Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Yoshikazu Yamada

Shinzo Matsui

Yoshiyuki Nada

Ryoichi Sawaki

Kenji Kishi

Hiroo Hosono

A reading section optically reads a code from a recording medium having a portion on which multimedia information including at least one of audio information, video information, and digital code data is recorded as an optically readable code. A plurality of processing sections sequentially process the code read by the reading section and output the processed code as the original multimedia information. An operation switch designates the start of reading of the code. A control section causes one or a plurality of the plurality of processing sections to terminate a processing operation for a code which has been read by the time the operation switch is operated, and executes processing for data of the processed code in correspondence with another processing section on a subsequent stage, on the basis of the operation of the operation switch after the start of reading is designated by the operation switch.

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Hino, Japan

Yoshikazu Yamada