Arrangement for selecting titles from a storage media containing a number of recording titles in a magazine

• US 5,515,347 A
• Filed: 07/21/1994
• Issued: 05/07/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert Vincent Martinez
• Original Assignee: NSM AG
• Inventors: Kuehl, Thomas, Mulder, Arjen J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Neyzari, Ali
• Application Number:
  US08/256,587
• Time in Patent Office: 656 Days
• Field of Search: 369/30, 369/36, 369/38, 369/75.2, 369/77.1, 369/77.2, 369/192, 369/13, 360/98.06, 360/59, 360/114
• US Class Current: 369/30.08
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/305 for record players
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 17/22 from random access magazine of disc records
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/30 with provision for auxiliary signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A system which enables the titles of recordings to be selected from storage media containing a number of titles and held in a magazine, in particular the titles of CDs housed in a number of CD boxes. The storage media include a list of the recording titles they contain. Also called for is a player for the recordings. The system includes a device, forming part of the recording player, which enables titles selected from any of the storage media to be played; a decoding device, forming part of the recording player, which converts keyed-in code numbers into title selections; a light pen, connectable to the player, for reading bar codes, with the bar codes thus read being fed to the decoder; and a compilation, separate from the storage media and recording player, of bar codes, each of which corresponds to one of the stored titles of the recordings and can be read by the light pen.

Claims

1. An arrangement for selecting titles from storage media which respectively contain a plurality of recording titles and which are disposed in a magazine, wherein the storage media bear a list of the recording titles they contain, said arrangement comprising;

a playback device having a device that permits the playback of selected recording titles from the respective storage media, said playback device further having a decoding device that converts entered codes into selected recording titles;

a compilation, separate from the storage media and the playback unit, of visual codes which are respectively associated with the individual recording titles of the storage media; and

a light pen for reading selected ones of the visual codes, with said light pen for selecting visual codes of recording titles being connected to the decoding device to supply the read visual codes thereto, and said decoding device being connected to the playback device such that the decoding device transmits to the playback device the recording titles selected by said light pen.

2. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the visual codes are bar codes.

3. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the compilation of the codes comprise one or a plurality of sheets in the form of a folder, an album or a book form, bearing the codes.

4. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the codes are provided on stickers.

5. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the codes include first and second codes, wherein the first codes are respectively associated with a storage medium and the second codes are respectively associated with a recording title of a storage medium such that the combination of the first and second codes permits an unambiguous identification of all recording titles in one magazine.

6. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the codes are applied to the jackets, or content lists and/or the storage containers of the storage media.

7. An arrangement according to claim 3, wherein jackets for said recording media are included in the compilations.

8. An arrangement according to claim 1, comprising a further storage medium for the compilation of the recording titles and their code allocation.

9. An arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising a diskette for storing the compilation of the recording titles and their code allocation.

10. An arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising an external input unit and a data line to the playback device for the input of the selected recording title.

11. An arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising visual operating codes.

12. An arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising a display device.

13. An arrangement according to claim 1, including remote transmission of the read codes to the playback unit.