Appeal No. 1995-1052
Application No. 07/944,562
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to an information recording device, record carrier
and information reading device on which successive independent pieces of time
synchronous information are stored. The instant invention resolves a problem of unused
track portions by storing information in as many released tracks portions as necessary.
During read-out, from the carrier, the segmented recorded portions of the information
piece in question are restored to their original time synchronous sequentially continuous
relationship. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 10, which is reproduced below.
10. A record carrier comprising a recording track having information
patterns recorded therein representing a plurality of pieces of time
synchronous continuous information; characterized in that: at least one track
portion has an information pattern recorded therein for a first complete
information piece; said one track portion is located between and adjoining
track portions in the track direction which have information patterns recorded
therein for different segments of another information piece, each segment is
of a length determined by the length of the track portion in which it is
recorded; and control information is recorded in the recording track
indicative of the locations of each of said adjoining track portions.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Hashimoto et al. (Hashimoto) 5,053,898 Oct. 01, 1991
Roth et al. (Roth) 5,212,678 May 18, 1993
(effective filing date Sep. 28, 1990)
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