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US 2002/0172497 A1Published application
Apparatus for recording and reproducing information with ring buffer
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorKenichiro Tada
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Abstract
An apparatus for recording and reproducing information with a ring buffer is able to prevent an overwrite onto a scheduled reproducing portion during the time shift reproduction. When a current reproducing position in the ring buffer is precedent to a current recording position and a recording speed at the present point of time is higher than a reproducing speed, the reproducing speed is raised forcibly.
Claims6
An apparatus for recording and reproducing information with a ring buffer for recording a video signal which is supplied as time elapses, comprising:
- a recording and reproducing part for reproducing a recorded video signal recorded in said ring buffer while continuously recording said video signal from a head position to a last position of said ring buffer;
- a recording and reproducing position information obtaining part for obtaining information representing each of a current recording position and a current reproducing position in said ring buffer;
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- a reproducing speed adjusting part for adjusting a reproducing speed in a manner that said reproducing speed is raised when said current reproducing position is precedent to said current recording position and a recording speed of said video signal by said recording and reproducing part is higher than a reproducing speed.
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