Recording apparatus, recording method and recording medium
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorHidenori Aotake
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Abstract
A recording period of time for recording a program and a bit rate of an MPEG system stream produced by the encoder board as a result of encoding a program are set. The microprocessor computes a recording capacity from the recording period of time and the bit rate. A free area with the size equal to the computed recording capacity is allocated in the hard disc. The free area is used for storing an MPEG system stream of a program received typically by a TV tuner employed in the encoder board.
Claims8
A recording apparatus for recording information comprising:
- a setting means for setting a recording time required for recording said information and for setting bit rate information on a bit rate of said information;
- a computing means for computing a required capacity, that is, a recording capacity required for recording said information, from said recording time and said bit rate information set by said setting means;
- an allocating means for allocating a required area, that is, a recording area with a size equal to at least said required capacity, in an information recording medium for recording said information;
- and
- a recording means for recording said information in said required area.
A recording method for recording information comprising the steps of:
- computing a required capacity, that is, a recording capacity required for recording said information, from a recording time required for recording said information and bit rate information on a bit rate of said information;
- allocating a required area, that is, a recording area with a size equal to at least said required capacity, in an information recording medium for recording said information;
- and
- recording said information in said required area.
A recording medium for recording a program to let a computer record information wherein said program prescribes a recording method comprising the steps of:
- computing a required capacity, that is, a recording capacity required for recording said information from a recording time required for recording said information and bit rate information on a bit rate of said information;
- allocating a required area, that is, a recording area with a size equal to at least said required capacity, in an information recording medium for recording said information;
- and
- recording said information in said required area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.