Patent 7266286 was granted and assigned to Sony on September, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Temporarily storing audio data to be reproduced in the block form, temporarily storing synthesized audio data in the block form, generating and supplying a reference signal, and calculating the first address of the block of audio data, the editing system of the present invention enables identifying the buffering position of the recording signal and then matching the position to the reproduced signal, resulting in quick editing.