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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
May. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koji Hirosawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 ; G11B 2/702 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 ; G11B 2/702 ;
Abstract
An optical pickup reads a video signal and fade information on “start time” and “speed”, recorded in an optical disc or the like and supplies them to a demultiplexer through a data reproduction circuit. The fade information is supplied to a controller via a fade information extraction circuit. The controller controls cross-fade processing in a cross-fader based on the fade information. An existing video signal or audio signal in the recording medium can be used to repeatedly process the signal for fade-in, fade-out or cross-fade.