Video content recording apparatus and video content transfer method

• US 7,725,002 B2
• Filed: 11/03/2008
• Issued: 05/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakajima, Atsushi, Honsawa, Kunio
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier; Robert
• Application Number:
  US12/264,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20090169169A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 386/46, 386/94, 386/95, 386/124, 386/125, 386/45, 386/92
• US Class Current: 386/326
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/913 for scrambling ; for copy protection

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a content recording apparatus includes a management module configured to manage information on content that is transferred from a source apparatus and stored in a storage device, and the content the source apparatus has, a recording module configured to record the content transferred from the source apparatus to the storage device in the inactive state and to retain the content in the source apparatus, and a control module configured to issue a command to the source apparatus based on the information on the content managed by the management module if the user determines that the content is used, the command being intended to deactivate content the source apparatus has, and configured to activate the content stored in the storage device in response to deactivation of the content the source apparatus has.

Claims

1. A video content recording apparatus comprising:

a storage device configured to store copyright-protected video content in an active or inactive state;

a management module configured to manage information on video content that is transferred from a source apparatus and stored in the storage device, and the video content stored in the source apparatus;

a recording module configured to record the video content transferred from the source apparatus having the video content in the active state to the storage device in the inactive state;

an input module configured to be input that the video content is used after the transfer of the video content is completed; and

to

a control module configured to issue, to the source apparatus, a command for changing the state of the video content stored in the source apparatus to the inactive state based on the information on the video content managed by the management module when it is input that the video content is used, and to change the state of the video content stored in the storage device to the active state in response to changing of the state of the video content stored in the source apparatus to the inactive state.

2. The video content recording apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the control module deletes the video content from the storage device when it is input that the video content is not used, and deletes the information on the video content managed by the management module.

3. The video content recording apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an interrogation module configured to interrogate the source apparatus about information on video contents which are stored in the source apparatus; and

a determination module configured to determine a video content, which is matched with a move candidate determination condition set in advance, as a video content transferred from the source apparatus based on a result of the interrogation.

4. The video content recording apparatus of claim 3, wherein

the move candidate determination condition set in advance is a condition set in advance by a user.

5. A video content transfer method for transferring copyright-protected video content from a source apparatus to a destination apparatus, the method comprising:

managing, by the determination apparatus, information on the video content which is transferred from the source apparatus and video content stored in the destination apparatus;

transferring, by the source apparatus, the video content from the source apparatus and retaining video content in the active state in the source apparatus;

recording, by the source apparatus, the transferred video content in the inactive state in a storage device of the source apparatus;

detecting a inputting showing that the video content is used after the transferring of the video content is completed; and

changing the state of the video content stored in the source apparatus to the inactive state based on the managed information on the video content when it is detected that the video content is used, and then changing the state of the video content stored in the destination apparatus to the active state.

6. The video content transfer method of claim 5, wherein

the source apparatus deletes the video content from the storage device when it is input that the video content is not used, and deletes the information on the video content.

7. The video content transfer method of claim 5, further comprising:

interrogating from the destination apparatus to the source apparatus about information on video contents stored in the source apparatus; and

determining, by the destination apparatus, a video content, matched with a move candidate determination condition set in advance, as a video content transferred from the source apparatus based on a result of the interrogation.

8. The video content transfer method of claim 7, wherein

the move candidate determination condition set in advance is a condition set in advance by a user.

9. A video content recording apparatus comprising:

a storage device configured to store copyright-protected video content in an active or inactive state;

a management module configured to manage information on video content that is transferred from a source apparatus and stored in the storage device, and the video content stored in the source apparatus;

a recording module configured to record the video content in active state transferred from the source apparatus having the video content in the inactive state to the storage device;

an input module configured to be input that the video content is not used after the transfer of the video content is completed; and

a control module configured to delete the video content in active state stored in the storage device when it is input that the video content is not used, and to issue, to the source apparatus, a command for changing the state of the video content stored in the source apparatus to the active state.

10. A video content transfer method for transferring copyright-protected video content from a source apparatus to a destination apparatus, the method comprising:

managing, by the determination apparatus, information on the video content which is transferred from the source apparatus and video content stored in the destination apparatus;

transferring, by the source apparatus, the video content to the destination apparatus and retaining the video content in inactive state in the source apparatus;

recording, by the source apparatus, the transferred video content in an active state in a storage device of the source apparatus;

detecting a inputting showing that the video content is not used after the transferring of the video content is completed; and

deleting the video content stored in the storage device in the active state when it is detecting the inputting showing that the video content is not used, issuing a command for changing the state of the video content stored in the source apparatus to the active state.