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Reproducing apparatus and reproducing/recording apparatus memorizing identification information of optical information meda and method thereof

US6393201B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateDec 28, 1998
Grant dateMay 21, 2002
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Expiry dateDec 28, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N9/8042
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A reproducing or reproducing/recording apparatus of an optical information recording medium, wherein identifier information obtained by reading out the information from the optical information recording medium with a drive 1a, video/audio information, and information indicative of reproducing position are memorized into a work memory 3, and the identifier information and the information indicative of reproducing position, which are memorized in the work memory, are read out to be stored into a non-volatile memory 9 on the basis of interruption instruction outputted from a interruption instruction means 4 at a desired time duration or period. With such the construction, it is possible to obtain the reproduction of the medium directly form when electric power including electric power supply is turned ON, even if the electric power supply is abruptly turned OFF or a stopped, and further if a power button is turned OFF with forgetting an operation of a last memory instruction key.

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