Information processing apparatus with multitasking capability
AssigneeIntellectual Science and Technology Inc.
InventorHoward Hong-Dough Lee
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Abstract
A high-performance optical information processing apparatus having various hardware for arriving at multitasking function. The optical information processing apparatus provides disc-loading and unloading flexibility, allows a user to launch a software program or simultaneously several software programs directly from an optical disc and/or several optical discs stored therein, eliminates tedious and time-consuming software installation, affords a kind of copy-right protection to software, and alleviates the burden of accessing a hard-disk drive during the process of information reproduction.
Claims3
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- (a) a plurality of turntables each for detachably storing an optical disc thereon;
- (b) a plurality of optical units, each comprising a driving means and an optical read head, wherein said driving means is provided for moving said optical read head in a radial direction of said optical disc to a predetermined disc position on one surface of a selected optical disc;
- (c) means for simultaneously controlling a plurality of said driving means so as to move a plurality of said optical read heads in radial directions of said optical discs to a plurality of predetermined disc tracks for simultaneously retrieving information stored thereon;
- (d) a plurality of signal-process systems for processing a plurality of information sets retrieved by said plurality of optical read heads;
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- (e) data transmitting means for transmitting a plurality of the information sets by said plurality of signal-process systems.
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- (a) at least one disc-setting table each for bearing an optical disc thereon, said at least one disc-setting table each comprising disc-releasing means having an outward-biased tendency for pushing said optical disc apart from said disc-setting table;
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- (b) at least one disc-holding and -releasing means each comprising (i) a hollow member that has an elevated center portion being sized to fit into the center hole of said optical disc, (ii) disc-holding means retractable into the inside of said hollow member but preferably returning to its outward-biased normal position protruding to the outside of said hollow member for locking said optical disc in place, and (iii) a releasing button that upon pressing retracts said disc-holding means to the inside of said hollow member, so as to allow said disc-releasing means to push said optical disc apart from said disc-setting table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.