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Audio and video signal recording apparatus and method having a function of informing user when the signal is protected from recording

  • US 6,879,772 B1
  • Filed: 05/19/2000
  • Issued: 04/12/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A recording apparatus comprising:

  • a first detector to detect auxiliary data carried by at least a first video signal which is now being broadcast to decide whether or not the first video signal is protected from recording;

    a recorder to record either the first video signal or a first predetermined information on a storage medium, the first predetermined information suggesting that the first video signal has not been recorded because it is protected from recording;

    a first memory to store the first predetermined information; and

    controlling means for controlling at least the recorder so that the first video signal is recorded on the storage medium when the first video signal is not protected from recording, and for retrieving the first predetermined information from the first memory and controlling the recorder so that the first predetermined information, instead of the first video signal, is recorded on the storage medium when the first video signal is protected from recording.

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