# US 7,412,153 B2 · Information recording device and method, and information recording system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,412,153 B2 - Document ID: US7412153B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 10/070,239 - Filed: 2001-07-02 - Published: 2002-12-05 - Granted: 2008-08-12 - Earliest claimed: 2000-06-30 - Assignees: Sony Corporation - Inventors: Minoru Kawahara; Noboru Yanagita - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7412153B2 ## CPC - G11B 27/3054: {Vertical Interval Time code [VITC]} - G11B 15/07: on containers - G11B 23/08714: {Auxiliary features (sensing such features G11B15/06)} - G11B 27/002: {Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; (transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22)} - G11B 27/031: Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals - G11B 27/032: on tapes (G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence) - G11B 27/034: on discs (G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence) - G11B 27/11: by using information not detectable on the record carrier - G11B 27/28: by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording {(G11B27/22 takes precedence)} - G11B 27/34: Indicating arrangements {(indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D)} - G11B 27/36: Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing {(for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06)} - G11B 5/00813: {magnetic tapes} - G11B 5/0086: {using cyclically driven heads providing segmented tracks} - G11B 7/00: Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation {by modifying optical properties or the physical structure}, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power {by sensing optical properties}; Record carriers therefor (G11B11/00, G11B13/00 take precedence) - G11B 2220/17: Card-like record carriers - G11B 2220/41: Flat as opposed to hierarchical combination, e.g. library of tapes or discs, CD changer, or groups of record carriers that together store one title - G11B 2220/655: Memory in cassette [MIC] - G11B 2220/90: Tape-like record carriers - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) ## Abstract In recording information, an SMPTE 339M-defined UMID buried in video and audio material signals to be recorded to a magnetic tape (30) or a UMID generated from information other than the material signals, is written to a contactless memory tag (37), whereby it is made possible to acquire a UMID for material signals recorded in the recording medium without having to actually read the material signals recorded in the recording medium and use the UMID for data search, validation, etc. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information recorder comprising: means for extracting a predetermined standard-defined UMID buried in material signals to be recorded to a replaceable recording medium; and means for writing/reading information to/from a contactless information storage means appended to or incorporated in the replaceable recording medium and which is operative responsively to an electromagnetic field to send or receive information in a contactless manner to or from outside via the electromagnetic field, the writing/reading means writing the UMID extracted by the extracting means to the contactless information storage means, wherein data is prevented from being written over an existing record and data is prevented from being erroneously erased by collating end of source point information recorded in the contactless information storage means with end of source point information recorded on the replaceable recording medium thereby locating an end of source point. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: means for holding the extracted predetermined standard-defined UMID; and an arranging means for putting the held UMID into a predetermined data format, the UMID put in the predetermined data format being written to the contactless information storage means by the writing/reading means. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the arranging means puts the UMID into the predetermined data format with omission of a fixed part of the UMID. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the arranging means puts the UMID into the predetermined data format with the UMID being classified according to a predetermined bit flag. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the arranging means puts the UMID into the predetermined data format with omission of a common part of the UMID. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising means for restoring the UMID put in the predetermined data format to the predetermined standard-defined UMID. ### Claim 7 An information recording method comprising steps of: extracting a predetermined standard-defined UMID buried in material signals to be recorded to a replaceable recording medium; and writing/reading information to/from a contactless information storage means appended to or incorporated in the replaceable recording medium and which is operative responsively to an electromagnetic field to send or receive information in a contactless manner to or from outside via the electromagnetic field, the extracted UMID being written to the contactless information storage means, wherein data is prevented from being written over an existing record and data is prevented from being erroneously erased by collating end of source point information recorded in the contactless information storage means with end of source point information recorded on the replaceable recording medium thereby locating an end of source point. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method according to claim 7, further comprising steps of: holding the extracted predetermined standard-defined UMID; and putting the held UMID into a predetermined data format, the UMID put in the predetermined data format being written to the contactless information storage means. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the arranging means puts the UMID into the predetermined data format with omission of a fixed part of the UMID. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the arranging means puts the UMID into the predetermined data format with the UMID being classified according to a predetermined bit flag. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the arranging means puts the UMID into the predetermined data format with omission of a common part of the UMID. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, further comprising means for restoring the UMID put in the predetermined data format to the predetermined standard-defined UMID. ### Claim 13 An information recorder comprising: means for generating, from information other than material signals to be recorded to a replaceable recording medium, a UMID indicating the material signals; and means for writing/reading information to/from a contactless information storage means appended to or incorporated in the replaceable recording medium and which is operative responsively to an electromagnetic field to send or receive information in a contactless manner to or from outside via the electromagnetic field, the writing/reading means writing the generated UMID to the contactless information storage means, wherein data is prevented from being written over an existing record and data is prevented from being erroneously erased by collating end of source point information recorded in the contactless information storage means with end of source point information recorded on the replaceable recording medium thereby locating an end of source point. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising: an arranging means for putting the generated UMID into a predetermined data format, the UMID put in the predetermined data format being written to the contactless information storage means by the writing/reading means. ### Claim 15 An information recording method comprising steps of: generating, from information other than material signals to be recorded to a replaceable recording medium, a UMID indicating the material signals; and writing/reading information to/from a contactless information storage means appended to or incorporated in the replaceable recording medium and which is operative responsively to an electromagnetic field to send or receive information in a contactless manner to or from outside via the electromagnetic field, the generated UMID being written to the contactless information storage means, wherein data is prevented from being written over an existing record and data is prevented from being erroneously erased by collating end of source point information recorded in the contactless information storage means with end of source point information recorded on the replaceable recording medium thereby locating an end of source point. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, further comprising a step of: putting the generated UMID into a predetermined data format, the UMID put in the predetermined data format being written to the contactless information storage means. ### Claim 17 An information recording system comprising: means for writing/reading information to/from a contactless information storage means appended to or incorporated in the replaceable recording medium and which is operative responsively to an electromagnetic field to send or receive information in a contactless manner to or from outside via the electromagnetic field; an information recorder for writing, to the contactless information storage means by the writing/reading means, a UMID extracted from material signals to be recorded and indicating the material signals recorded to the recording medium or a UMID generated from information other than the material signals to be recorded to the recording medium and indicating the material signals; and a UMID storage unit for storing a UMID read from the contactless information storage means appended to or incorporated in each of a plurality of recording mediums, wherein data is prevented from being written over an existing record and data is prevented from being erroneously erased by collating end of source point information recorded in the contactless information storage means with end of source point information recorded on the replaceable recording medium thereby locating an end of source point. ### Claim 18 An information recording method comprising steps of: writing a UMID extracted from material signals to be recorded and indicating the material signals or a UMID generated from information other than the material signals to be recorded to the recording medium and indicating the material signals to a contactless information storage means appended to or incorporated in the replaceable recording medium and which is operative responsively to an electromagnetic field to send or receive information in a contactless manner to or from outside via the electromagnetic field; and storing the UMID read from the contactless information storage means appended to or incorporated in each of a plurality of recording mediums, wherein data is prevented from being written over an existing record and data is prevented from being erroneously erased by collating end of source point information recorded in the contactless information storage means with end of source point information recorded on the replaceable recording medium thereby locating an end of source point.