DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AN INFORMATION SIGNAL IN A RECORD CARRIER IN WHICH A TEMPORARY STORE IS FORMED ON THE RECORD CARRIER, THE TEMPORARY STORE BEING CONTINUOUSLY OVERWRITTEN WITH THE INFORMATION SIGNAL

• US 6,580,871 B1
• Filed: 04/26/2001
• Issued: 06/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Adiona IP, LLC (Endpoint IP LLC)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Proidl, Adolf
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, THAI Q
• Application Number:
  US09/202,021
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: H04/N.576, H04/N.592, H04/N.979, H04/N.5781, H04/N.5783, 386/4, 386/45, 386/40, 386/52-64, 386/124, 386/125, 386/126, 386/95, 360/32, 360/51, 369/32.01, 369/124.01, 369/124.07, 369/124.08
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/02 Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/216 Rewritable discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2525 Magneto-optical [MO] discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2529 Mini-discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2575 DVD-RAMs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/455 said record carriers being in one device and being used as primary and secondary/backup media, e.g. HDD-DVD combo device, or as source and target media, e.g. PC and portable player
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/61 wherein solid state memory is used for storing A/V content storing computer data in solid state memories G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/028 with computer assistance
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• 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 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded

Abstract

A device for recording an information signal in a record carrier without loss of part of an information signal at the beginning of a recording, includes a processing circuit for processing an information signal and for supplying a recording information signal, an input device for supplying activation information and wait information, and an operating device for recording, after the activation information, a recording information signal in the record carrier and, after the wait information, for consecutively overwriting storage in a temporary store. An area of the record carrier is selected as the temporary store, and the operating device starts consecutively overwriting storage of a recording information signal in the selected temporary store after the wait information, and stops a consecutively overwriting storage after the activation information.

Claims

1. A device for recording an information signal supplied by a signal source in a record carrier, comprising:

processing means for processing an information signal and for supplying a recording information signal;

input means for supplying an activation information and a wait information; and

operating means, cooperating with at least a part of the processing means and with the input means, for recording an information signal in the record carrier depending on the occurrence of activation information and for consecutively overwriting storage of a recording information signal in a temporary store at least depending on the occurrence of wait information, wherein;

the operating means arbitrarily assigns an area of the record carrier as the temporary store;

the operating means starts a consecutively overwriting storage of the recording information signal in the temporary store depending on the occurrence of the wait information, and stops the consecutively overwriting storage of the recording information signal in the temporary store depending on the occurrence of the activation information;

and wherein the recording information signal, formed by the processing means and recorded by the operating means, includes information signal packets and address signal packet, the information signal packets corresponding to the information signals, and the address signal packets including address information, whereby, during a reproduction of information signal packets recorded in the temporary store and information signal packets recorded in further areas of the record carrier, the time sequence of the reproduced information signal packets is defined for the purpose of linking the information signal packets.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating means generates and records at least one item of linkage address information depending on the occurrence of the activation information following the wait information, said at least one item of linkage address information enabling, during reproduction of information signal packets recorded in the record carrier, information signal packets reproduced from the temporary store and further reproduced information signal packets to be linked together in their appropriate time sequence, and enabling the first information signal packet recorded in the record carrier, depending on the occurrence of the activation information, to be linked, during reproduction, after the last information signal packet recorded in the temporary store.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the operating means generates and records at least one item of linkage address information, said at least one item of linkage address information enabling, during reproduction, an information signal packet, recorded in the temporary store, to be linked after the information signal packet recorded in the record carrier directly before the occurrence of the wait information.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the operating means generates and records at least one item of linkage address information, said at least one item of linkage address information enabling, during reproduction, an information signal packet recorded in the temporary store and arranged as the next information signal packet to be overwritten upon termination of the consecutively overwriting storage in the temporary store, to be linked after the information signal packet recorded in the record carrier directly before the occurrence of the wait information.

5. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the operating means generates and records at least one item of linkage address information, said at least one item of linkage address information enabling, during reproduction, an information signal packet recorded in the temporary store and arranged at a given distance before the last information signal packet recorded upon termination of the consecutively overwriting storage in the temporary store, to be linked after the information signal packet recorded in the record carrier directly before the occurrence of the wait information.

6. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein operating means overwrites address information recorded in the record carrier with linkage address information.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating means selects, as the temporary store, an area of the record carrier directly adjoining the area of the record carrier in which an information signal packet has been recorded immediately before the occurrence of the wait information.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the record carrier comprises a random-access or quasi random access memory.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the record carrier is built in the device.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device further comprises a holder means for removably holding the record carrier.

11. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the record carrier comprises a solid-state memory accommodated in a protective carrier.

12. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the record carrier comprises an optically scanned disc.

13. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the record carrier comprises a magnetically scanned disc.

14. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the record carrier comprises a magnetic-tape cassette accommodating a magnetic tape.

15. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device comprises a video recorder for recording video signals and audio signals.

16. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device comprises a dictation device for recording speech signals, said dictation device being speech controlled whereby said dictation device is activatable by speech signals to be recorded.

17. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device comprises a data storage device for recording digital data supplied by a signal source.

18. A method of recording an information signal in a record carrier, without loss of part of an information signal at the beginning of a recording, the method comprising the steps:

processing an information signal and supplying a recording information signal;

generating an activation information and a wait information;

recording the recording information signal depending on the occurrence of the activation information; and

storing, in a consecutively overwriting fashion, the recording information signal in a temporary store at least depending on the occurrence of the wait information, wherein said method further comprises the steps;

selecting an arbitrarily assignable area of the record carrier as the temporary store;

starting a consecutively overwriting storage of the recording information signal in the temporary store depending on the occurrence of the wait information; and

stopping the consecutively overwriting storage of the recording information signal in the temporary store depending on the occurrence of the activation information, and wherein the recording information signal includes information signal packets and address signal packets, the information signal packets corresponding to the information signals, and the address signal packets including address information, whereby, during a reproduction of information signal packets recorded in the temporary store and information signal packets recorded in further areas of the record carrier, the time sequence of the reproduced information signal packets is defined for the purpose of linking the information signal packets.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein said method further comprises generating and recording at least one item of linkage address information depending on the occurrence of the activation information following the wait information, said at least one item of linkage address information enabling, during reproduction of information signal packets recorded in the record carrier, information signal packets reproduced from the temporary store and further reproduced information signal packets to be linked together in their appropriate time sequence, and enabling also the first information signal packet recorded in the record carrier depending on the occurrence of activation information to be linked, during reproduction, after the last information signal packet recorded in the temporary store.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, wherein the method further comprises generating and recording at least one item of linkage address information, said at least one item of linkage address information enabling, during reproduction, an information signal packet recorded in the temporary store to be linked after the information signal packet recorded in the record carrier directly before the occurrence of the wait information.

21. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the method further comprises generating and recording at least one item of linkage address information, said at least one item of linkage address information enabling, during reproduction, an information signal packet recorded in the temporary store and arranged as the next information signal packet to be overwritten upon termination of the consecutively overwriting storage in the temporary store, to be linked after the information signal packet recorded in the record carrier directly before the occurrence of the wait information.

22. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the method further comprises generating and recording at least one item of linkage address information, said at least one item of linkage address information enabling, during reproduction, an information signal packet recorded in the temporary store and arranged at a given distance before the last information signal packet recorded upon termination of the consecutively overwriting storage in the temporary store, to be linked after the information signal packet recorded in the record carrier directly before the occurrence of the wait information.

23. The method as claimed in claim 19, wherein address information recorded in the record carrier is overwritten with linkage address information.

24. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the area of the record carrier selected as the temporary store directly adjoins the area of the record carrier in which an information signal packet has been recorded immediately before the occurrence of the wait information.

25. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the record carrier comprises a random-access or quasi random access memory for recording the recording information signal.