US5228021A
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Multidisk player including a display that indicates titles and kinds of disks within the player
Assignee: Pioneer Corp
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Filing: 1991-01-23
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Granted: 1993-07-13
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Expires: 2011-01-23
Abstract
Abstract A display apparatus for a multidisk player including a memory for storing data of titles and disk kinds for a plurality of disks, and a controller for reading all the stored data and displaying the title and the disk kind of each disk on a display in accordance with the read data. Accordingly, a user can acknowledge the content of each disk at a glance without actually playing the disks. Furthermore, the user can conveniently distinguish an audio disk from a ROM disk and select a desired one of these disks.
Inventors
- 👤 Hitoshi Sato
- 👤 Akira Hayama
- 👤 Toshiyuki Kimura
- 👤 Junichi Nishida
- 👤 Fumio Endo
- 👤 Kiyoshi Furukawa
- 👤 Kenji Kaneko
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-31 00:10
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B27/00; G11B27/002; G11B27/10; G11B27/11; G11B27/34; G11B2220/00; G11B2220/20; G11B2220/21; G11B2220/213; G11B2220/25; G11B2220/2537; G11B2220/2545; G11B2220/40; G11B2220/41; G11B2220/60; G11B2220/65; G11B27/102; G11B27/105
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
112 words
A display apparatus for a multidisk player capable of accommodating a plurality of disks including an audio disk and a read only memory disk, and for selectively playing one of said disks, said display apparatus adapted to display titles and kinds of disks in said multidisks player for user viewing, the display apparatus comprising: memory means for storing information including titles and disk kinds for said plurality of disks, certain of said information derived from said disks; and control means for reading said information stored in said memory means and displaying the title and the disk kind of all said plurality of disks on a display in accordance with the read information.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
112 words
A display apparatus for a multidisk player capable of accommodating a plurality of disks including an audio disk and a read only memory disk, and for selectively playing one of said disks, said display apparatus adapted to display titles and kinds of disks in said multidisks player for user viewing, the display apparatus comprising: memory means for storing information including titles and disk kinds for said plurality of disks, certain of said information derived from said disks; and control means for reading said information stored in said memory means and displaying the title and the disk kind of all said plurality of disks on a display in accordance with the read information.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
38 words
The display apparatus for the multidisks player as defined in claim 1, wherein when a title of a said disk may be designated by an input key operation, said memory means storing said title of said designated disk.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
53 words
The display apparatus for the multidisk player as defined in claim 1, wherein said memory means determines whether or not a selected disk is a ROM disk in accordance with table of contents information extracted from a signal read from said selected disk, and stores a result of said determination of disk kind.
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