Appeal No. 95-3129
Application 07/949,290
information to be recorded on the “A side” of the tape and a “B
plane indicator” representative of information to be recorded on
the “B side” of the tape. Each plane indicator includes a set of
indicia corresponding to fifteen tracks of the disc, a series of
seven-segment display units for displaying track and time
information, and several groups of discrete vertical hash marks
(presumably in the form of LEDs or the like). The “A plane
indicator” and the “B plane indicator” are separated by what
appears to be a horizontal number line starting at 0 (zero) and
going to fifty (50) indicative of the minutes of playing time of
each side of the tape. The manner in which Tomoda’s display 24
displays information is not described in detail. As we
understand it, as the edit keys 25b-25e are used to add tracks to
the play list for recording on either the “A side” or the “B
side” of the tape, the discrete vertical hash marks for the
corresponding plane indicator change their appearance from a
first state to a second state to indicate the cumulative time of
the edited play list for that tape side.
Claim 1, the sole independent claim on appeal, calls for,
inter alia, a visual display means for displaying the information
of the removable information-carrying medium as a bar, and sub-
bar display means for displaying within said bar, sub-sequences
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