The invention provides a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method, in which moving picture data read out from a recording medium is once stored in a buffer memory, when the stored data is less than a predetermined amount, by reducing an operating speed of an image compression decoder, a transfer rate to read out the data from the buffer memory is reduced, thereby enabling a moving picture to be reproduced slowly and preventing an interruption of images.

The present invention searches the data of the desired time with fewer access frequencies from a recording medium in which information is recorded by the recording system where the signal playback time length is not proportional to the data amount of the relevant signal. The playback apparatus of the present invention comprises a playback section for reading an information unit of audiovisual subject and management information containing playback time information of the information unit and reco...

An object of this invention is to provide a reproducing method and apparatus capable of facilitating a processing operation for permitting a write into a temporal memory means by reading data from a recording medium driven at a variable driving speed, permitting the write into a temporal memory means according to a signal reproduced from the recording medium and if there is a permission for the write in a period generated at a predetermined cycle and allowing the write into the temporal memory m...

A reproducing apparatus including an image support surface such as a rotatable drum upon which an image may be formed and subsequently transferred to a transfer member such as paper is provided with a cleaner housing including a restrictor guide means positioned such that any transfer member remaining tacked to the image support surface as the image support surface enters the cleaner housing will be intercepted before it completely enters the cleaner housing. Preferably the restrictor guide mean...

Reproducing method and apparatus for reproducing highly efficiently encoded data from a record medium composed of spectrum data and scale factor data determines if address of changed highly efficient encoded data and stores it. The method and apparatus determines whether or not the address of highly efficient encoded data whose scale factor data is changed corresponding to the operating mechanism and stores it in a memory store apart from the write address by a predetermined distance. By partly ...

A reproducing apparatus and method, the method comprising the steps of comprising recording a plurality of files and number-of-reproduction-times limitation information thereof, selecting a desired file from the plurality of files stored in the memory, and comparing whether the number-of-reproduction-times limitation information allows for reproduction of the selected file. The method further comprises the steps of counting the reproduced elapsed duration of the selected file and comparing wheth...

A reproducing apparatus for reproducing data from a record medium having a program area and a management area, the program area being used for recording a plurality of files, the management area being used for managing forging prohibition information against a particular file recorded in the program area is disclosed, the apparatus comprising a calculating means for calculating the forging prohibition information managed in the management area of the record medium whenever a file recorded in the...

A machine having first and second carriages mounted for horizontal reciprocation on opposite end portions of a track, with a rotary support on each carriage and an adjustable lever between them for moving the second carriage back and forth in response to reciprocation of the first carriage and in a ratio determined by the adjustment of the lever. A motor rotates the support on the first carriage while correspondingly, and reversibly, rotating the second. The first carriage is spring-urged toward...

In a record player, magnetic reproducing apparatus, magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus, etc. used for reproducing a sound recorded on a disc record or tape record; the reproducing device comprising a stop motion for temporarily stopping automatically or manually the movement of said recording medium in relation to a converter element, a means interlocked with said stop motion for switching the input of an amplifier between a converter element such as a pick-up cartridge or a magnetic h...

A photographic installation for microfilming large documents has two rooms accessible by an operator and interconnected by a door. The camera comprises a document holder, a lens and a photographic plate or film holder and the other the document holder but in accordance with the invention, the functions of these two holders can be reversed so that the installation can be used for re-enlarging microfilmed documents.