Multiple user recording system

Details Multiple user recording system Multiple user recording system

1998-04-06

2001-07-17

Chevalier, Robert (Department: 2615)

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

C386S349000, C386S349000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06263154

ABSTRACT:

This invention relates to recording systems and more particularly to systems for custom recording tape cassettes or other recording media by recording a number of specific selections taken from a repertoire of selections which is stored in a library or libraries.
For convenience of expression, this specification may refer to music, tape, libraries, albums, and the like. However, it should be understood that these and similar expressions should be construed broadly enough to cover all equivalent items and structures. For example, the recorded information may be, not only music, but also a recorded foreign language lesson, poetry, telemetry, sound effects, or any other suitable items. The recording media could be tape, records, compact discs, optical tracks on film, or the like. The “library” could be any suitable data base, including satellite, slave, or other distributed libraries. For example, each recording company may have a remote library of its musical selections which the inventive recorder may reach via a telecommunication network. The term “album” is used herein to mean a certain batch amount of recorded information items, regardless of whether the items are music, voice, or some other material. Long play records and tape cassettes are examples of albums; however, there may also be other examples.
One example of the invention is found in the recording industry which issues “singles” and “albums”. If singles are played, the listener hears exactly what he wants to hear, but he has to continuously change records or tapes, which is a bother. On the other hand, if an album is played, the listener usually likes one or two of the many selections which are recorded thereon and is indifferent to or positively dislikes the remaining selections in the album. The alternative is to buy expensive play back equipment which can pick one of many selections in an album. However, this, in effect, reduces the album to one or two singles with all of the same problems that singles present.
Within a few years after a recording is first made, it is “cut out” of the music catalogs which list the records that are then being offered to the general public. After it becomes a “cut out”, the musical selection may be included in albums at a very low cost, and often is offered as a special issue to a select audience, such as the listeners of a TV station, but the question of taste remains and not all of the records are enjoyable to everyone. After a few more years, recorded music tends to become unavailable at any cost. Then, those who are in their nostalgia years do not have the option of playing a recently acquired record containing the music of their youth.
Thus, there are many reasons why there is a need for a system which enables one to select only his favorite music for inclusion in a custom recorded album. This way, everyone may then have a customized album of selections of his own taste which may be totally different from the albums which anyone else may select.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,410,917 has a capability of recording from a master medium onto a slave medium but it does not provide a random selection capability and does not provide a sufficient flexibility. The structure of this patent can not rearrange, edit, or modify the stored information items. It is strictly a duplicator of recorded media.
A desirable kind of master-slave recording system is one which might eventually become almost as commonplace as record stores. Still, the growth of such an industry may be relatively slow; therefore, the same system should also be adaptable to use in a single central location where custom recorded albums are made for distribution via the mail.
Accordingly an object of this invention is to provide new and improved means for and methods of distributing recorded music. Here, an object is to provide systems for preparing customized recorded albums containing only recorded information selected by an individual.
In keeping with an aspect of the invention, these and other objects are accomplished under the control of a microprocessor or mini-computer. A master library, libraries, data base or storage medium contain recorded information which may originate from any suitable source, such as phonograph records, tapes, sound tracks, compact discs, telemetry sources, or the like. Each recorded information item in the library is stored under its own address. On read out, an operator keys in the addresses identifying the selected recorded information item. The selected items are read out of the library medium and stored in a large capacity memory, usually to provide a total of about forty-five minutes of listening time. Then, all of the items are read out of that large capacity memory and recorded at a high speed onto a suitable album size medium, such as a tape cassette, for example. The various transfers of recorded information items from the aster storage to the recorded album, may be accomplished at a high speed.


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