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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 27, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 54 ; 369 48 ; 369 60 ; 386109 ; 386126 ; 386 95 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for reproducing disc data of a compressed image type or another type includes a decompression circuit to decompress the disc data read from the disc in accordance with a reference clock signal. When the disc data is not image type data, the frequency of the reference clock is lowered to reduce power consumption.