Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

• US 20070058930A1
• Filed: 08/24/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iwamoto, Toru
• Application Number:
  US11/508,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20070058930A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/297
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4263 involving specific tuning arrangements, e.g. two tuners
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus for controlling an operation that is performed to record a broadcast received by a tuner onto a recording medium, the information processing apparatus including: storage means configured to store a list of recording candidate broadcasts, which are to be recorded onto the recording medium; decision means that, at a recording start time for a particular recording candidate broadcast, which is one of the recording candidate broadcasts in the list, judges whether a tuner is available for recording the particular recording candidate broadcast, and decides whether or not to record the particular recording candidate broadcast; and recording control means configured to record the particular recording candidate broadcast onto the recording medium when a decision is made to record the particular recording candidate broadcast.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus for controlling an operation that is performed to record a broadcast received by a tuner onto a recording medium, the information processing apparatus comprising:

storage means configured to store a list of recording candidate broadcasts, which are to be recorded onto the recording medium;

decision means that, at a recording start time for a particular recording candidate broadcast, which is one of the recording candidate broadcasts in the list, judges whether a tuner is available for recording the particular recording candidate broadcast, and decides whether or not to record the particular recording candidate broadcast; and

recording control means configured to record the particular recording candidate broadcast onto the recording medium when a decision is made to record the particular recording candidate broadcast.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when at least part of the recording time slots of recording candidate broadcasts in the list clashes with the recording time slot of the particular recording candidate broadcast, the decision means compares the number of tuners available for recording against the number of clashing recording candidate broadcasts, and judges whether a tuner is available for recording the particular recording candidate broadcast.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the list contains at least the priorities of the recording candidate broadcasts; and

when the number of clashing recording candidate broadcasts is larger than the number of tuners available for recording, the decision means further judges the priority of the particular recording candidate broadcast and decides whether or not to record the particular recording candidate broadcast.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

communication means configured to communicate with an apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus in compliance with the DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) guideline.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquisition means configured to acquire the number of tuners connected to the information processing apparatus; and

registration control means configured to control a registration process that is performed to register a new recording candidate broadcast in the list,

wherein, when at least part of the recording time slot of the new recording candidate broadcast clashes with the recording time slots of the recording candidate broadcasts in the list and the number of clashing recording candidate broadcasts is larger than the number of tuners connected to the information processing apparatus, the registration control means issues a warning and registers the new recording candidate broadcast in the list.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquisition means configured to acquire the number of tuners connected to the information processing apparatus; and

registration control means configured to control a registration process that is performed to register a new recording candidate broadcast in the list,

wherein, when at least part of the recording time slot of the new recording candidate broadcast clashes with the recording time slots of the recording candidate broadcasts in the list and the number of clashing recording candidate broadcasts is larger than the number of tuners connected to the information processing apparatus, the registration control means does not register the new recording candidate broadcast in the list.

7. An information processing method for use-in an information processing apparatus for controlling an operation that is performed to record a broadcast received by a tuner onto a recording medium, the information processing method comprising the steps of:

judging, at a recording start time for a particular recording candidate broadcast, which is one of recording candidate broadcasts in a list that are to be recorded onto the recording medium, whether a tuner is available for recording the particular recording candidate broadcast, and deciding whether or not to record the particular recording candidate broadcast; and

recording the particular recording candidate broadcast onto the recording medium when a decision is made to record the particular recording candidate broadcast.

8. A program for causing a computer to control an operation that is performed to record a broadcast received by a tuner onto a recording medium, the program comprising the steps of:

judging, at a recording start time for a particular recording candidate broadcast, which is one of recording candidate broadcasts in a list that are to be recorded onto the recording medium, whether a tuner is available for recording the particular recording candidate broadcast, and deciding whether or not to record the particular recording candidate broadcast; and

recording the particular recording candidate broadcast onto the recording medium when a decision is made to record the particular recording candidate broadcast.

9. An information processing apparatus for controlling an operation that is performed to record a broadcast received by a tuner onto a recording medium, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a storage section configured to store a list of recording candidate broadcasts, which are to be recorded onto the recording medium;

a decision section that, at a recording start time for a particular recording candidate broadcast, which is one of the recording candidate broadcasts in the list, judges whether a tuner is available for recording the particular recording candidate broadcast, and decides whether or not to record the particular recording candidate broadcast; and

a recording control section configured to record the particular recording candidate broadcast onto the recording medium when a decision is made to record the particular recording candidate broadcast.