Apparatus for reproducing information based on the type of compression method used in compressing the information
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorsShinichiro Abe, Takayuki Iijima
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Abstract
An information reproducing apparatus which reads compressed information recorded on a recording medium by one of a plurality of different compression methods, writes the compressed information read into a memory, supplies the compressed information in the memory, to an expander in the order of writing and outputs reproduced information. The type of compression method used in compressing the information read from the recording medium is determined and the timing of starting to read the compressed information from the memory is controlled in accordance with a determination.
Claims6
An information reproducing apparatus for expanding compressed information recorded on a recording medium by one of a plurality of different compression methods, and outputs reproduced information based on the expanded information, said apparatus comprising:
- a reading device for reading compressed information recorded on said recording medium;
- a memory controller for writing the compressed information read by said reading device into a memory, reading the compressed information written in said memory in the order of writing;
- a decoding device for demodulating the information read by said memory controller;
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- a judging device for determining which of the plurality of compression methods is used as a compression method of the compressed information read by said reading device,
- wherein said memory controller starts to read the compressed information from said memory when an amount of the compressed information written into said memory reaches a first storage information amount corresponding to a compression method determined by the judging device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.