Patent ID: 6757229
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An information reproducing apparatus comprising:a reading device for reading reproduction information recorded in an information record medium; a buffering device for temporarily accumulating the read reproduction information therein and outputting it; a reproduction controlling device for stopping reproducing the reproduction information while maintaining the reproduction information in the buffering device when a command indicative of stop of reproduction is requested from an external portion during the reproduction of the reproduction information, and outputting the reproduction information accumulated in the buffering device to resume reproducing it when a command indicative of resumption of the reproduction is requested from the external portion; and a monitoring device for monitoring an accumulation amount of the reproduction information in the buffering device, wherein the reproduction controlling device stops reading the reproduction information from the information record medium when the accumulation amount of the reproduction information reaches a reference accumulation amount after the stop is indicated, in case where the accumulation amount in the buffering device is less than the reference accumulation amount when the stop of the reproduction is indicated, the reference accumulation amount predetermined on the basis of an output of the reproduction information from the buffering device at the time of the resumption of the reproduction.