Patent ID: 7502379
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk playback apparatus including a pickup for reading data recorded on a disk, a memory for storing playback data generated in response to a signal obtained from the pickup, and an AV decoder for generating a video signal and an audio signal in response to the playback data stored in the memory, said disk playback apparatus comprising: an address detecting section for detecting, when the playback data stored in said memory is picture data, an address at which the picture data is recorded on the disk; an address memory section for storing, every time said address detecting section detects the address, the detected address in place of an address which has been stored already so that said address memory section always stores the address corresponding to the latest played back picture data on the disk; and a controller for restarting reading, with the pickup, the data recorded on the disk from the address stored in said address memory section in response to a playback instruction issued after a stop, wherein the address detecting section detects the address of the playback data only when the playback data contains picture data.