Signal recording/reproducing apparatus and method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMasashi Ohta, Takao Takahashi, Toshiya Akiba, Masami Tomita, Toshimichi Hamada, Taro Suito, Katsunari Miyata, Koichi Chotoku
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Abstract
A signal recorder/reproducer comprising an integrated buffer memory 22 having a memory area for a recording system and a memory area for a reproduction system, the allocation of the memory areas being variable, and a system controller 5 to control, via a recording control signal input unit 2 or reproduction control signal input unit 4, the allocation of the memory areas in the integrated buffer memory 22 depending upon which is designated by the user, a recording or reproduction mode.
Claims5
A method of recording a signal into a recording medium and reproducing a signal recorded in the recording medium, wherein allocation of a memory area for a recording system and a separate memory area for a reproduction system in an integrated memory unit is variable in accordance with a recording and/or reproduction mode.
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