US4970608A
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Editing system for rearranging allocation of information units on an information recording medium
Assignee: Olympus Corp
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Filing: 1989-03-16
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Granted: 1990-11-13
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Expires: 2009-03-16
Abstract
Abstract An editing system, an embodiment of which is a still video floppy disk system, including a temporary storage means for evacuating recorded information in a track of a floppy disk before the track is placed under erasing operation. Utilizing the temporary storage means, self-editing operation in a regular sequence is performed so as to rearrange or relocate recorded tracks in such a manner that the recorded tracks are consecutively allocated from the outer side of the disk without including unrecorded tracks. No system other than a single self-editing system of the invention is necessary to perform the self-editing operation.
Inventors
- 👤 Yoshio Fukuda
- 👤 Hiroyuki Watanabe
- 👤 Tetsuya Kawasaki
- 👤 Yasuo Arisawa
- 👤 Masayuki Murashita
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 21:35
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B27/00; G11B27/10; G11B27/19; G11B27/28; G11B27/30; G11B27/3027; G11B27/02; G11B27/022; G11B27/029; G11B27/22; G11B27/3036; H; H04; H04N; H04N5/00; H04N5/76; H04N5/91; H04N5/92; H04N5/9201; H04N5/9202; H04N5/9204; H04N9/00; H04N9/79; H04N9/7904; H04N9/80; H04N9/82; H04N9/83; G11B2220/00; G11B2220/20; G11B2220/25; G11B2220/2508; G11B2220/2512
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
213 words
An editing system for rearranging a location of information units recorded in successive recording areas allocated in a predetermined positional order on an information recording medium to be applied to a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, said editing system comprising: discriminating means for discriminating unrecorded areas on the information recording medium based on the playback operation for the medium to obtain a discrimination result; erasing means for carrying out an erasing operation for a specific area of said successive recording areas allocated on the information recording medium; temporary storage means for temporarily storing an information unit recorded in said specific area to be placed under the erasing operation of said erasing means, before the commencement of the erasing operation; rerecording means for recording the information unit temporarily stored in said temporary storage means, in an area of said successive recording areas allocated on the information recording medium, other than the area where the information unit to be rerecorded is formerly recorded; and system control means for receiving the discrimination result of said discriminating means and controlling the editing operation of said editing system by successively activating said erasing means, temporary storage means and rerecording means in a regular sequence, thereby rearranging the location of the information units recorded on the information recording medium applied.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
213 words
An editing system for rearranging a location of information units recorded in successive recording areas allocated in a predetermined positional order on an information recording medium to be applied to a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, said editing system comprising: discriminating means for discriminating unrecorded areas on the information recording medium based on the playback operation for the medium to obtain a discrimination result; erasing means for carrying out an erasing operation for a specific area of said successive recording areas allocated on the information recording medium; temporary storage means for temporarily storing an information unit recorded in said specific area to be placed under the erasing operation of said erasing means, before the commencement of the erasing operation; rerecording means for recording the information unit temporarily stored in said temporary storage means, in an area of said successive recording areas allocated on the information recording medium, other than the area where the information unit to be rerecorded is formerly recorded; and system control means for receiving the discrimination result of said discriminating means and controlling the editing operation of said editing system by successively activating said erasing means, temporary storage means and rerecording means in a regular sequence, thereby rearranging the location of the information units recorded on the information recording medium applied.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
202 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said system control means provides the regular sequence for the editing operations of said system which comprises the steps of: (a) evacuating an information unit from the prerecorded area positioned immediately after the last of the most preceding consecutive unrecorded areas with respect to the order of said successive recording areas allocated on the information recording medium, by storing the information to be evacuated in said temporary storage means; (b) carrying out the erasing operation of said erasing means for the prerecorded area where the evacuated information is formerly recorded; and (c) reading out the information from said temporary storage means and recording it in the most preceding unrecorded area in the order of said successive recording areas allocated on the information recording medium; said steps being cyclically repeated, if necessary, so as to rearrange the location of the information units recorded in said successive recording areas, thereby bringing about a revised arrangement in which information recorded areas are consecutively allocated to exclude unrecorded areas from the consecutive recorded areas, from a relatively preceding area formerly allocated on the information recording medium, maintaining the order of the prerecorded areas in the former state.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
185 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said system control means provides the regular sequence for the editing operation of said system which comprises the steps of: (a) evacuating an information unit from the prerecorded area last positioned among the prerecorded areas with respect to the order of said successive recording areas allocated on the information recording medium, by storing the information to be evacuated in said temporary storage means; (b) carrying out the erasing operation of said erasing means for the prerecorded area where the evacuated information is formerly recorded; and (c) reading out the information from said temporary storage means and recording it in the most preceding unrecorded area in the order of said successive recording areas allocated on the information recording medium; said steps being cyclically repeated, if necessary, so as to rearrange the location of the information units recorded in said successive recording areas, thereby bringing about a revised arrangement in which information recorded areas are consecutively allocated to exclude unrecorded areas from the consecutive recorded areas, from a relatively preceding area formerly allocated on the information recording medium.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
116 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said system is adapted to process multiplexed video information including picture information and supplementary information associated with the picture information, said system further comprising: separating means for separating the picture information and the supplementary information at a position before said temporary storage means; supplementary storage means for storing the supplementary information separated by said separating means; modifying means capable of modifying the supplementary information stored in said supplementary storage means; and multiplexing means for multiplexing the picture information supplied from said temporary storage means and the supplementary information supplied through said modifying means, so as to supply resultant multiplexed information to said rerecording means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
31 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said system comprises driving means for driving a rotary magnetic disk to be applied as the information recording medium.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
28 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 4, wherein said system comprises driving means for driving a rotary magnetic disk to be applied as the information recording medium.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
21 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 1, 2 or or 3, wherein said temporary storage means comprises a digital fieldstore.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
17 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 5, wherein said temporary storage means comprises a digital fieldstore.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
62 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein a single head means is applied for reproducing from the information recording medium information the location of which is to be rearranged, for erasing the information by acting as an element of said erasing means and further for recording the information by acting as an element of said rerecording means.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
59 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 4, wherein a single head means is applied for reproducing from the information recording medium information the location of which is to be rearranged, for erasing the information by acting as an element of said erasing means and further for recording the information by acting as an element of said rerecording means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
58 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said system is separately built into a camera section and a processor section, said camera section functions as a camera as it is, utilizing a rotary magnetic disk to be applied as the video information recording medium, and said processor section includes said temporary storage means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
55 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 4, wherein said system is separately built into a camera section and a processor section, said camera section functions as a camera as it is, utilizing a rotary magnetic disk to be applied as the video information recording medium, and said processor section includes said temporary storage means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
31 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 11, wherein each of said camera section and said processor section has said system control means for controlling a system within the respective sections.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
36 words
An editing system in accordance with claim 13, both system control means coact with each other to perform data communication on the basis of a predetermined protocol in the editing operation mode of said editing system.
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