Recording apparatus and recording method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsJunichi Aramaki, Natsumi Saito
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Abstract
A recording/playback apparatus provided by the present invention comprises at least two recording/playback units. When the size of a recordable area left in a recording medium mounted on one of the recording/playback units undergoing a recording operation first is detected to become equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, a recording operation is started in the other recording/playback unit so that it is possible to obtain a recording result without losing information due to replacement of a recording medium.
Claims20
A recording apparatus for preserving recorded data continuously on a plurality of recording mediums in a recording operation even in the event of a switching of said recording operation from any one of said recording mediums to another, said apparatus comprising:
- at least two recording means, namely, a first recording means and a second recording means;
- a data switching means for supplying recorded data selectively to said recording means;
- and
- a wait-state terminating means for detecting a location in close proximity to an end point of a recordable area of a first recording medium mounted on said first recording means currently being subjected to an early recording operation and for starting a later recording operation of said second recording means having been waiting for said later recording operation to be started before an arrival of said early recording operation of said first recording means at said end point of said recordable area of said first recording medium.
A recording method for preserving recorded data continuously on a plurality of recording mediums in a recording operation even in the event of a switching of said recording operation from any one of said recording mediums to another, said method comprising the steps of:
- detecting a location in close proximity to an end point of a recordable area of a first recording medium mounted on a first recording means currently being subjected to an early recording operation;
- and
- starting a later recording operation of a second recording means having been waiting for said later recording operation to be started before an arrival of said early recording operation of said first recording means at the said point of said recordable area of said first recording medium.
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