Alpine Electronics, Inc.

Toshiba Alpine Automotive Technology Corporation

Nobunori Kudou

Yusuke Yoshida

Tsutomu Tatekawa

Tokio Suzuki

Ichiro Kato

Hiroshi Kawase

Yousuke Kuno

When a normal disk having the diameter of 12 cm is inserted into the disk device, first and second optical detecting elements detect the insertion, and transitions to a first detection state, which initiates transfer operation of first and second transfer rollers. If the disk is further moved to an inner portion of the device, thus pressing first and second detecting pins, first and second detecting switches are turned OFF, and the detecting elements enter a second detection state. Before the transition from the first detection state to the second detection state occurs, a rotating speed of the first and second transfer rollers is set low. After transition to the second detection state, the rotating speed is increased. As a result, a card or other such foreign objects can be removed and a monitoring period can be increased until detection of a normal disk is detected.

Disc device having multiple disk carry-in speeds

When an instruction is given to perform a playback operation, for example, a fast-forward operation, at a speed greater than normal, a system controller obtains playback data (VOBU) corresponding to a current playback position, and the video images and the subtitles are played back by using this VOBU, and are displayed. The system controller then moves the playback position by a predetermined amount of movement (for example, three VOBUs) without performing the fast playback operation. The fast playback operation is then performed by using the VOBU corresponding to the moved playback position. In this manner, the fast playback operation and the movement operation are alternately repeated to display the video images and the subtitles.

Disk playback apparatus and disk playback method

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Iwaki, Japan

Nobunori Kudou