Patent ID: 7483620
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. Replay appliance for a recording medium containing information blocks, having means for accessing at a defined playing time information stored on the recording medium containing information blocks without time code information recorded in each sector of the recording medium for correlating a replay time with a recording location and without a concordance list that correlates replay time with recording location, the appliance comprising: a scanning device for scanning data on a recording medium; search means for binary searching recording points on the recording medium, analyzing a data stream read from the recording medium to find a designator on the basis of a replay time; and a comparator for comparing a replay time contained in the information following said designator which has been scanned from the recording medium with a desired replay time, wherein the scanning device scans the recording medium by said binary search at a point which corresponds to a result of a comparison by the comparator to access at the defined playing time.