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EP0455934A2 Expired / Lapsed EP ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Disk selection control device for multidisk player

Assignee: Pioneer Corp
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Filing: 1991-01-28
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2011-01-28
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Abstract

Abstract A disk selection control device for a multidisk player, in which disk content identifying information and TOC information of the disks are preliminarily stored correspondingly with each other, and the disk content identifying information and disk holding position information of the disks are stored correspondingly with each other according to the TOC information when it is read-out. By inputting the disk content identifying information, the disk holding position information corresponding to the input disk content identifying information can be obtained from the above correspondency therebetween to thereby select a desired disk.

Inventors

  • 👤 Junichi Nishida
  • 👤 Fumio Endo
  • 👤 Akira Hayama
  • 👤 Toshiyuki Kimura
  • 👤 Hitoshi Sato
  • 👤 Kiyoshi Furukawa
  • 👤 Kenji Kaneko

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-03 14:48
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B17/00; G11B17/22; G11B17/228; G11B27/00; G11B27/002; G11B27/10; G11B27/11; G11B2220/00; G11B2220/20; G11B2220/21; G11B2220/213; G11B2220/25; G11B2220/2537; G11B2220/2545; G11B2220/60; G11B2220/65

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim 207 words
A disk selection control device for a multidisk player capable of housing a plurality of disks each having a lead-in area where indexing information is recorded and selectively playing any one of said plurality of disks according to disk designating information, said disk selection control device comprising: first storing means for storing disk content identifying information for identification of contents in said plurality of disks and said indexing information of said plurality of disks correspondingly with each other; control means for playing said plurality of disks in the order of holding positions thereof in response to a command and reading said indexing information of said plurality of disks; second storing means for storing said disk content identifying information to be obtained from said first storing means and disk holding position information indicative of said holding positions of said plurality of disks correspondingly with each other according to said indexing information read by said control means; inputting means for inputting said disk content identifying information in selecting one of said plurality of disks; and means for obtaining said disk holding position information corresponding to said input disk content identifying information from said second storing means and employing said corresponding disk holding position information as said disk designating information.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 57 words
The disk selection control device as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of disks is a memory disk in which a map data is stored, and said disk content identifying information comprises a map number indicative of a content of a map corresponding to said map data stored in said memory disk.

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