Recording apparatus, recording method, and program

• US 8,320,745 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2006
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ohnuma, Kensuke, Asazu, Hideki, Souraku, Takehisa, Murakami, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thai
• Assistant Examiner(s): DANG, HUNG Q
• Application Number:
  US11/517,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20070058931A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,273 Days
• Field of Search: 386/1, 386/46, 386 52- 55, 386/111, 386/112, 386/121, 386125-126, 386/83, 386/95, 386291-299, 386239-248, 725/37, 725/38, 725/39, 725/50, 725/53, 725/58
• US Class Current: 386/291
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/462 Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

A recording apparatus is disclosed which records at least either a video or an audio signal of a broadcast program in accordance with reservation information. The recording apparatus includes: an acquisition block configured to acquire program information about the broadcast program; a calculation block configured to calculate a degree of similarity between a program name included in the reservation information and the program name described in the program information acquired by the acquisition block; a changing block configured to change the reservation information using the program information about the broadcast program determined by the degree of similarity, the changing block further changing the reservation information based on the program information about the broadcast program corresponding to program identification information included in the reservation information; and a recording control block configured to record at least either the video or the audio signal of the broadcast program in accordance with the reservation information.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus for recording at least either a video or an audio signal of a program in accordance with reservation information, said recording apparatus comprising:

an acquisition block configured to acquire program information about said program, wherein said program information includes a program information ID specific to said program information;

a calculation block configured to calculate a degree of similarity between a program name included in said reservation information and the program name described in said program information acquired by said acquisition block;

a changing block configured to change said reservation information using said program information about the program determined by said degree of similarity, said changing block further changing said reservation information based on the program information about the program corresponding to program identification information included in said reservation information;

a recording reservation management block configured to determine whether program information ID in said program information as part of said reservation information matches said program information ID in said acquired program information; and

a recording control block configured to record at least either the video or the audio signal of said program in accordance with said reservation wherein,

while recording is in progress in accordance With said reservation information, said recording control block compares the program identification information included in said reservation information with the program identification information about the currently broadcast program, said recording control block further stopping temporarily, resuming, or terminating the ongoing recording depending on an outcome of the comparison,

wherein when a different program having different program identification is inserted into the currently broadcast program, the recording of said program is put on hold for a duration of said different program.

2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said changing block updates said reservation information at predetermined time intervals.

3. A recording method for use with a recording apparatus which records at least either a video or an audio signal of a program in accordance with reservation information, said recording method comprising the steps of:

acquiring program information about Said program, said program information including a program information ID specific to said program information;

calculating a degree of similarity between a program name included in said reservation information and the program name described in said program information acquired by said acquisition block;

changing said reservation information using said program information about the program determined by said degree of similarity, said changing step further changing said reservation information based on the program information about the program corresponding to program identification information included in said reservation information;

determining whether program information ID in said program information as part of said reservation information matches said program information ID in said acquired program information; and

recording at least either the video or the audio signal of said program in accordance with said reservation information wherein,

while recording is in progress in accordance with said reservation information, a recording control step compares the program identification information included in said reservation information with the program identification information about the currently broadcast program, said recording control step further stopping temporarily, resuming, or terminating the ongoing recording depending on an outcome of the comparison,

wherein when a different program having different program identification is inserted into the currently broadcast program the recording of said program is put on hold for a duration of said different program.

4. A computer-readable program on a computer-redable non-transitory storage medium for causing a computer to carry out a recording method for recording at least either a video or an audio signal of a broadcast program in accordance with reservation information, said method comprising the steps of:

acquiring program information about said program, said program information including a program information ID specific to said program information;

calculating a degree of similarity between a program name included in said reservation information and the program name described in said program information acquired by said acquisition block;

changing said reservation information using said program information about the program determined by said degree of similarity, said changing step further changing said reservation information based on the program information about the program corresponding to program identification information included in said reservation information;

determining whether program information ID in said program information as part of said reservation information matches said program information ID in said acquired program information; and

recording at least either the video, or the audio signal of said program in accordance with said reservation information wherein,

while recording is in progress in accordance with said reservation information, a recording control step compares the program identification information included in said reservation information with the program identification information about the currently broadcast program, said recording control step further stopping temporarily, resuming, or terminating the ongoing recording depending on an outcome of the comparison,

wherein when a different program having different program identification is inserted into the currently broadcast program, the recording of said program is put on hold for a duration of said different program.