Content recording/erasing apparatus
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorTetsuro Sameshima
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Abstract
A content recording/erasing apparatus includes a hard disk. An unnecessary MPEG file recorded on the hard disk is intermittently erased part by part in parallel with a normal recording process. It is noted that prior to a start of erasing the unnecessary MPEG file, time length data relating to a total amount of an actual remaining amount of the hard disk and the unnecessary MPEG file is set in a remaining amount register, and a setting value is periodically subtracted.
Claims5
A content recording/erasing apparatus which intermittently erases an unnecessary content from a recording medium part by part in parallel with recording a desired content into said recording medium, comprising:
- a first setter for setting in a register a numeral relating to a total amount of a remaining amount of said recording medium and an amount of said unnecessary content prior to a start of erasing said unnecessary content;
- and
- a subtracter for periodically subtracting the numeral set in said register.
A content recording/erasing method which intermittently erases unnecessary content from a recording medium part by part in parallel with recording a desired content into said recording medium, comprising steps of:
- (a) setting in a register a numeral relating to a total amount of a remaining amount of said recording medium and an amount of said unnecessary content prior to a start of erasing said unnecessary content;
- and
- (b) periodically subtracting the numeral set in said register.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.