Panasonic Corporation

Nobuo Moritani

Hiroyuki Kotani

Toshikazu Murai

Masami Yasui

Hiroaki Mizoguchi

Provided is an audio reproduction device capable of immediately starting to reproduce audio data, particularly compressed audio data, from an arbitrary point in a forward or a backward direction at an arbitrary speed. In the case where data, to be reproduced, which is stored in a storage device is compressed data, the compressed data is temporarily stored in a RAM. Then, the stored compressed data is decoded by a decoder, thereby extracting a segment of PCM data. The segment of PCM data is supplied to a PCM data buffer formed in a RAM via a reproduction controlling microcomputer. Based on an operation of a rotational operation element, the PCM data stored in the PCM data buffer formed in the RAM is reproduced by a reproduction processing circuit, thereby reducing a rapid change in reproduction speed.

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Osaka, Japan

Nobuo Moritani