MDCP: Patent Abstact US05680379: Information reproduction apparatus having means to control maximum delay of information being read from memory

US05680379 Information reproduction apparatus having means to control maximum delay of information being read from memory

Assignee Mitsubishi Denki Corporation

Assign./Filed Oct. 21, 1997/ April 19, 1993

Inventors Ishida; Masayuki, Endo; Kazuhito, Tsukamoto; Manabu, Hirai; Nobuaki, Ishida; Yoshinobu

Summary Shock-proof buffer management technique to reduce mute time during inadvertent track skip and upon user initiated disk change.

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 to allow the monitoring of the contents of all disks.

US05680379	Information reproduction apparatus having means to control maximum delay of information being read from memory
Assignee	Mitsubishi Denki Corporation
Assign./Filed	Oct. 21, 1997/ April 19, 1993
Inventors	Ishida; Masayuki, Endo; Kazuhito, Tsukamoto; Manabu, Hirai; Nobuaki, Ishida; Yoshinobu
Summary	Shock-proof buffer management technique to reduce mute time during inadvertent track skip and upon user initiated disk change.
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 to allow the monitoring of the contents of all disks.