Patent ID: 6909562

Claim:
A magnetic read control apparatus comprising: a medium carrying section configured to carry an inserted medium having a magnetic stripe; a magnetic head carrying section configured to carry a magnetic head in a predetermined direction; a reading section configured to read information stored in the magnetic stripe with the magnetic head; a control section configured to control the reading section so as to read the information stored in the magnetic stripe by varying a relative carrying velocity between a velocity at which the medium carrying section carries the medium and a velocity at which the magnetic head carrying section carries the magnetic head when a read error occurs in the reading section, and a level determining section configured to determine a level at which a waveform of the information read by the reading section is reproduced, wherein the control section: (i) increases the relative carrying velocity to be higher than a carrying velocity for a read error when the read error occurs in the reading section when the level determined by the level determining section is lower than a preset level, and (ii) decreases the relative carrying velocity to be lower than a carrying velocity for a read error when the read error occurs in the reading section when the level determined by the level determining section is higher than the preset level.