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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1996
Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Kyoto, JP;
Tadashi Kunihira, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A reproduction apparatus includes: a signal reading section for reading a signal recorded on a recording medium, the signal including a digital signal and an analog signal; a control signal reading section for reading a control signal recorded on the recording medium and including information representing a time mode indicating a run speed of the recording medium; a first determination section for determining the time mode based on an output of the control signal reading section; and a second determination section for determining whether the signal read by the signal reading section is a digital signal or an analog signal after the time mode is determined by the first determination section.