Radio pre-recording apparatus and its method

• US 20060056543A1
• Filed: 11/03/2004
• Published: 03/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ali SPA (Bessemer Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Ali SPA (Bessemer Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Hsiao, Yung-Sheng
• Application Number:
  US10/979,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20060056543A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/316
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence

Abstract

A radio pre-recording apparatus and its method is proposed. In the prior art, the important portion of the radio program is usually truncated partially during recording because the recording button isn'"'"'t pressed in time. For solving this problem, the radio pre-recording apparatus of the present invention has a radio frequency (RF) receiving unit; an analog/digital (A/D) converter; a buffer unit; a digital/analog (D/A) converter; a storage unit; and a control unit. The radio pre-recording method is provided for the apparatus mentioned above to prevent the important portion of the radio program from being partially truncated and to completely record the radio program.

Claims

1. A method for pre-recoding a radio program, comprising:

setting a pre-recording range of a buffer unit;

using a cyclic recording scheme to record the radio program;

executing a recoding command;

finding data of the radio program recorded in the buffer unit according to an index pointed by a buffer counter of the buffer unit; and

storing the recorded data of the radio program to a predetermined storage unit.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the buffer unit is a static random access memory (SRAM), a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a double data random access memory (DDRAM) or a flash memory.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the buffer counter is a program counter.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the index pointed by the buffer counter is changed dynamically.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the recoding command is issued by pressing a recording button.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data of the radio program is pre-recoded in the buffer unit before the recording command is issued.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the storage unit is a storing medium.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the storing medium is a hard disc, a flash disc or a recordable digital versatile disc (DVD).

9. An apparatus for pre-recoding a radio program, comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) receiving unit to receive radio analog signals;

an analog/digital (A/D) converter electrically connected to the RF receiving unit to convert the radio analog signals to digital data;

a buffer unit electrically connected to the A/D converter to store the digital data;

a digital/analog (D/A) converter electrically connected to the buffer unit to convert the digital data to recover the analog signals;

a storage unit electrically connected to the D/A converter to store the analog signals; and

a control unit electrically connected to the RF receiving unit and the storage unit to confirm a frequency of the RF receiving unit and receive a start signal for recording.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the buffer unit is a SRAM, a DRAM, a DDRAM or a flash memory.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the storage unit is a hard disc, a flash disc or a recordable DVD.