Appeal No. 1998-1811
Application No. 08/395,193
canceled claim 5, was entered by the Examiner. Accordingly,
the rejection of
claims 2-4, 6, and 10-13 is before us on appeal.
The claimed invention relates to a method and system for
automatically editing programs in an audio and video
information copy system. Recorded programs can be detected by
coding a recording time of each program on a recording medium
together with the video and audio signals of each program. In
a single copy program mode, programs recorded in a single
periodic time slot are selected for copying, while in a plural
program copy mode, a selected successive series of programs
recorded at different time slots can be copied.
Claim 2 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
2. In a video and audio information copy system
comprising a playback mechanism and a recording mechanism
arranged in a single unit, said playback mechanism playing
back video and audio signals recorded on a recording medium
thereof, said recording mechanism recording externally applied
video and audio signals or video and audio signals played back
by said playback mechanism on a recording medium thereof, a
method of detecting and editing programs of the same time slot
from programs recorded on the recording medium of said
playback mechanism, comprising the steps of:
2
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