Data recording/reproducing apparatus and method

Abstract

A data recording/reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a temporary storage unit for storing a data stream including a plurality of data units, which is divided into M (M is a natural number) segments that stores the plurality of data units; a control unit for detecting that K (K is a natural number) data units related to the order of reproducing or recording data of a first data unit, after the first data unit included in the data stream is stored in the temporary storage unit, and setting relational information for the K data units in the first data unit; and a recording/reproducing unit that receives a data stream including the set first data unit from the temporary storage unit on a segment basis, and references the received data stream to generate recording data to record the data on a recording medium, and/or reads the recorded data from the recording medium to reproduce the read data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.