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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2005
Applicant:
Yasuharu Yamauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuharu Yamauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A reproduction apparatus capable of saving power consumption, wherein starting time data of a hard disk drive (HDD), is detected every time the HDD starts and, based on threshold value data generated by using a value obtained by adding standard deviation data to average value data of the starting time data, a timing of activating the HDD and starting an operation of writing song data read from the HDD to an SDRAM is determined.