A player system for a video disk or a compact audio disk in which the time to move the pickup to the start of a playing position of a selection other than at the beginning of the disk is considerably reduced. The pickup is first moved to a position substantially at the middle of the area containing recorded...http://www.google.de/patents/US4855978?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US4855978 - Video/compact disk player having reduced track search time
