Information processing apparatus, method of controlling its external appliances and a television broadcast receiver
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsAkira Miyazawa, Kenji Matsumoto
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus previously grasps a function of an information recording/reproducing apparatus externally connected via a network when a connection is made. When the information recording/reproducing apparatus is in a recording state, the apparatus instructs the information recording/reproducing apparatus to reproduce recorded information in response to an instruction input of time shift reproduction of reproducing the recorded information.
Claims15
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a connector connectable to an external information recording/reproducing apparatus;
- a controller determining whether or not the information recording/reproducing apparatus is recording information;
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- a reproduction instructor instructing the information recording/reproducing apparatus to reproduce recorded information by a time shift reproducing mode in response to an instruction input in a state that the controller determines that the information recording/reproducing apparatus is recording information.
A method of controlling a external appliance of an information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a determination process of determining whether or not an information recording/reproducing apparatus externally connected is recording information;
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- a reproduction instruction process of instructing the information recording/reproducing apparatus to reproduce recorded information by a time shift reproducing mode in response to an instruction input in a state that the controller determinates that the information recording/reproducing apparatus is recording information.
A television broadcast receiver comprising:
- an external connector for making an external connection of a recording/reproducing apparatus;
- a tuner tuning a television broadcast signal;
- a demodulator demodulating a content of a broadcasting program from the television broadcast signal tuned by the tuner;
- a controller determining whether or not the information recording/reproducing apparatus is recording information;
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- a reproduction instructor instructing the recording/reproducing apparatus to reproduce a recorded content by a time shift reproducing mode in response to an instruction input in a state that the controller determines that the recording/reproducing apparatus is recording information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.