Pioneer Display Products Corporation

Masaaki Saito

Kenichiro Tada

Tsutomu Takahashi

Ichiro Miyake

Gaku Yamamura

Kazutomo Watanabe

Tsutomu Ohtani

Yasuyuki Noda

Masayoshi Murayama

Hiroshi Kida

An information recording and reproducing apparatus with a ring buffer, in which user can know a state of the ring buffer in a real-time manner and a monitoring method of the ring buffer. A ring buffer monitor image signal is generated which indicates an image showing a relative positional relation of a current recording position and a current reproducing position in the ring buffer.

Information recording and reproducing apparatus with a ring buffer and method for monitoring ring buffer

Disclosed is an apparatus for recording and reproducing information and an information reproducing method in which the reproducing operation can be restarted from a position where reproduction was interrupted. The restart is possible for all of information contents recorded on a recording medium and without the need of troublesome operations. For this purpose, reproduction history information representing a reproduction history of each of the information contents recorded on the recording medium is stored in a management memory.

Apparatus for recording and reproducing information and information reproducing method

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Fukuroi, Japan

Masaaki Saito