US 6,643,086 B1Granted

Tape driving apparatus

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsTakao Hiramoto, Yoshihisa Takayama, Tatsuya Kato, Kazuyuki Hirooka, Kenichiro Kikukawa

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Abstract

A tape driving apparatus which operates corresponding to the individual tape cassette loaded therein. A tape driving unit is included for running a magnetic tape included in the tape cassette and for recording/reproducing information to/from the magnetic tape. A memory driving unit is provided for reading/writing management information from/to a memory by implementing a predetermined communicating process. The memory is located at the tape cassette and stores the management information for managing a recording/reproducing operation to/from the magnetic tape. Identification information of the tape cassette is detected from the memory. A knowledge information memory stores knowledge information formed of operation specifying information and conditional information corresponding to the identification information of the tape cassette. The conditional information is evaluated based on the identification information. A controller controls a predetermined operation corresponding to the operation specifying information based on a result of the evaluation.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A tape driving apparatus, comprising:

tape driving means for running a magnetic tape included in a tape cassette and for recording/reproducing information to/from said magnetic tape;
memory driving means for reading/writing management information from/to a memory by implementing a predetermined communicating process, said memory being located at said tape cassette for storing said management information for managing a recording/reproducing operation to/from said magnetic tape;
identification information detecting means for detecting identification information of said tape cassette from said memory;
knowledge information storage means, included in said tape driving apparatus, for storing knowledge information formed of operation specifying information and conditional information corresponding to the identification information of said tape cassette;
evaluating means for evaluating said knowledge information based on said identification information;
a controller for controlling a predetermined operation corresponding to said operation specifying information based on a result of evaluation of said evaluating means;
input means for inputting additional knowledge information from outside the tape driving apparatus;
and
knowledge information updating means for updating the knowledge information stored in said knowledge information storage means with said additional knowledge information inputted from the outside via said input means.

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A tape driving apparatus, comprising:

tape driving means for running a magnetic tape included in a tape cassette and for recording/reproducing information to/from said magnetic tape;
memory driving means for reading/writing management information from/to a memory by implementing a predetermined communicating process, said memory being located at said tape cassette for storing said management information for managing a recording/reproducing operation to/from said magnetic tape;
identification information detecting means for detecting identification information of said tape cassette from said memory;
operation specifying information storage means, included in said tape driving apparatus, for storing operation specifying information corresponding to the identification information of said tape cassette;
a controller for controlling a predetermined operation corresponding to said operation specifying information according to the identification information;
input means for inputting additional operation specifying information from outside the tape driving apparatus;
and
operation specifying information updating means for updating the operation specifying information stored in said operation specifying information storage means with said additional operation specifying information inputted from the outside via said input means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/538,876Filed 30 Mar 2000
Priority: JP P11-09332231 Mar 1999
Granted: 4 Nov 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G11B 15/07
By sensing auxiliary features on record carriers or containers, e.g. to stop machine near the end of a tape: on containers
G11B 15/06
By sensing features present on or derived from record carrier or container: by sensing auxiliary features on record carriers or containers, e.g.…
G11B 23/08714
Details: auxiliary features
G11B 27/107
Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers: of operating tapes