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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:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shinichi Arai, Fukushima, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 48 ; 369 50 ; 369 58 ;
Abstract
An optical disc device in which a reproduction speed of audio information recorded in a track (or disc) of a mini-disc (MD) etc. can be easily changed. Reproduction speed information is recorded in a track name area (or disc name area) of UTOC area of an MD etc. At the time of reproduction, the audio information is reproduced at a speed according to this reproduction speed information code. As a result, it is possible to reproduce audio information at a speed according to the reproduction speed information code, for each track (or each disc).