Patent ID: 7372791

Claim:
A recording/reproducing apparatus adapted for performing Read After Write operation for signals through a recording medium, the recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: first distribution means for distributing reproduction signals obtained from the recording medium to plural channels; second distribution means for distributing cause signals of crosstalk signals included in the reproduction signals obtained from the recording medium to plural channels; memory means of plural channels for storing, every channel, the reproduction signals and the cause signals which have been distributed to plural channels by the first and second distribution means; and crosstalk cancellers of plural channels for generating pseudo crosstalk signals of respective channels on the basis of the reproduction signals and the cause signals of respective channels which are read out from an extension bit or bits of the memory means of plural channels to cancel crosstalk signals included in the reproduction signals of respective channels, wherein, in a reproducing system, there are obtained reproduction signals of plural channels in which crosstalk signals have been cancelled every channel by the crosstalk cancellers of plural channels.