Video recording/reproducing apparatus and method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaish Toshiba
InventorsTakeo Horiguchi, Masafumi Tamura
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Abstract
A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a receiver which receives a broadcast program, an acquiring unit which acquires program information of the broadcast program, a recording unit which records the broadcast program received by the receiver together with the program information acquired by the acquiring unit, a selector which selects a type of the program, and a searching unit which searches a latest program of the type selected by the selector based on the program information acquired by the acquiring unit and the program information recorded by the recording unit.
Claims22
A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a receiver which receives a broadcast program;
- an acquiring unit which acquires program information of the broadcast program;
- a recording unit which records the broadcast program received by the receiver together with the program information acquired by the acquiring unit;
- a selector which selects a type of the program;
- and
- a searching unit which searches a latest program of the type selected by the selector based on the program information acquired by the acquiring unit and the program information recorded by the recording unit.
A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a receiver which receives a broadcast program;
- an acquiring unit which acquires program information of the broadcast program;
- a recording unit which records the broadcast program received by the receiver together with the program information acquired by the acquiring unit;
- and
- a display unit which displays the program information recorded by the recording unit and the program information acquired by the acquiring unit together with a recording state or a reproducing state of the program.
A video recording/reproducing method comprising:
- receiving a broadcast program;
- acquiring program information of the broadcast program;
- recording the received broadcast program together with the acquired program information;
- displaying types of the program to allow an user to select one of the types of the program;
- and
- searching a latest program of the selected type based on the recorded program information.
A video recording/reproducing method comprising:
- receiving a broadcast program;
- acquiring program information of the broadcast program;
- recording the received broadcast program together with the acquired program information;
- and
- displaying the recorded program information and the acquired program information together with a recording state or a reproducing state of the program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.