US5363355A
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CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus with clipping memory
Assignee: Sony Corp
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Filing: 1993-04-07
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Granted: 1994-11-08
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Expires: 2013-04-07
Abstract
Abstract A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus having a search function and a display apparatus (10) which can display data representative of searched results comprises a nonvolatile clipping RAM (12) for storing searched data and a clipping key (13) for allowing a desired data portion of data searched by this apparatus to be freely written on the clipping RAM (12), wherein the data written in the clipping RAM (12) can be accessed at any time and displayed in the display apparatus (10). Therefore, a desired information can be read out arbitrarily with ease and displayed.
Inventors
- 👤 Koji Takagi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 19:33
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B19/00; G11B19/02; G11B7/00; G11B7/007; G11B20/00; G11B20/10; G11B27/00; G11B27/10; G11B27/102; G11B27/105; G11B27/34; G11B33/00; G11B33/10; G11B2220/00; G11B2220/20; G11B2220/21; G11B2220/213; G11B2220/25; G11B2220/2537; G11B2220/2545
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
123 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus comprising: a) disc drive means for reproducing data from a CD-ROM disc; b) control means coupled to the disc drive means for controlling operations of the disc drive means; c) user controllable input means coupled to the controlling means for entering data and command signals to the control means, including search commands for finding and reproducing data from the CD-ROM disc; d) display means for displaying at least the data reproduced from the CD-ROM disc by the disc drive means; and e) clipping memory means coupled to the control means for selectively storing at least a portion of the data reproduced from the CD-ROM disc upon entry of a clipping command by the user through the input means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
123 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus comprising: a) disc drive means for reproducing data from a CD-ROM disc; b) control means coupled to the disc drive means for controlling operations of the disc drive means; c) user controllable input means coupled to the controlling means for entering data and command signals to the control means, including search commands for finding and reproducing data from the CD-ROM disc; d) display means for displaying at least the data reproduced from the CD-ROM disc by the disc drive means; and e) clipping memory means coupled to the control means for selectively storing at least a portion of the data reproduced from the CD-ROM disc upon entry of a clipping command by the user through the input means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
48 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein the input means includes clipping means for supplying the clipping command to the control means in order to store a desired portion of the data reproduced and displayed on the display means into the clipping memory means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
24 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein the clipping memory means is a semiconductor memory having a predetermined memory capacity.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus as cited in claim 3, wherein the semiconductor memory is a random access memory having a back-up battery.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
27 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein the clipping memory means further stores header information relating to the portion of the reproduced data.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
48 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus as cited in claim 5, wherein the header information stored in the clipping memory means includes a type of the data, a top address of the stored data in the clipping memory means, and the number of total bytes of the stored data.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
49 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein the input means includes read out means for supplying a read out command to the control means in order to read out the data stored in the clipping memory means and display the same on the display means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
25 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus as cited in claim 2, wherein the clipping memory means is a semiconductor, non-volatile memory having a predetermined memory capacity.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
61 words
A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus as cited in claim 7, wherein the data stored in the clipping memory means is greater than can be displayed at one time on the display means and wherein the display means includes means for scrolling an image displayed by the display means from data read out from the clipping memory by the read out means.
References Cited (Backward Citations)
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