Playback apparatus and method of timely playing back a recorded program

• US 20020076203A1
• Filed: 03/15/2001
• Published: 06/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Masaru
• Application Number:
  US09/808,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20020076203A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/83
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

An information recording/playback apparatus of this invention records a plurality of desired programs on a recording medium, reserves in advance the playback order of the plurality of recorded programs, creates a user original program guide on the basis of the reserved playback order, and plays back the plurality of recorded programs in an order based on the program guide.

Claims

1. A playback apparatus comprising:

reservation controller for recording a plurality of desired programs on a recording medium so as to reserve in advance a playback order of the plurality of recorded programs;

creator for creating a user original program guide on the basis of the playback order reserved by said reservation controller; and

reproducer for playing back the plurality of recorded programs in an order based on the program guide.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, comprising playback order controller for automatically controlling the playback order of the plurality of recorded programs on the basis of at least one of the playback order reserved by said reservation controller and a log of executed playback.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, comprising

playback mode selector for selecting a manual playback mode or automatic playback mode in correspondence with mode selection operation,

playback start instructor for instructing playback start in correspondence with playback start operation,

setter for setting a playback start time in correspondence with playback start time input operation, and

playback controller for starting playback of the plurality of recorded programs in the order based on the program guide when the manual playback mode is selected by said selector and the playback start is instructed by said playback start instructor, and starting playback of the plurality of recorded programs in the order based on the program guide when the automatic playback mode is selected by said selector and the playback start time set by said setter comes.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, comprising display for displaying the program guide in correspondence with program guide display operation.

5. A playback apparatus comprising:

reservation controller for reserving recording of desired programs and a playback order of the recorded programs; and

reproducer for playing back the recorded programs in the playback order reserved by said reservation controller.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, comprising playback order controller for automatically controlling the playback order of the recorded programs on the basis of at least one of the playback order reserved by said reservation controller and a log of executed playback.

7. An apparatus according to claim 5, comprising

playback mode selector for selecting a manual playback mode or automatic playback mode in correspondence with mode selection operation,

playback start instructor for instructing playback start in correspondence with playback start operation,

setter means for setting a playback start time in correspondence with playback start time input operation, and

playback controller for starting playback of the recorded programs in the playback order reserved by said reservation controller when the manual playback mode is selected by said selector and the playback start is instructed by said playback start instructor, and starting playback of the recorded programs in the playback order reserved by said reservation controller when the automatic playback mode is selected by said selector and the playback start time set by said setter comes.

8. An apparatus according to claim 5, comprising

playback order controller for automatically controlling the playback order of the plurality of recorded programs on the basis of at least one of the playback order reserved by said reservation controller and a log of executed playback,

playback mode selector for selecting a manual playback mode or automatic playback mode in correspondence with mode selection operation,

playback start instructor for instructing playback start in correspondence with playback start operation,

setter for setting a playback start time in correspondence with playback start time input operation, and

playback controller for starting playback of the plurality of recorded programs in the playback order reserved by said reservation controller when the manual playback mode is selected by said selector and the playback start is instructed by said playback start instructor, and starting playback of the plurality of recorded programs in the playback order reserved by said reservation controller when the automatic playback mode is selected by said selector and the playback start time set by said setter means comes.

9. A playback apparatus comprising:

reserve means for recording a plurality of desired programs on a recording medium and reserving in advance a playback order of the plurality of recorded programs;

creation means for creating a linked program guide which links a user original program guide based on the playback order reserved by said reserve means with a program guide corresponding to broadcast corresponding to current broadcast; and

playback means for playing back the plurality of recorded programs in an order based on the linked program guide.

10. An apparatus according to claim 9, comprising display means for displaying the linked program guide in correspondence with program guide display operation.

11. A playback method comprising:

the first step of reserving in advance a playback order of a plurality of recorded programs;

the second step of creating a user original program guide on the basis of the playback order reserved in the first step; and

the third step of playing back the plurality of recorded programs in an order based on the program guide created in the second step.

12. A method according to claim 11, comprising the step of controlling the playback order of the plurality of recorded programs on the basis of at least one of the playback order reserved in the first step and a log of executed playback.

13. A method according to claim 11, comprising the steps of

starting playback of the plurality of recorded programs in the order based on the program guide created in the second step when a manual playback mode is selected and playback start is instructed, and

starting playback of the plurality of recorded programs in the order based on the program guide created in the second step when an automatic playback mode is selected and a preset playback start time comes.

14. A method according to claim 11, comprising the step of displaying the program guide in correspondence with program guide display operation.

16. A method according to claim 15, comprising the step of controlling the playback order of the recorded programs on the basis of at least one of the playback order reserved in the first step and a log of executed playback.

17. A method according to claim 15, comprising the steps of

starting playback of the recorded programs on the basis of the playback order reserved in the first step when a manual playback mode is selected and playback start is instructed, and

starting playback of the recorded programs on the basis of the playback order reserved in the first step when an automatic playback mode is selected and a preset playback start time comes.

18. A method according to claim 15, comprising the steps of

controlling the playback order of the recorded programs on the basis of at least one of the playback order reserved in the first step and a log of executed playback,

starting playback of the recorded programs on the basis of the playback order reserved in the first step when a manual playback mode is selected and playback start is instructed, and

starting playback of the recorded programs on the basis of the playback order reserved in the first step when an automatic playback mode is selected and a preset playback start time comes.

20. A method according to claim 19, comprising the step of displaying the linked program guide in correspondence with program guide display operation.

15. A playback method comprising:

the first step of reserving recording of desired programs and a playback order of the recorded programs; and

the second step of playing back the recorded programs in the playback order reserved in the first step.

19. A playback method comprising:

the first step of reserving in advance a playback order of a plurality of recorded programs;

the second step of creating a linked program guide which links a user original program guide based on the playback order reserved in the first step with a program guide corresponding to broadcast corresponding to current broadcast; and

the third step of playing back the plurality of recorded programs in an order based on the linked program guide created in the second step.