Information recording and reproducing apparatus, and control method thereof
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorAtsushi Hashimoto
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Abstract
An information recording and reproducing apparatus includes a record and reproduce section to record or reproduce information signal onto or from an information medium, a determination section to determine at least one of a kind and a state of the medium, a function management section to manage functions for recording and functions for reproduction, and to select functions which can be performed from the managed functions according to the determination result of the determination section, and a display control section to control a display unit to display a list of functions selected by the function management section.
Claims12
An information recording and reproducing apparatus which records or reproduces information signal onto or from an information medium, the apparatus comprising:
- a function management section that manages one or more of functions available to each kind or state of the medium;
- a determination section that determines at least one of a kind and a state of the medium;
- a function selecting section that selects functions which can be performed to the kind or state of the medium from the managed functions according to the determination result of the determination section;
- and
- a display control section that generates data for displaying a list of functions selected by the function selecting section.
A method of controlling an information recording and reproducing apparatus which records or reproduces information signal onto or from an information medium, the method comprising:
- managing one or more of functions available to each kind or state of the medium;
- determining at least one of a kind and a state of the medium;
- selecting functions which can be performed from the managed functions according to the determination result;
- and
- generating data for displaying a list of selected functions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.