Rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus capable of performing special reproduction

Claim 1

A reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals from a rotary recording medium, said rotary recording medium having an information signal recorded on a spiral track and at least one reference signal recorded at a predetermined position on each track turn of said rotary recording medium, said reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing transducer means comprising a reproducing element for reproducing signals from tracks on said rotary recording medium and kicking means for kicking said reproducing element to an adjacent track in response to a kick pulse; timing pulse generating means for generating timing pulses according to the reproduced reference signal, a number of the generated timing pulses being equal to a maximum number of kicking positions for one track turn of said rotary recording medium; mode setting means for manually setting an operating mode of said reproducing apparatus to one of special reproduction modes; first judging means for judging the mode of said reproducing apparatus according to the mode set by said mode setting means; second judging means coupled to said timing pulse generating means and said first judging means, for judging whether a kick pulse is to be generated within an interval in correspondence with a subsequent timing pulse and for producing pulse signals according to a judgment result obtained during an interval in correspondence with a preceding timing pulse, with respect to each of said timing pulses from said timing pulse generating means according to the judgment result from said first judging means; and kick pulse generating means for generating kick pulses in accordance with the pulse signals supplied from said second judging means, said kick pulses being supplied to said reproducing transducer to kick said reproducing element according to the set special reproduction mode of said reproducing apparatus.