Patent ID: 6332058
Filing Date: 2001-12-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An information reproduction apparatus for reading out an information material having a plurality of clips and consecutively reproducing the clips of the information material, comprising:a recording medium on which an information material having a plurality of clips is recorded;information material storing means, including temporary buffer means, for reading out, upon request and in sequence, a first clip and a second clip of the information material that each consist of a plurality of clusters from the recording medium, and writing the readout clips to the temporary buffer means;write finish flag generating means for setting a write finish flag at a time point when writing of a cluster of the second clip from the recording medium to the temporary buffer means by the information material storing means is finished;information material reproducing means for reproducing the first clip from the temporary buffer means at the same time that the second clip is being written in the temporary buffer means by the information material storing means, and including means for detecting the setting of the write finish flag and pausing reproduction of the first clip until the write finish flag is detected as having been set, so that even in a case where at least part of a last cluster of the first clip is invalid data all of the second clip will be written to the temporary buffer means.