Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Combined independent audio systems – Radio
Reexamination Certificate
1999-05-24
2001-03-06
Dinh, Tan (Department: 2752)
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Combined independent audio systems
Radio
Reexamination Certificate
active
06198702
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to an information providing and collecting apparatus for efficiently collecting or preserving information, e.g., news, etc.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The applicant of this application has already proposed, in the specification and the drawings of the U.S. Ser. No. 08/131943, filed on Oct. 8, 1993, as an apparatus for efficiently providing, collecting or preserving information, e.g., news, etc., an information providing and collecting apparatus adapted to transfer information such as speech (sound), etc. from an information providing device to an information recording device (recorder) provided with a recording medium comprised of a semiconductor memory, etc., thus to collect such information.
In accordance with the information providing and collecting apparatus described in the specification and the drawings which have been already proposed, a user of the information recorder reproduces such information, thereby making it possible to rapidly obtain information, e.g., news, etc.
Meanwhile, a recorder as described above is adapted so that once new information is taken thereinto, previous information disappears because it is repetitively used. In this case, it is sufficient to copy the content (the above-mentioned previous information) of a recording medium onto another recording medium, e.g., a magneto-optical disk, etc. before new information is recorded.
However, ordinarily, in the case of information such as news mentioned above, information that a user wishes to preserve for the future is limited. If all of this information is preserved on any other recording medium, that recording medium is filled with unnecessary information in capacity at once. In addition, in the case where there occurs the necessity of making reference to such information later, a quantity of information to be retrieved would be increased. As a result, it might take a long time until necessary information is obtained.
OBJECT AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
With the above in view, an object of this invention is to provide an information providing and collecting apparatus which can rapidly obtain and reproduce information, e.g., news, etc., and which can preserve only a necessary portion of such information, and retrieve or reproduce the necessary information with ease in the future.
A first information providing and collecting apparatus of this invention has been proposed in order to attain the above-desired object. Namely, this apparatus comprises a selector means for selecting a specific portion of information recorded in a primary recording medium, and is adapted to record select information indicating the specific portion of the information from the selector means into the primary recording medium, and to transfer the information of the specific portion specified by the select information to a secondary recording medium.
Further, a second information providing and collecting apparatus of this invention comprises reproducing means for reproducing information recorded in a primary recording medium, selector means for selecting a portion to be transferred to a secondary recording medium of the information recorded in the primary recording medium, and recording means for recording the select information specified by the selector means into the primary recording medium.
In addition, a third information providing and collecting apparatus includes recording/reproducing means for recording, onto a secondary recording medium, only a portion specified by select information indicating a specific portion of recorded information in a primary recording medium where information including that select information is recorded.
The third information providing and collecting apparatus comprises reproducing means for information recorded on the secondary recording medium, and further comprises retrieving means for retrieving the content of the primary recording medium on the basis of information recorded on the secondary recording medium.
In the above-mentioned first, second and third information providing and collecting apparatuses, audio information, picture information and character information are included in information recorded in the primary recording medium. This primary recording medium is comprised of a semiconductor memory.
Further, in the above-mentioned first and second information providing and collecting apparatuses, information recorded in the primary recording medium is information recorded while being divided in point of time by information dividing means. This information dividing means detects a specific signal to carry out division of information. It is to be noted that selection of the specific portion of information is made by carrying out inputting to the selector means during reproduction of any portion of the information. In addition, at the time of transfer to the secondary recording medium, date information is recorded onto the secondary recording medium.
A fourth information providing and collecting apparatus of this invention comprises signal input means adapted so that a signal is inputted thereto, signal converting means for converting that input signal, information dividing means for dividing output information of the signal converting means, and recording means for recording output information of the signal converting means and divided information. Here, the information dividing means serves to carry out the division in accordance with detection of specific information from output information of the signal converting means. Additionally, this apparatus comprises radio signal receiving means as the signal input means.
Further, the first to fourth information providing and collecting apparatuses of this invention comprise clock means so that date information can be recorded.
A fifth information providing and collecting apparatus of this invention comprises adding means for adding an information division signal to a signal outputted. Here, the information division signal is a signal of a specific frequency. By using this signal, it is possible to transmit information by radio or by wire.
The recording medium of this invention is a recording medium in which information including transfer indication information to a secondary recording medium is recorded. Into the recording medium of this invention, information including audio information, information including picture information, information including character information, and information including date information are recorded. This recording medium is preferably comprised of a semiconductor memory.
In accordance with the information providing and collecting apparatus, user of this apparatus a operates means for selecting information required for preservation at the time of reproducing information, or the like to transfer only information specified by the select information to the recording medium, thereby making it possible to easily preserve necessary information.
Namely, in accordance with this invention, a user of the information recording/reproducing device (portable recorder) of the information providing and collecting apparatus operates selector means for selecting information required to be preserved at the time of reproduction of information, or the like to transfer only information specified by the select information to the recording medium, thereby making it possible to easily preserve necessary information. Accordingly, it is possible to rapidly obtain or reproduce information such as news, etc., and to easily record only the necessary portion thereof onto the secondary recording medium. Thus, it is possible to retrieve or reproduce necessary information with ease another day.
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Dinh Tan
Kananen Ronald P.
Rader Fishman & Grauer
Sony Corporation
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