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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
May. 30, 2007
Mitsutoshi Shinkai, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayoshi Kawamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsutoshi Shinkai, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayoshi Kawamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reproduction device reproducing data by reading data recorded in a recording medium and buffering the read data to a predetermined buffer. The reproduction device includes: a setting unit setting a countdown time; a determination unit determining whether or not the countdown time is equal to or more than a minimum reproduction delay time; a requirement unit requiring a change of the countdown time when it is determined that the countdown time is less than the minimum reproduction delay time by the determination; and a countdown unit performing countdown from a time before the countdown time earlier than a time at which reproduction of the data is started when it is determined the countdown time is equal to or more than the minimum reproduction delay time by the determination unit.