Appeal No. 1998-1476
Application No. 08/609,234
1. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus of the type
including:
a system controller;
a memory means for storing, in a sector-based data storing
area, data to be recorded on a recording medium and/or data which is
read out from the recording medium and in which a recording operation
of the data on the recording medium or a reproducing operation of the
data from the recording medium is carried out by writing data into
the memory means and reading the data out of the memory means;
a memory control means for controlling the writing of data into
the memory means and the reading of data out of the memory means,
wherein the improvement comprises that the memory control means,
autonomously with respect to the system controller, creates a sector
data storing area and an additive data storing area in each sector-
based data storing area in the memory means to store prescribed data
in the additive data storing area in accordance with the sector-based
data which is stored in the sector data storing area and stores the
prescribed data in the additive data storing area in accordance with
the sector-based data stored in the sector data storing area.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Maeda et al. (Maeda) 5,410,526 Apr. 25, 1995
(filed Feb. 4, 1993)
Claims 1, 5 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
anticipated by Maeda.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective
positions of appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
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