Recording equipment and recording method
First Claim
1. Recording equipment for recording programs containing video, comprising:
- an input terminal to which programs are provided;
an information acquirer which acquires information relating to the programs that are received at the input terminal;
a rate converter which converts a bit rate of the program provided;
a recorder and reproducer which records and reproduces the program for which the bit rate has been converted;
a memory which stores the information relating to the programs that were viewed by the user, among the programs that have been provided; and
a controller which controls the bit rate in the rate converter based on the information stored in the memory and the information acquired by the information acquirer.
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Abstract
If programs are always recorded according to a decision that is made-based on the user preferences survey results or specific categories and user'"'"'s recording instruction, the user will lose the opportunity to view programs of categories other than the user preferences. Further, if the entire viewable broadcast is recorded without any selection, a problem arises that there are required greatly increased storage capacity and greatly increased capacity of processing the bit rate required for the recording. According to the present invention, a rate converter is provided for changing a bit rate for each channel, the history of programs that have been viewed by the user is recorded as the usage history, the usage tendency of the user is extracted from the usage history with an agent, a decision is made as to whether the program selected for each channel matches the usage tendency of the user, and in case of matching the program is recorded on the recording medium without varying a bit rate allowing the high-quality video to be maintained, whereas when the selected program does not match the usage tendency of the user, the program is recorded on the recording medium upon conversion to a lower bit rate.
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15 Claims
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1. Recording equipment for recording programs containing video, comprising:
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an input terminal to which programs are provided;
an information acquirer which acquires information relating to the programs that are received at the input terminal;
a rate converter which converts a bit rate of the program provided;
a recorder and reproducer which records and reproduces the program for which the bit rate has been converted;
a memory which stores the information relating to the programs that were viewed by the user, among the programs that have been provided; and
a controller which controls the bit rate in the rate converter based on the information stored in the memory and the information acquired by the information acquirer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A recording method for recording a plurality of programs comprising:
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storing past usage information;
inputting a plurality of programs;
acquiring program information for the programs which are input;
comparing the acquired program information and stored usage information;
determining the compressing rate of recorded video signals based on the comparison; and
recording the video signals based on the determined compression rate. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. Recording equipment for recording a plurality of input programs, the equipment comprising:
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an input terminal which accepts input of a plurality of programs having bit rates;
a rate converter which converts the bit rate of the received program;
a recorder and reproducer which records and reproduces the program for which the bit rate has been converted by the rate converter based on a usage tendency of the user; and
a program information creator which creates a program guide of programs recorded by the recorder and reproducer based on the usage tendency of the user. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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