Record/playback apparatus

• US 8,081,867 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2006
• Issued: 12/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Fujishima, Yoshikazu, Noda, Ryusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Shibru, Helen
• Application Number:
  US11/497,346
• Publication Number:
  US 20070031120A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,966 Days
• Field of Search: 386/95, 386/46, 386/80, 386/45, 386/108, 386124-126, 386/68, 386 6- 7, 386/69
• US Class Current: 386/249
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A record/playback apparatus includes a recording unit that records a televised program being received by a receiving unit to a disk-shaped recording medium such as a DVD or HD. Also, a commercial message detecting unit detects a switch from main program to commercial message and a switch from commercial message to main program. The recording unit records the main program and commercial messages inserted in the main program to the recording medium under separate titles, based on a result of the detection by the commercial message detecting unit.

Claims

1. A record/playback apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit that receives a televised program;

a recording unit that records the program being received by the receiving unit to a disk;

a commercial message detecting unit that detects a switch from a main program to commercial message and a switch from commercial message to the main program when the recording unit is recording the program; and

a playback unit that plays the program recorded on the disk, the playback unit configured to perform a playback method of continuously playing only the main program, a playback method of playing the main program with multiple commercial messages inserted in the main program, and a playback method of continuously playing only the multiple commercial message,

wherein the recording unit records;

the main program and the multiple commercial messages to the disk under separate title names;

temporally consecutive commercial messages among the multiple commercial messages to the disk under the same title name; and

the main program and the multiple commercial messages to the disk under related title names, based on a result of the detection by the commercial message detecting unit, and

wherein the record/playback apparatus further comprises;

a selection unit that selects, in response to an input, whether the playback unit performs the playback method of continuously playing only the main program, the playback method of playing the main program with the multiple commercial messages inserted therein, or the playback method of continuously playing only the multiple commercial messages; and

an output unit connected to a display apparatus which displays the main program and the multiple commercial messages played by the playback unit, the output unit outputting to the display apparatus on screen display graphics requesting an input that indicates the selection of the playback method by the selection unit.