VIDEO RENTAL SYSTEM BY DISK TYPE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND WRITE-IN DEVICE AND REPRODUCING DEVICE FOR RENTAL SOFTWARE USED FOR THIS SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video rental system in which video software is not required to return. SOLUTION: This system is installed in a rental stop, and provided with a write-in device 10 for rental software writing video software to be returned out and its rental term in a disk type stora...

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Main Authors MIZOGUCHI YOSUKE, NARUSE YOSHIZUMI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 28.04.2000
Edition7
Subjects
INFORMATION STORAGE
INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
PHYSICS
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Summary:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video rental system in which video software is not required to return. SOLUTION: This system is installed in a rental stop, and provided with a write-in device 10 for rental software writing video software to be returned out and its rental term in a disk type storage medium 30, and a reproducing device 20 reading its rental term from the disk type storage medium 30 and enabling reproducing video software only in the rental term. Then, the write-in device 10 is operated by a customer being a borrower. A rental term is ciphered and written in a control track of the disk type storage medium. The reproducing device compares a rental term and the present time obtained by a reading means 21 reading a rental term written in a rental disk and a time obtaining means 25 obtaining the present time, video software written in the rental disk can be reproduced only when the present time does not elapses over the rental time.
Bibliography:Application Number: JP19980316887