Appeal No. 1997-2857
Application 08/171,175
invention, have been withdrawn from consideration.
The claimed invention relates to a video tape recorder in
which absolute track addresses are recorded in at least some
of a plurality of tracks on a magnetic tape. The absolute
track address, recorded in the subcode area of the tracks,
corresponds to the distance of a track from the start position
of the magnetic tape. A controller initiates recording from a
track having a predetermined absolute track address
corresponding to a predetermined distance from the start
position.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. A video tape recorder for recording and reproducing
audio and video signals in tracks on a magnetic tape,
comprising:
means for recording and reproducing absolute track
addresses in each of at least some of a plurality of tracks on
a magnetic tape, the absolute track address of said each of at
least some of the plurality of tracks corresponding to a
distance of said each of at least some of the plurality of
tracks from a start position of the magnetic tape, the
absolute track addresses being incremented or decremented in a
predetermined manner with increasing track position along a
recording direction of the magnetic tape;
the recording and reproducing means being operative to
record audio and video signals in the plurality of tracks; and
2
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