Patent ID: 6831798
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An apparatus for reproducing information, comprising:a disc type storage device for storing a plurality of informations in a disc-shaped recording medium, each of said plurality of informations including a first partial information and a second partial information following, said first partial information; a solid-state storage device for storing the first partial informations of arbitrarily selected informations to be reproduced of said plurality of informations; a first partial information reading device for reading out the first partial information of at least one information of said arbitrarily selected informations to be reproduced; a first partial information reproduction device for reproducing the first partial information thus read out; a second partial information reading device for reading out the second partial information of said at least one information during reproduction of said first partial information; and a second partial information reproduction device for reproducing the second partial information thus read out.