Recorder

• US 20050232592A1
• Filed: 04/19/2005
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kimoto, Yousuke, Kake, Tomokazu
• Granted Patent: US 7,805,055 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/297
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

In order to record a program provided by a program broadcasting device, a recorder (5) that receives program identifying information provided by a program information providing device to record the program includes: a program identifying information detector (10) for detecting the program identifying information at least at one timing of start, duration, and end of the broadcasted program; and a recording operation controller (20) for controlling recording operation based on a detection result of the program identifying information detector (10). The recording operation controller (20) includes: a recording start/end determining section (21) for staring and/or ending the recording operation based on the detected program identifying information; and a recorded program determining section (22) for determining the program being recorded based on the program identifying information detected while the program is recorded.

Claims

1. A recorder that receives a program broadcasted by a program broadcasting device for broadcasting program in accordance with a predetermined time schedule and program identifying information provided by a program identifying information providing device for providing information to identify the program broadcasted by the program broadcasting device and records the program based on the program identifying information, the recorder comprising:

a program identifying information detector for detecting the program identifying information at least at one timing of start, duration, and end of the program broadcasted by the program broadcasting device; and

a recording operation controller for controlling recording operation based on a detection result of the program identifying information detector,

the recording operation controller comprising;

a recording start/end determining section for starting the recording operation and/or ending the recording operation based on the detection result of the program identifying information detector; and

a recorded program determining section for determining the program currently being recorded based on the detection result of the program identifying information detector while the program is recorded.

2. The recorder according to claim 1, wherein

the program identifying information includes a program identifier showing a program broadcasted by the program broadcasting device, and status information showing that the program is being broadcasted while broadcasting the program,

the recording start/end determining section determines starting and/or ending of the recording operation based on the program identifier detected by the program identifying information detector, and

the recorded program determining section determines the program to be recorded based on the status information detected by the program identifying information detector.

3. The recorder according to claim 2, wherein

the recording operation controller includes a recording interrupting section for interrupting the recording operation when the recorded program determining section determines that the detected status information has been changed while the program is recorded.

4. The recorder according to claim 3, wherein

the recording operation controller includes a recording restarting section for restarting the recording operation when the recorded program determining section determines that the detected status information returns to the status information of the program being recorded after the recording operation is interrupted by the recording interrupting section.

5. The recorder according to claim 1, further comprising:

a timer for detecting time; and

a timer-recording unit for setting broadcast time of a desired program in advance and operating the recording operation controller to start the recording operation when the time detected by the timer is equal to the broadcast time of the program,

wherein the recording operation controller operates the program identifying information detector to start detecting the program identifying information when the time detected by the timer is equal to a recording start time set by the timer-recording unit, the recording operation-controller including a recording restraining section for restraining starting recording of the program when the detection result differs from the program identifier of the program to be recorded.

6. The recorder according to claim 5, wherein

the program identifying information includes program start/end time information indicating the start time and/or end time of the program regarding the program identifier,

the program identifying information detector includes a start/end time acquirer for acquiring the program start/end time information, and

the recording operation controller includes a set time updating section for updating the time set at the timer-recording unit based on the program start/end time information acquired by the start/end time acquirer.