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Multilingual recording medium which comprises frequency of use data/history data and a plurality of menus which are stored in a still picture format

Patent 5835669 Issued on November 10, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 23, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 861823 filed on 05/23/1997

US Classes:

386/97, Selective mode (e.g., mono, stereo, or bilingual)386/95, Having another signal386/125Using disc

Examiners

Primary: Olms, Douglas W.
Assistant: Vincent, David

Attorney, Agent or Firm

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International Classes

H04N 005/91
H04N 005/928
H04N 007/04
H04N 007/06

Abstract

A reproduction apparatus is designed to select and decode speech and subtitles (characters) in a given language from a disk on which various types of information are recorded in different languages. This system arrangement makes it possible to standardize the manufacture of disks and reproduction apparatuses world-wide, resulting in a reduction in production cost. In a disk 100, various types of information are recorded in different languages along with video information. A reproduction apparatus selects information in a given language from the reproduced information using a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, and an operator section 205, and supplies the selected pieces of information to each of a video processing section 206, a subtitle decoder 211, and an audio processing section 213.

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