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US 7,735,110 B2Granted
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program storage medium
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTatsuo Kaizu, Takuma Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Hanaya
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Abstract
The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a program storage medium. The user of a personal computer selects a television program to be preset recorded from a program guide stored in an EPG server and downloads the corresponding preset recording data. When, from the downloaded preset recording data, a recording start time is found reached, the personal computer selects commands for starting recording a channel to be recorded and transmits the selected commands from a video mouse as infrared signals. Receiving the recording start command, a VCR starts recording.
Claims9
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- program acquiring means for selectively acquiring a television program from a program source;
- means for storing said acquired television program in a storage device of said information processing apparatus;
- means for selectively viewing said acquired television program;
- control information acquiring means for acquiring from a program information providing apparatus control information for controlling preset recording of a program;
- identification information acquiring means for acquiring identification information for identifying a recording apparatus by which said program is recorded;
- code information acquiring means for acquiring, on the basis of said identification information acquired by said identification information acquiring means, code information for controlling said recording apparatus, said code information correspondingly employed with said control information acquired by said control information acquiring means, said code information acquiring means comprising:
- determination means for determining whether code information corresponding to said identification information is recorded in a memory of said information processing apparatus;
- and
- accession means for accessing, if said determination means determines that said code information is not recorded in said memory, a server apparatus to download said code information;
- code transmitting means for transmitting said code information acquired by said code information acquiring means to said recording apparatus.
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An information processing method comprising:
- selectively acquiring a television program from a program source;
- storing said acquired television program in a storage device of an information processing apparatus;
- selectively viewing said acquired television program;
- acquiring from a program information providing apparatus control information for controlling preset recording of a program;
- acquiring identification information for identifying a recording apparatus by which said program is recorded;
- acquiring, on the basis of said identification information acquired in said identification information acquiring, code information for controlling said recording apparatus, said code information correspondingly employed with said control information acquired during said control information acquiring, said code information acquiring comprising:
- determining whether code information corresponding to said identification information is recorded in a memory of an information processing apparatus;
- and
- accessing, if said determining determines that said code information is not recorded in said memory, a server apparatus to download said code information;
- and
- transmitting said code information acquired during said code information acquiring to said recording apparatus.
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A computer-readable storage medium, including computer program instructions which cause a computer to implement a method of information processing, comprising:
- selectively acquiring a television program from a program source;
- storing said acquired television program in a storage device of an information processing apparatus;
- selectively viewing said acquired television program;
- acquiring from a program information providing apparatus control information for controlling preset recording of a program;
- acquiring identification information for identifying a recording apparatus by which said program is recorded;
- acquiring, on the basis of said identification information acquired in said identification information acquiring , code information for controlling said recording apparatus, said code information correspondingly employed with said control information acquired during said control information acquiring, said code information acquiring comprising:
- determining whether code information corresponding to said identification information is recorded in a memory of an information processing apparatus;
- and
- accessing, if said determining determines that said code information is not recorded in said memory, a server apparatus to download said code information;
- and
- transmitting said code information acquired during said code information acquiring to said recording apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.