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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2000
Morihiro Murata, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
An optical disk recording apparatus includes an input device that receives an input digital audio signal sampled by a predetermined sampling rate, an external reference clock pulse generator that reproduces a first reference clock pulse on the basis of the input digital audio signal, an internal reference clock pulse generator that generates a second reference clock pulse, a buffer memory that stores the input digital audio signal therein in synchronism with the first reference clock pulses, and that reads out a stored input digital audio signal therefrom in shynchronism with the second reference clock pulses, an operator operable by a user to give an instruction as to whether an inter-music-piece blank signal is to be recorded or not, the inter-music piece blank signal being capable of recording onto an optical disk before recording of the input digital audio signal read from the buffer memory, and a controller that, on the basis of the instruction from the operator, when the inter-music piece blank signal is to be recorded, makes to reduce a time interval from start of storing of the digital audio signals into the buffer memory to a start of recording of the digital audio signals onto the optical disk as compared to when the blank signal is not to be recorded.