Recording apparatus with a receiving function and recording apparatus

• US 6,188,662 B1
• Filed: 12/04/1998
• Issued: 02/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Takashi, Nagashima, Hideki, Maeda, Yasuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Huber, Paul W.
• Application Number:
  US09/206,076
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• Field of Search: 369/30, 369/32, 369/33, 369/47, 369/48, 369/60.01, 369/83, 360/13, 360/27, 360/31, 386/95, 386/52
• US Class Current: 369/83
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 11/10595 Control of operating function
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2529 Mini-discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/65 wherein solid state memory is used for storing indexing information or metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/913 Digital audio tape [DAT] format
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• 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: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID

Abstract

There is provided a recording apparatus to perform the recording operation to a recording medium by receiving audio information as the main data and character information as subdata transmitted from a broadcasting station in view of extracting the partitioning code formed of the predetermined code included in the subdata, storing in memory an address recorded in a recording medium when the partitioning code is extracted, automatically performing the editing process based on the address stored in the memory when the audio information as the main data and character information as the subdata are recorded to the recording mediums and easily performing the searching operation during the reproducing operation.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus with a receiving function comprising:

receiving means for receiving main data and subdata including a partitioning code to be transmitted from a broadcasting station;

partitioning code extracting means for extracting said partitioning code from the subdata received by said receiving means;

recording means for recording to a recording medium the main data and subdata, from which said partitioning code is removed, received by said receiving means;

storing means for storing the recording position under the recording operation on said recording medium when said partitioning code is extracted by said partitioning code extracting means; and

editing means for performing the divided edition of the main data on the basis of the recording position stored in said storing means after the main data and the subdata, from which said partitioning code is removed, received by said receiving means are recorded to said recording medium.

2. A recording apparatus with a receiving function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said recording medium is provided with a main data area to record said main data and a management area to record the management information assuring correspondence between information unit recorded in said main data area and the recording position and said editing means edits the management information assuring correspondence between information unit recorded in said management area and the recording position on the basis of the recording position stored in said storing means.

3. A recording apparatus with a receiving function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said main data is audio data and said subdata is character information corresponding to said main data.

4. A recording apparatus with a receiving function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said partitioning code is formed of a particular character string or particular characters.

5. A recording apparatus with a receiving function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said editing means for dividing and editing the main data based on the recording position stored in said storing means conducts the dividing process at the position going back the predetermined width from the recording position stored in said storing means.

6. A recording apparatus for receiving main data and subdata including the partitioning code transmitted from a broadcasting station and recording said received main data and subdata to a recording medium providing main data area for recording main data, subdata area for recording subdata, a first management area for management of main data recorded to main data area and a second management area for management of subdata recorded to subdata area, comprising:

partitioning code extracting means for extracting said partitioning code from said received subdata;

recording means for recording said received main data to said main data area and also recording said subdata from which said partitioning code is removed to said subdata area;

storing means for storing the recording position under the recording operation to the main data area of said recording medium when said partitioning code is extracted by said partitioning code extracting means; and

editing means for editing said first management area so that main data is divided and edited on the basis of the recording position stored in said storing means after the received main data and subdata, from which said partitioning code is removed, are recorded to said recording medium.

7. A recording apparatus as claim in claim 6, wherein said recording medium is provided with main data area to record said main data and management area to record management information giving correspondence between information unit and recording position recorded in said main data area, and said editing means edits management information giving correspondence between information unit and recording position recorded in said management area based on the recording position stored in said storing means.

8. A recording apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein said main data is audio information and said subdata is character information corresponding to said main data.

9. A recording apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein said partitioning code is formed of a particular character string or particular characters.

10. A recording apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein said editing means to divide and edit main data based on the recording position stored in said storing means performs the dividing process at the position going back the predetermined width from the recording position stored in said storing means.