Information processor
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsHironori Komi, Shinichi Obata
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Abstract
The invention provides an efficient transfer of video/audio contents recorded by a server in advance for a user to view the contents with a mobile terminal, whereby the user is relieved of troublesome operations. The information processor includes two record means for recording coded video/audio data, the second record means controls already played back data having already been viewed by the user of the data transferred from the first record means, and when data is newly transferred from the first record means, the retransfer means is provided which erases only the already played back data, and transfers the data corresponding to a capacity evacuated by the erasing from the first record means.
Claims8
An image data recording and reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a first recording and reproduction unit configured to record image data to and to reproduce image data from a first recording medium,
- a second recording and reproduction unit configured to record image data to and to reproduce image data from a second recording medium,
- a controller configured to control the first and second recording and reproduction units so that image data are transferred from the first recording medium to the second recording medium, and
- a play list editor configured to edit a play list of image data to be transferred from the first recording medium to the second recording medium according to a selection by a user in a predetermined unit of image data recorded on the first recording medium,
- wherein the controller, in response to the user operation, is configured such that when there are already-reproduced image data recorded on the second recording medium, the already-reproduced image data are automatically deleted in a smaller unit than the predetermined unit, and next image data determined according to image data recorded on the second recording medium and the play list are automatically transferred from the first recording medium to the second recording medium in the smaller unit than the predetermined unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.