Recording and playback apparatus, music-data recording and playback method, and music-data recording and playback program

• US 7,307,935 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2004
• Issued: 12/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kusano, Manabu, Ejiri, Masatoshi, Wakabayashi, Shinji
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thang V.
• Application Number:
  US10/930,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20050088933A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• Field of Search: 369/53.31, 369/53.35, 369/47.15, 369/47.22, 369/84, 711/162, 711/111, 711/156
• US Class Current: 369/53.31
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/04 Arrangements for preventing, inhibiting, or warning against double recording on the same blank or against other recording or reproducing malfunctions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/12 by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs

Abstract

A recording and playback apparatus according to the present invention includes a duplicating section for duplicating music data from a music CD in a CD read-out section onto a hard disk and a preserving section which, if duplication by the duplicating section is interrupted, preserves TOC information identifying the music CD and duplicated-music-data information identifying duplicated music data such that the TOC information is associated with the duplicated-music-data information. The recording and playback apparatus further includes a playback section for playing back music data stored in the hard disk. When a music CD having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the CD read-out section, the duplicating section resumes duplication onto the hard disk based on the TOC information and the duplicated-music-data information preserved in the preserving section.

Claims

1. A recording and playback apparatus comprising:

a duplicating section for duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;

a preserving section which, if duplication by the duplicating section is interrupted, preserves identification information identifying the recording medium and duplicated-music-data information identifying duplicated music data such that the identification information is associated with the duplicated-music-data information; and

a playback section for playing back music data stored in the storage section,

wherein, when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section, the duplicating section resumes duplication onto the storage section based on the identification information and the duplicated-music-data information preserved in the preserving section; and

wherein the playback section resumes playback of music data from interrupted music if the duplicating section has resumed duplication within a predetermined period of time, or from the first piece of music if the duplicating section has resumed duplication after a predetermined period of time or if the recording medium in the read-out section has been ejected and has been placed again in the read-out section.

2. The recording and playback apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a dialog display section for displaying dialog which enables a user to select whether or not duplication onto the storage section is to be resumed when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section.

3. The recording and playback apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the duplicating section duplicates music data from the recording medium onto the storage section by reading the music data at a high rate, and the playback section plays back the music data stored in the storage section at a standard rate.

4. The recording and playback apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the recording medium is an optical disk on which music is recorded and the storage section is a hard disk.

5. The recording and playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium is one of a CD and a DVD.

6. A recording and playback apparatus comprising:

a duplicating section for duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;

a playback section for playing back music data recorded on the recording medium; and

a preserving section which, when playback by the playback section is interrupted as a result of a source being switched, preserves playback-interrupt-point information identifying a point at which the playback is interrupted,

wherein the duplicating section continues duplication onto the storage section even though playback is interrupted as a result of the source being switched, and

when an instruction is given that music data on the recording medium in the read-out section should be played back as a result of a source being switched, the playback section resumes playback of music data on the recording medium based on the playback-interrupt-point information preserved in the preserving section.

7. The recording and playback apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the duplicating section duplicates music data from the recording medium onto the storage section by reading the music data at a high rate, and the playback section plays back the music data stored in the storage section at a standard rate.

8. The recording and playback apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the recording medium is an optical disk on which music is recorded and the storage section is a hard disk.

9. A music-data recording and playback method comprising:

a duplicating act of duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;

a preserving act of enabling a preserving section to preserve identification information identifying the recording medium and duplicated-music-data information identifying duplicated music data such that the identification information is associated with the duplicated-music-data information, when duplication in the duplicating act is interrupted; and

a playback act of playing back music data stored in the storage section,

wherein, in the duplicating act, when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section, duplication onto the storage section is resumed based on the identification information and the duplicated-music-data information preserved in the preserving section; and

wherein, in the playback act, playback of music data is resumed from interrupted music if duplication is resumed in the duplication act within a predetermined period of time, or from the first piece of music if duplication is resumed in the duplicating act after a predetermined period of time or if the recording medium in the read-out section has been ejected and has been placed again in the read-out section.

10. The music-data recording and playback method according to claim 9, further comprising a dialog display act of displaying dialog which enables a user to select whether or not duplication onto the storage section is to be resumed when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section.

11. A music-data recording and playback method comprising:

a duplicating act of duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;

a playback act of playing back music data recorded on the recording medium; and

a preserving act of enabling a preserving section to preserve playback-interrupt-point information identifying a point at which playback is interrupted, when playback in the playback act is interrupted as a result of a source being switched,

wherein, in the duplicating act, duplication onto the storage section is continued even though playback is interrupted as a result of the source being switched, and

when an instruction is given that music data on the recording medium in the read-out section should be played back as a result of a source being switched, playback of music data on the recording medium is resumed in the playback act based on the playback-interrupt-point information preserved in the preserving section.

12. A computer-readable medium encoded with a music-data recording and playback program comprising:

duplicating means for duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;

means for enabling a preserving section to preserve identification information identifying the recording medium and duplicated-music-data information identifying duplicated music data such that the identification information is associated with the duplicated-music-data information, when duplication by the duplicating means is interrupted;

playback means for playing back music data stored in the storage section; and

duplication-resuming means for resuming duplication onto the storage section based on the identification information and the duplicated-music-data information preserved in the preserving section, when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section;

wherein the playback means resumes playback of music data from interrupted music if the duplication-resuming means has resumed duplication within a predetermined period of time, or from the first piece of music if the duplication-resuming means has resumed duplication after a predetermined period of time or if the recording medium in the read-out section has been ejected and has been placed again in the read-out section.

13. The computer-readable medium encoded with a music-data recording and playback program according to claim 12, further comprising dialog display means for displaying dialog which enables a user to select whether or not duplication onto the storage section is to be resumed when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section.