Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Atsushi Kimura

Hiroyuki Hirano

Sumio Hosaka

Yoshiki Furuta

Hiroshi Horii

A recording medium playing apparatus allows an arbitrary and easy selection and reproduction of each information piece of a recording medium carrying a plurality of information pieces which variously represent a scene on the same time axis position during reproduction of information. In the recording medium playing apparatus for playing a recording medium on which same-time information groups each formed by a plurality of information pieces of the same time position are recorded, reproducing means for reproducing information of the recording medium reproduces information of the recording medium by arbitrarily selecting each information piece of the recording medium based on a command for reproducing each same-time information group.

Recording medium playing apparatus for reproducing same time information

A disk player capable of playing one of a plurality of disks arranged on a tray, comprises a housing, and a tray having a center and a plurality of disk rests aligned radially around the center of the tray, the tray movable between a disk loading position outside of the housing and an operating position located inside the housing the center of the tray corresponding to a disk playing position when the tray is in the operating position. A disk selecting device includes a rotatable-arm member rotatable about the disk playing position and a disk holder slidably attached to the rotatable-arm member, the disk holder reciprocatively movable between the disk playing position and one of the plurality of disk rests for moving a selected disk to be played from its associated disk rest to the disk playing position. A disk detecting device is attached to the disk holder and detects whether the selected disk is attached to the disk holder. The tray is ejected from inside the disk player housing when the disk detecting device determines that the selected disk has become detached from the disk holder during movement of the selected disk from the disk rest to the disk playing position.

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Atsushi Kimura