Video recording/reproducing apparatus and method

• US 20050238317A1
• Filed: 07/27/2004
• Published: 10/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Horiguchi, Takeo, Tamura, Masafumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,519,269 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/213
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a receiver which receives a broadcast program, an acquiring unit which acquires program information of the broadcast program, a recording unit which records the broadcast program received by the receiver together with the program information acquired by the acquiring unit, a selector which selects a type of the program, and a searching unit which searches a latest program of the type selected by the selector based on the program information acquired by the acquiring unit and the program information recorded by the recording unit.

Claims

1. A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:

a receiver which receives a broadcast program;

an acquiring unit which acquires program information of the broadcast program;

a recording unit which records the broadcast program received by the receiver together with the program information acquired by the acquiring unit;

a selector which selects a type of the program; and

a searching unit which searches a latest program of the type selected by the selector based on the program information acquired by the acquiring unit and the program information recorded by the recording unit.

2. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring unit acquires the program information via Internet.

3. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring unit receives the program information together with the broadcast program.

4. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an erasing unit which erases a recorded broadcast program having a title which is the same as a title of the searched program.

5. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an erasing unit which erases a recorded broadcast program having a title which is the same as a title of a broadcast program to be recorded by the recording unit.

6. A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:

a receiver which receives a broadcast program;

an acquiring unit which acquires program information of the broadcast program;

a recording unit which records the broadcast program received by the receiver together with the program information acquired by the acquiring unit; and

a display unit which displays the program information recorded by the recording unit and the program information acquired by the acquiring unit together with a recording state or a reproducing state of the program.

7. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the acquiring unit acquires the program information via Internet.

8. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the acquiring unit receives the program information together with the broadcast program.

9. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the recording state includes recorded, recording, and broadcast states.

10. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the reproducing state includes non-watched, watching, and watched states.

11. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 6, which further comprises a selector which selects a type of the program and wherein the display unit displays the program information recorded by the recording unit and the program information acquired by the acquiring unit concerning the selected type in order from new information.

12. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a program selector which selects one of the program information displayed by the display unit; and

a starting unit which starts watching of the program selected by the program selector.

13. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

an erasing unit which erases a recorded broadcast program having a title which is the same as a title of the selected program.

14. The video recording/reproducing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

an erasing unit which erases a recorded broadcast program having a title which is the same as a title of a broadcast program to be recorded by the recording unit.

15. A video recording/reproducing method comprising:

receiving a broadcast program;

acquiring program information of the broadcast program;

recording the received broadcast program together with the acquired program information;

displaying types of the program to allow an user to select one of the types of the program; and

searching a latest program of the selected type based on the recorded program information.

16. The video recording/reproducing method according to claim 15, further comprising:

erasing a recorded broadcast program having a title which is the same as a title of the searched program.

17. The video recording/reproducing method according to claim 15, further comprising:

erasing a recorded broadcast program having a title which is the same as a title of a broadcast program to be recorded.

18. A video recording/reproducing method comprising:

receiving a broadcast program;

acquiring program information of the broadcast program;

recording the received broadcast program together with the acquired program information; and

displaying the recorded program information and the acquired program information together with a recording state or a reproducing state of the program.

19. The video recording/reproducing method according to claim 18, which further comprises:

selecting a type of the program; and

displaying the recorded program information and the acquired program information of the selected category in order from new information.

20. The video recording/reproducing method according to claim 19, further comprising:

selecting one of the displayed program information; and

starting watching of the selected program.

21. The video recording/reproducing method according to claim 20, further comprising:

erasing a recorded broadcast program having a title which is the same as a title of the searched program.

22. The video recording/reproducing method according to claim 18, further comprising:

erasing a recorded broadcast program having a title which is the same as a title of a broadcast program to be recorded.