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(19) United States (12) Reissued Patent

(10) Patent Number: US RE41,082 E (45) Date of Reissued Patent: Jan. 19, 2010

Kanai et a]. (54) INFORMATION RECORDER, RECORDING

FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS

METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIA

(75) Inventors: Yuichi Kanai, Aichi (JP); Kazuya Ogawa, Gifu (JP); Seiya Ota, Aichi (JP)

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5/1995 5/1995

(Continued) OTHER PUBLICATIONS

(73) Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-Shi

(21) App1.No.1

11/580,314

Decision of ?nal rejection for the Japanese counterpar‘ti Patent Application No. Hei11*540252, dated Jul. 10, 2007. Notice of Reason for Rejection on the Japanese application

(22)

PCT Filed:

Jan. 29, 1999

Notice of Reasons for Rejection from the Japanese Patent

(86)

PCT No.1

PCT/JP99/00385

§ 371 (0X1), (2), (4) Date:

Oct. 4, 1999

(JP)

(87)

(J P2006i303541), and English translation. O?ice, dated Apr. 22, 2008, corresponding to Japanese Application No. JP2006i303541. Two Notice of Rejections dated Oct. 31, 2006 and Feb. 20,

2007, respectively, for the Japanese counterpart application No. J PH1 1*0540252, with English translations. O?ice Actions from the European Patent O?ice dated Sep.

PCT Pub. No.1 WO99/40586

17, 2003, and Feb. 23, 2007 in the corresponding European

PCT Pub. Date: Aug. 12, 1999

Patent Application No. 99 901 913.6. Noti?cation of Reasons for Refusal, dated Jul. 15, 2008, on

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Reissue of:

(64) Patent No.1 Issued:

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Japanese

counterpart

patent

application

No.

2006*303541.

6,816,666

Primary ExamineriRober‘t Chevalier (74) Attorney, Agent, or FirmiWesterman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP (57) ABSTRACT

Nov. 9, 2004

Appl. No.1

09/402,344

Filed:

Jan. 29, 1999

Foreign Application Priority Data

There are described a data recording system, a data record Feb. 3, 1998

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(JP) ........................................... .. 10-21685

Int. Cl. H04N 5/93

ing method, and a recording medium, all of which are directed to enabling easy editing of AV data without involve

(2006.01)

ment of duplication of the AV data, as well as to eliminating a necessity for an additional data recording region. In the

(52)

US. Cl. .......................................... .. 386/52; 386/55

recording system, at the time of recording of primary data,

(58)

Field of Classi?cation Search .................. .. 386/52,

386/55, 46, 124, 125, 95, 45, 40 See application ?le for complete search history. (56)

formed by arranging in sequence address data for reproduc tion purposes stored in a recording region on a recording

medium. Further, through editing of the original ?le, there is prepared a virtual ?le which stores link data formed by

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arranging in sequence address data for reproduction pur poses stored in the recording region on the recording medium. The data are reproduced according to these ?les.

U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,933,570 A 6,118,927 A

there is prepared an original ?le which stores link data

8/1999 Fujita 9/2000 Kikuchi et a1.

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