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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.:

US 9032438 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 16, 2004

Method and apparatus for accessing content

Applicants:

Tamotsu Ito, Tokyo, JP;

Noriaki Harada, Tokyo, JP;

Tsugutaro Ozawa, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Tamotsu Ito, Tokyo, JP;

Noriaki Harada, Tokyo, JP;

Tsugutaro Ozawa, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi Maxell, Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Attorney:

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Primary Examiner:

Pankaj Kumar

Assistant Examiner:

Reuben M Brown

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/45 (2011.01); H04N 1/21 (2006.01); G11B 19/02 (2006.01); G11B 27/00 (2006.01); G11B 27/034 (2006.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01); G11B 27/11 (2006.01); G11B 27/32 (2006.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); H04N 5/783 (2006.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/47 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/2175 (2013.01); G11B 19/02 (2013.01); G11B 27/007 (2013.01); G11B 27/034 (2013.01); G11B 27/105 (2013.01); G11B 27/11 (2013.01); G11B 27/326 (2013.01); G11B 27/329 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01); G11B 2220/2562 (2013.01); G11B 2220/65 (2013.01); H04N 21/42204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/47 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for accessing content is capable of retrieving and selecting information is facilitated by using uniform operations. Symbols corresponding to pre-recorded programs contained on a recording medium are displayed on a screen. In response to selecting one of the symbols, representative frames comprising the program are displayed on the screen. In response to selecting a representative frame, a portion of the program is played back. In a recording device, content is accessed by displaying a representative frame from each of a number of user-defined streams. At least a portion of a stream is played back in response to selection of the corresponding one of the representative frames.

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