Information recording and playback apparatus

• US 20040133916A1
• Filed: 11/26/2003
• Published: 07/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Suda, Hajime
• Application Number:
  US10/721,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20040133916A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/87
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

A mail containing recording conditions is transmitted by a portable terminal, and a recording and playback apparatus receives the mail from a server. Thereby, a recording programming, that is, a recording start and recording end of information, can be set in the recording and playback apparatus, even when the recording programming cannot be set on the recording and playback apparatus by using an apparatus main body or a remote control device.

Claims

1. An information recording and playback apparatus which records or plays back information, comprising:

receive means for receiving a recording programming mail from the outside, the recording programming mail containing programming contents; and

entering means for entering a recording programming in accordance with the programming contents obtained by the receive means.

2. An information recording and playback apparatus according to claim 1,

the receive means receiving the recording programming mail through a network.

3. An information recording and playback apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a notifying mechanism which notifies the outside of contents of the recording programming mail captured by the receive means.

4. An information recording and playback apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a notifying mechanism which notifies the outside of contents of the recording programming mail received by the receive means.

5. An information recording and playback apparatus comprising:

an information recording and playback section which records information in a recording medium, and plays back information prerecorded in a recording medium;

a timer section which operates the information recording and playback section at a predetermined operation starting time, and stops the information recording and playback section at a predetermined operation ending time;

a memory section which holds operation information of the timer section;

a communications control section which inputs and sets at least the operation starting time and the operation ending time in the timer section from the outside; and

entering means for entering, in the memory section, a recording programming including at least the operation starting time and the operation ending time obtained through the communications control section.

6. An information recording and playback apparatus according to claim 5,

the communications control section receiving an instruction supplied in the form of a mail from the outside, and acquiring information corresponding to the operation starting time and the operation ending time of the timer section.

7. An information recording and playback apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a notifying mechanism which notifies the outside of contents of the mail captured by the communications control section.

8. An information recording and playback apparatus according to claim 6,

the communications control section capturing the mail through a network.

9. An information recording and playback apparatus according to claim 7,

the communications control section capturing the mail through a network.

10. A method of controlling an information recording and playback apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a mail from outside;

judging whether the received mail contains recording control information including at least an operation starting time and an operation ending time;

judging whether a recording programming is acceptable with the operating starting time and the operating ending time included in the mail judged to be a mail containing the recording control information; and

storing, in a memory section, the operation starting time and the operation ending time included in the recording control information contained in the mail whose recording programming has been judged acceptable, the operation starting time and the operation ending time serving as information used for controlling a timer section, the timer section operating and stopping an information recording and playback section at the operation starting time and the operation ending time, respectively.

11. A method according to claim 10, further comprising:

notifying that the recording programming corresponding to the recording control information contained in the mail is impossible, if the recording programming is impossible.