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 -3-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007