CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA RECEIVING AND RECORDING METHOD, DATA RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD

• US 20100280933A1
• Filed: 07/09/2010
• Published: 11/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TSUTSUI, Shintaro, Katayama, Yasushi, Nagano, Susumu
• Granted Patent: US 8,606,172 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18523 Satellite systems for providing broadcast service to terrestrial stations, i.e. broadcast satellite service arrangements specially adapted for satellite broadcast receiving H04H40/90; picture transmission via satellite H04N1/00103; television transmission via satellite H04N7/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/17 on recording information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/23 using cryptography, e.g. encryption, authentication, key distribution

Abstract

A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. A data receiving apparatus that receives digital audio data and that causes display means to display data associated with the received digital audio data, the data receiving apparatus comprising:

receiving means for receiving digital audio data and for receiving GUI data about the audio data and copyright information about the audio data;

display data generation means for generating display data used to display the GUI data received by the receiving means on the display means;

download means for downloading digital audio data specified from a user on the basis of the display data that has been displayed by the display means;

a digital interface through which a recording medium is connected; and

control means for recording the digital audio data downloaded by the download means together with the copyright information about the digital audio data on the recording medium,

wherein the control means performs control so that at least image data and text data about the digital audio data within the GUI data about the digital audio data received by the receiving means are recorded in an area different from a location at which the digital audio data is recorded on the recording medium.

6. The data receiving apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the receiving means further receives copyright information about image data and text data about the digital audio data, and

wherein the control means performs control so that copy information based on the copyright information is recorded together with respective data, the digital audio data is recorded on a recording medium at synchronous transfer, and the image data and the text data about the digital audio data are recorded at asynchronous transfer.

7. The data receiving apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising billing means for performing a billing process on the basis of a reception of the digital audio data,

wherein the control means performs recording on the recording medium when the billing means is set to a state in which a billing process is performed.

8. A data receiving and recording method of a data receiving apparatus for receiving digital audio data and for causing display means to display data associated with the received digital audio data, the data receiving and recording method comprising:

performing a receiving process of receiving digital audio data, and receiving GUI data about the audio data and copyright information about the audio data;

performing a display data generation process of generating, by the data receiving apparatus, display data used to display the GUI data received in the receiving process on the display means;

performing a download process of downloading digital audio data specified from a user on the basis of display data that has been displayed by the display means; and

performing a control process of recording the digital audio data downloaded by the download means together with the copyright information about the digital audio data on a recording medium connected through a digital interface,

wherein the control process performs control so that at least image data and text data about the digital audio data within the GUI data about the digital audio data received in the receiving process are recorded in an area different from a location at which the digital audio data is recorded on the recording medium.

9. The data receiving and recording method according to claim 8,

wherein the receiving process further receives copyright information about image data and text data about the digital audio data, and

wherein the control process performs control so that copy information based on the copyright information is recorded together with respective data, the digital audio data is recorded on a recording medium at synchronous transfer, and the image data and the text data about the digital audio data are recorded at asynchronous transfer.

10. The data receiving and recording method according to claim 8,

wherein a billing process is performed on the basis of a reception of the digital audio data, and

wherein the control process performs recording on the recording medium when a state is set in which a billing process is performed.