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US 5,313,235 AGranted
Sound playback apparatus capable of playing back sounds relevant to photographs
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsManabu Inoue, Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Hiroshi Ueda, Yujiro Mima, Masakazu Yagi, Masayasu Hirano
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Abstract
In a sound playback apparatus, by attaching thereto a medium in which sound data are recorded in each area thereof and a print in each frame of which a code indicating a sound recording area is recorded, the sound playback apparatus can play back sound data corresponding to the photographed frames of the film respectively from the medium.
Claims1
A sound playback apparatus comprising:
- a sound recording medium attaching section to which a sound recording medium is to be attached, said sound recording medium having a plurality of recording areas and wherein said sound recording medium is capable of recording sound data in each of said recording areas;
- an image recording medium attaching section to which an image recording medium is to be attached, said image recording medium having codes indicating the sound recording areas and wherein the image recording medium records photographed images;
- reading means for reading said codes of the image recording medium;
- detecting means for detecting recording areas in the sound recording medium corresponding to said codes read by the reading means;
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- playback means for playing back sound data corresponding to the recording areas detected by the detecting means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.