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US 8,787,734 B2Granted
Recording apparatus for recording program content transmitted in broadcast signal and control method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMiyako Minobe
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a storage unit configured to record program content data transmitted in a broadcast signal and store the transmitted program content data in a storage unit, a selection unit configured to select multi-view content data broadcast by a plurality of channels and including content data associated with each other from among the program content data stored in the storage unit, and a deletion unit configured to delete, from the storage unit, content data of at least one but not all of the plurality of channels included in the multi-view content data selected by the selection unit.
Claims14
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit configured to record and store program content data transmitted in a broadcast signal;
- a management unit configured to manage an available recording capacity of the storage unit;
- a selection unit configured to, in a case where the available recording capacity is less than a predetermined amount, (1) select a multi-view program content data broadcasted by a plurality of channels including content data associated with each other from among the program content data in the storage unit if there is the multi-view program content data in the storage unit, and (2) select a non multi-view program content data if there is no multi-view program content data in the storage unit, wherein the multi-view program content data comprises content data of at least a main channel and a sub channel;
- a display control unit configured to, (1) if the multi-view program content data is selected by the selection unit, display information of the main channel and the sub channel of the selected multi-view program content data and inquire a user whether to permit the deletion of the content data of the sub channel while keeping the content data of the main channel of the selected multi-view content, and (2) if the non multi-view program content data is selected by the selection unit, display information of the non multi-view program content data and inquire a user whether to permit the deletion of the selected non multi-view program content data;
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- a deletion unit configured to, (1) if the user permits the deletion of the content data of the sub channel while keeping the content data of the main channel of the selected multi-view content, delete content data of the sub channel included in the selected multi-view program content data from the storage unit, and (2) if the user permits the deletion of non multi-view program content data, delete the selected non multi-view program content data from the storage unit.
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A method for controlling a recording apparatus, the method comprising:
- recording program content data transmitted in a broadcast signal;
- storing the program content data in a storage unit;
- managing an available recording capacity of the storage unit;
- selecting, in a case where the available recording capacity is less than a predetermined amount, (1) a multi-view program content data broadcasted by a plurality of channels including content data associated with each other from among the program content data in the storage unit if there is the multi-view program content data in the storage unit, and (2) a non multi-view program content data if there is no multi-view program content data in the storage unit, wherein the multi-view program content data comprises content data of at least a main channel and a sub channel;
- displaying information of the main channel and the sub channel of the selected multi-view program content data and inquiring a user whether to permit the deletion of the content data of the sub channel while keeping the content data of the main channel of the selected multi-view content in a case where the multi-view program content data is selected by the selection unit, and displaying information of the non multi-view program content data and inquiring a user whether to permit the deletion of the selected non multi-view program content data in a case where the non multi-view program content data is selected by the selection unit;
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- deleting, in a case where the user permits the deletion of the content data of the sub channel while keeping the content data of the main channel of the selected multi-view content, content data of the sub channel included in the selected multi-view program content data from the storage unit, and deleting, in a case where the user permits the deletion of non multi-view program content data, the selected non multi-view program content data from the storage unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.