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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
May. 15, 2002
Yoshinori Tsuboi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayuki Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An information playback apparatus is disclosed which can play back information with a high degree of accuracy. The information playback apparatus plays back the addresses from a recording medium on which a land address and a groove address are recorded at positions displaced from each other. The information playback apparatus includes an AM detection circuit for detecting an AM read out from the recording medium to produce an AM detection pulse signal, a masking signal production circuit and an AND circuit for removing, when a pickup scans the land, an AM detection pulse produced while the pickup passes the land adjacent an area in which the groove address is recorded but removing, when the pickup scans the groove, an AM detection pulse produced while the pickup passes the groove adjacent an area in which the land address is recorded to produce a synchronism detection signal, and an address data decoding circuit for decoding the information in response to the synchronism detection signal to produce address data.