Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Sanyo Technosound Co., Ltd.

Tsutomu Sasaki

Masanao Yoshida

A signal reproducing device of the present invention includes a signal storing device, a buffer memory, and a signal processing circuit. The buffer memory is concurrently provided with a first storing area for storing a head portion of a plurality of sequential signals and a second storing area for storing a remaining portion other than the head portion of one sequential signal. The signal processing circuit starts an operation, when a signal selecting manipulation is made, of reading out and reproducing a head portion of a selected sequential signal from the first storing area, during the operation, reads out a remaining portion of the selected sequential signal from the signal storing device for storage in the second storing area, and, after completion of reproduction of the head portion of the selected sequential signal, reads out and reproduces the remaining portion of the sequential signal from the second storing area.

Signal reproducing device

A method for reproducing digital information includes the steps of: transferring, with a control circuit, information in a hard disk drive to a memory simultaneously with completion of storage of the information in the hard disk drive from outside of a device body, based on the order or type of information to be reproduced, and reproducing the information from the memory. Furthermore, the method includes the step of providing, with the control circuit, a notification to the user that the transfer of the information to the memory is completed by transmitting a signal indicative thereof.

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Osaka, Japan

Tsutomu Sasaki