Data recording and reproducing apparatus

• US 7,027,710 B2
• Filed: 09/03/1997
• Issued: 04/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Koike, Shigeaki, Iwasaki, Yasuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Boccio, Vincent F.
• Application Number:
  US08/923,369
• Publication Number:
  US 20020191955A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,142 Days
• Field of Search: 386/4, 386/6, 386/52, 386/66, 386/68, 386 81- 82, 386125-126, 360/13, 360/15, 369/83, 345/328
• US Class Current: 386/279
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/216 Rewritable discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/218 Write-once discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2525 Magneto-optical [MO] discs
• 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 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/02 Editing, e.g. varying the order of information signals recorded on, or reproduced from, record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals

Abstract

A data recording and reproducing apparatus which can easily perform the editing of audio and/or visual data even at the camera site. In the data recording and reproducing apparatus, a VTR portion and an MO disc portion are integrally constituted. Audio and/or visual data input from an outside apparatus is recorded on a video tape by the VTR portion, and further reproduced from the video tape and transferred to the MO disc device at a high speed and recorded. The user of the data recording and reproducing apparatus quickly finds the desired video image by actively utilizing the random access property of the MO disc device and sequentially inputs the same to the VTR device, records the same on the video tape, and performs the editing of the audio and/or visual data.

Claims

1. A data recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:

a disc recording and reproducing means;

a tape recording and reproducing means;

a data transfer means;

a first input/output means, and

a second input/output means,

said disc recording and reproducing means, said tape recording and reproducing means, said data transfer means, said first input/output means, and said second input/output means being integrally assembled;

said disc recording and reproducing means recording audio-visual data, which comprises audio and visual data, audio data or visual data, transferred from said data transfer means in a disc recording medium to which random access is possible and reproduces said audio-visual data from said disc recording medium and outputs the same to said data transfer means;

said tape recording and reproducing means recording said audio-visual data transferred from said data transfer means in said tape recording medium and reproduces said audio-visual data from said tape recording medium and outputs the same to said data transfer means;

said data transfer means transferring said audio-visual data among any of the elements selected from among said disc recording and reproducing means, said tape recording and reproducing means, said first input/output means, and said second input/output means;

said first input/output means receiving an analog audio-visual signal from an outside apparatus, converting the same to audio-visual data of a digital format, and outputting the same to said data transfer means and converting said audio-visual data transferred from said data transfer means to an audio-visual signal of the analog format and outputs the same to an outside apparatus, wherein said first input/output means has a digital/analog conversion means for converting said audio-visual data of a digital format from said data transfer means to an audio-visual signal of an analog format and outputting the same to an outside apparatus and an analog/digital conversion means for converting an audio-visual signal of an analog format from an outside apparatus to audio-visual data of a digital format and outputting the same to said data transfer means; and

said second input/output means receiving audio-visual data from a communication line connected to an outside apparatus and outputs the same to said data transfer means and outputs said audio-visual data transferred from said data transfer means to a communication line connected to an outside apparatus, wherein said data transfer means has;

an input buffering means performing the buffering of said audio-visual data input from said disc recording and reproducing means;

an output buffering means performing the buffering of said audio-visual data which is transferred to said disc recording and reproducing means; and

a recording and reproduction control means controlling each of the reproduction operation and recording operation of said disc recording and reproducing means in accordance with respective remaining recording capacities of the input buffering means and said output buffering means.

2. A data recording and reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said disc recording and reproducing means records audio-visual data which was reproduced from said tape recording medium by said tape recording and reproducing means and transferred by said data transfer means and said audio-visual data which was received by said first input/output means and said second input/output means and transferred by said data transfer means in said disc recording medium;

and

said tape recording and reproducing means records said audio-visual data which was reproduced from said disc recording medium by said disc recording and reproducing means and said audio-visual data which was received by said first input/output means and said second input/output means and transferred by said data transfer means in said tape recording medium.

3. A data recording and reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said recording and reproduction control means starts the reproduction operation of said disc recording and reproducing means where the remaining storage capacity of the input buffering means becomes larger than a predetermined value and stops the reproduction operation of said disc recording and reproducing means where the remaining storage capacity of said input buffering means becomes a predetermined value or less.

4. A data recording and reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein

said tape recording means reproduces said audio-visual data at the data rate with which said data transfer means receives said audio-visual data and records said audio-visual data at the data rate with which the data transfer means transfers said audio-visual data.

5. A data recording and reproducing apparatus asset forth in claim 1, wherein said second input/output means has:

a data output means for converting audio-visual data of a parallel format from the data transfer means to audio-visual data of a serial format and outputting the same to a predetermined communication line of the outside apparatus; and

a data reception means for receiving audio-visual data of a serial format from a predetermined communication line of an outside apparatus and converting the same to audio-visual data of a parallel format and outputting the same to said data transfer means.