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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1985
Martinus P Bierhoff, Eindhoven, NL;
Karel M De Decker, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for reproducing information in the form of one or more information blocks in the track of a record carrier, for example a compact-disc digital audio player, is equipped with a memory having n storage locations for storing in each of these storage locations one sequence number corresponding to an information block (if present) whose beginning is situated in a portion of the record carrier corresponding to each storage location, where n<99, and first means for the storage of or containing data relating to the size and the location of the portions on the record carrier, or for the storage of or containing data from which the size and the location of the portions on the record carrier can be derived. Suitably, n is not greater than 10. By means of such an apparatus searching for a following track number that has been selected can be effected more rapidly.