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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2003
Natsushi Ono, Fukuoka, JP;
Natsushi Ono, Fukuoka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A disc player includes a reproducing parameter setting/extracting unit, a reproducing state monitor, a reproducing parameter storage unit for storing a reproducing position, a number-of-loadings counter, and a controller for controlling them. The controller, during reproducing, saves information related to a reproducing position into the storage unit, and initializes the counter. In turning on the power, the controller refers to the counter, interprets that contents in the storage unit are ineffective when the value of the counter is 0, and performs resume play when the value is not 0. Thus, a disc player for avoiding repeating of lock is provided. A similar effect can be obtained even when an effective flag for indicating whether contents of the reproducing parameter are effective or a just-after-loading flag for indicating whether it is just after reading the reproducing parameter is used instead of the counter.