Audio signal recording apparatus

• US 5,161,070 A
• Filed: 01/21/1992
• Issued: 11/03/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Horii, Hiroyuki, Takahashi, Hirokazu, Hori, Masashi, Muramoto, Tomotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Canney, Vincent P.
• Application Number:
  US07/824,697
• Time in Patent Office: 287 Days
• Field of Search: 360/8, 360/74.1
• US Class Current: 360/8
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/02 Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing

Abstract

A recording apparatus for recording sounds continuously over a plurality of successive tracks is provided with pause command means arranged upon actuation to terminate the recording on the track being accessed at present time, and upon deactuation to alter the access of the recording head to a different track from that accessed track in which recording of sound is started again.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus for recording a continuous information signal in a plurality of memory blocks, comprising:

(a) generating means for generating a pause start command and a pause release while information recording is in progress;

b) storing means for storing said continuous information temporarily;

(c) recording means for recording said continuous information stored in said storing means in said memory blocks, said recording means being arranged to record said continuous information together with an end signal of said continuous information; and

(d) means associated with the pause start command generated by said generating means for causing said recording means to record the continuous information stored in said storing means, without recording said end signal, when said pause start command is generated, said means being responsive to the storage of said continuous information in said storage means for a predetermined period to cause said recording means to record said continuous information stored in said storage means, and said means being arranged to record said end signal when the pause condition by said pause start command is not released and a record terminating command is given.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said memory blocks are concentric tracks formed on a disk-shaped recording medium.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said generating means produces the pause start command and the pause release command in response to a manual operation.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

(e) means, when a recording on one memory block is followed by a recording on the next memory block, for recording the block number of said next memory block in said one memory block.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said information signal is an audio signal.

6. An apparatus according in claim 1, wherein said recording means is arranged to record a predetermined amount of said continuous information, at a time, into said memory blocks.

7. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said memory blocks are concentric tracks formed on a disk-shaped recording medium.

8. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for starting a storing of said continuous information into said storing means in response to said pause release command.

9. An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said generating means produces the pause start command and the pause release command in response to a manual operation.

10. A recording apparatus for recording a continuous information signal in a plurality of memory blocks, comprising:

(a) generating means for generating a pause start command and a pause release command while information recording is in progress;

(b) storing means for storing said continuous information temporarily;

(c) recording means for recording said continuous information stored in said storing means in said memory blocks, said recording means being arranged to record said continuous information together with an end signal of said continuous information; and

(d) means associated with the pause start command generated by said generating means for causing said recording means to record the continuous information stored i said storing means, without recording said end signal when said pause start command is generated by said generating means and being responsive to the pause release command for causing said storing means to store the continuous information, said means being responsive to the storage of said continuous information in said storage means for a predetermined period for causing said recording means to record said continuous information stored in said storage means, and said means being arranged to record said end signal when the pause condition by said pause start command is not released and a record terminating command is given.

11. An apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

(d) means, when recording on one memory block is followed by recording on a next memory block, for recording the block number of said next memory block in said one memory block.

12. An apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

(e) means for commanding a termination of recording at a time during the stopping of the recording by said stopping means; and

(f) means responsive to termination of recording commanded by said commanding means for revising the block number recorded by said recording means.