US 5,852,593 A · Reproduction apparatus and method for successively playing back information from a plurality of recording media

Abstract

An information reproduction apparatus capable of reducing or eliminating the mute period when a pickup jumps during the reproduction or when a disk is changed in an information reproduction system provided with a disk changer mechanism for selecting one disk from plural disks, or when a disk is forced to change, or an information reproduction apparatus of displaying the time information corresponding to the actual outputting time of information from the output terminal by correcting the time information included in the information read from the recording medium or determined by the recording address, or an information reproduction system provided with a disk changer mechanism capable of checking the contents of other disks during reproduction, or system of reproducing only parts of information which allow to view the contents of all disks.

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Dependent claims

A playback method for reproducing information from a plurality of recording media comprising the steps of:

pre-reproducing information from a limited portion of each of the plurality of recording media;
pre-storing the pre-reproduced information from the limited portion of each of the plurality of recording media in auxiliary memory;
determining which of the plurality of recording media has been selected for playback;
reading the pre-stored information from the auxiliary memory corresponding to the selected recording medium;
reproducing information from the selected recording medium which immediately follows the pre-stored information for that recording medium while pre-stored information from auxiliary memory is being read;
storing information resulting from said reproducing step in primary memory;
and
reading out reproduced information from primary memory after the pre-stored information for the selected medium has been read from auxiliary memory.

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An apparatus for playing back information from a plurality of recording media comprising:

first reproducing means for reproducing information from a limited portion of each of the plurality of recording media;
first storing means for storing the reproduced information from the limited portion of each of the plurality of recording media in auxiliary memory;
determining means for determining which of the plurality of recording media has been selected for playback;
first reading means for reading information from said auxiliary memory corresponding to the selected recording medium;
second reproducing means for reproducing information from the selected recording medium which immediately follows the information for that recording medium stored in auxiliary memory while said first reading means reads information from auxiliary memory;
second storing means for storing information obtained by said second reproducing means in primary memory;
and
second reading means for reading reproduced information from primary memory after the information stored in auxiliary memory for the selected medium has been read out by said first reading means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Reproduction apparatus and method for successively playing back information from a plurality of recording media

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Reproduction apparatus and method for successively playing back information from a plurality of recording media

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