Bar code indexing apparatus for a video disc system
CA 1202417 A · Owner: Fields, Craig I. · Inventors: Fields, Craig I.
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The present invention is an indexing apparatus for use in combination with a printed index which has a set of associated bar codes each of which corresponds to a unique set of items in the printed index. The indexing apparatus is electrically coupled to an information storage and retrieval system. The indexing apparatus includes a bar code reading device for reading each of the set of associated bar codes of the printed index. The indexing apparatus also includes an accessing device, electrically coupled to the bar code reading device, for accessing the unique set of items within the storage and retrieval system which corrseponds to a particular associated bar code. The storage and …
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- Granted March 25, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 25, 2003.
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