Patent ID: 6154866
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: G11B,H03M

Abstract:
A reproducing apparatus comprising:first error correction processing means for performing an error detection and error correction processing using inner codes on coded data, which is subjected to an error correction coding processing with multiplication codes and read out from a predetermined record medium;second error correction processing means for performing an error detection and error correction processing using outer codes on said coded data;condition discriminating means for discriminating whether or not said coded data satisfy predetermined conditions;control means for forbidding the error detection and error correction processing by said second error correction processing means in accordance with said discrimination result;decoding means for performing a decoding processing on said coded data subjected to the error detection and error correction by said first error correction processing means and/or said second error correction processing means; andreproduction outputting means for outputting data subjected to said decoding processing.