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Digital information recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus and transmitting apparatus

DC CAFC
  • US 9,773,522 B2
  • Filed: 05/15/2015
  • Issued: 09/26/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system, comprising:

  • a transmitter configured to transmit audio/video information;

    a receiver configured to receive the audio/video information;

    a storage medium configured to store the audio/video information; and

    a reproducer configured to reproduce the audio/video information from the storage medium according to control information related to the audio/video information,wherein the control information includes;

    a first period for retaining the audio/video information on the storage medium, and a second period, that begins at the start of an initial reproduction of the audio/video information, for enabling a start of a reproduction of the audio/video information stored on the storage medium, andwherein, in a case where an elapsed time from a retaining of the audio/video information is within the first period and an elapsed time from an initial reproduction of the audio/video information is within the second period, a reproduction of the audio/video information is enabled, and, in a case where a reproduction is started before the end of the first period and the reproduction is continuing at the end of the first period, the reproduction to an end of the audio/video information beyond the end of the first period is enabled, and thereafter a start of an another reproduction of the audio/video information is disabled even if an elapsed time from the initial reproduction of the audio/video information is within the second period.

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