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Video disk and video reproduction device which automatically extracts reproduction control data from a disk and subsequently modifies a control program which was stored in a ROM

US5796913A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 30, 1996
Grant dateAug 18, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 30, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10H2240/311
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A CPU 38 retrieves the reproduction control program from a header portion of a video disk. The CPU stores the program into a RAM 35. The CPU controls disk players 34a and 34b to reproduce video data from video disks, based on the program stored in a ROM 33 and the reproduction control program now stored in the RAM 35.

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