoki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hiroyuki Tarumizu, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/91 (2006.01); H04N 7/26 (2006.01); H04N 13/225 (2006.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2006.01); G11B 7/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording medium receiver. The management information provides information about whether or not data can be recorded on the recording medium.