Recording apparatus

• US 8,078,033 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2006
• Issued: 12/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Fujishima, Yoshikazu, Noda, Ryusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Shibru, Helen
• Application Number:
  US11/497,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20070031118A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,959 Days
• Field of Search: 386/46, 386/95, 386/80, 386/45, 386/108, 386124-126, 386/250, 386/249, 386/251
• US Class Current: 386/250
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• 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 recording apparatus includes a recording unit that records a televised program being received by a receiving unit to a disk-shaped recording medium. The recording apparatus also includes a commercial message detecting unit that detects a switch from main program to commercial message and a switch from commercial message to main program when the recording unit is recording the program. The recording unit records the program to the recording medium with chapter breaks set at first time intervals when commercial messages inserted in the main program are being received by the receiving unit, and set at second time intervals when the main program is being received by the receiving unit.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit that receives a televised program;

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

a commercial message detecting unit that detects a switch from main program to commercial message and a switch from commercial message to main program by detecting a change in an audio mode of an audio signal included in the program being received by the receiving unit and measuring a time period for which the audio mode is constant when the recording unit is recording the program,

wherein the recording unit;

sets a chapter break based on a preset first time interval upon the switch from main program to commercial message being detected by the commercial message detecting unit;

sets the chapter break, based on a second time interval which is longer than the first time interval, upon the switch from commercial message to main program being detected by the commercial message detecting unit; and

records, in a lead-in area of the optical disk, information showing a start position of each chapter that is set based on the first time or the second time;

wherein the recording apparatus further comprises;

a playback unit that reads the information recorded in the lead-in area of the optical disk and playbacks the program recorded on the optical disk based on the information; and

an operation unit that receives input for setting the second time interval.

2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the commercial message detecting unit detects the switch from main program to commercial message and the switch from commercial message to main program by further detecting a change in a level of the audio signal of the program being received by the receiving unit.

3. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first time interval is 15 seconds.