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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1995
Hisatoshi Baba, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information recording/reproducing apparatus for executing recording of information on and/or reproduction of information from a recording medium, upon reception of an instruction from a host computer. The apparatus includes (1) a single calculation device for, alternatively and time-divisionally, performing (i) a system processing for handling the instruction from the host computer and (ii) a seek processing for moving an information reproduction head to a target track, and (2) a counter, incorporated into the calculation device. In the seek processing, the number of tracks which the head has traversed is counted and, in the system processing, the number of tracks thus counted is monitored and the information to be reproduced by the head is prepared based on the monitored number of tracks.