Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Editing of stored information
Reexamination Certificate
1998-09-11
2001-09-25
Edun, Muhammad (Department: 2651)
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Editing of stored information
C369S047130
Reexamination Certificate
active
06295267
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a digital signal recording apparatus that allows a program reproduced from a Compact Disc (hereinafter referred to as CD) to be recorded to a Mini Disc (trademark, hereinafter referred to as MD), a recording method thereof, a remote controlling apparatus for use therewith, a remote controlling method thereof, and a dubbing system for use therewith, in particular, to a recording operation of character information corresponding to a program.
2. Description of the Related Art
A magnetic optical disc apparatus that records a music program and so forth on a magnetic optical disc such as an MD is known. A U-TOC (User Table Of Content) area for managing information such as record position, record date/time, and title name concerned with a recorded program is formed in the inner periphery of such a magnetic optical disc. The U-TOC area is structured as pages. In other words, the U-TOC area has a plurality of sectors. Next, an example of the structure of the U-TOC area will be described.
The U-TOC area is composed of for example 36 sectors. Sector 0 is used to manage start/end addresses of a main program recorded on the magnetic optical disc and start/end addresses of a recordable area thereof. Sector 1 is used to manage a title name of a main program recorded on the magnetic optical disc and a title name of the magnetic optical disc. When audio data is recorded on the magnetic optical disc, a title name is a program name. In addition, a title name of the magnetic optical disc is an album name or a performer's name.
Sector 2 is used to manage record date/time of a program. Sector 4 is used to manage Kanji characters, Hiragana characters, and Katakana characters (these are all Japanese character formats) corresponding to the title name (English characters) of Sector 1. Sectors 3 and 5 to 36 are reserved for future expansions.
Before a program recorded on the magnetic optical disc is reproduced, information is reproduced from the U-TOC area. The reproduced information is stored in a predetermined storing means such as a DRAM of the apparatus in such a manner that the reproduced information correlates with each program recorded on the magnetic optical disc. When a desired program is reproduced, a title corresponding thereto is read from the memory and displayed on a displaying portion.
In the above-described conventional magnetic optical disc apparatus, to designate character information such as a title name and an artist name corresponding to a program as U-TOC information, the user should input such character information. For example, the user should operate the jog dial knob so as to vary for example alphabetic characters and input desired characters one by one. After having completed the input operation for one program, the user should perform the similar operation for another program. Thus, such a character input operation is troublesome for the user.
Since the character information recorded in sector 1 of the U-TOC area correlates with the character information recorded in sector 4 (in other words, the relation of original information and translated information such as English (alphabetic characters) and Japanese (Katakana characters), even if character information that is recorded in one sector is similar to character information that is input to another sector, similar information should be redundantly input. Thus, such an apparatus is inconvenient for the user.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a digital signal recording apparatus that receives character information from another apparatus and records the received character information to a management area of a record medium so as to allow the character input operation to be simplified and the user to edit character information received from the other apparatus, a method thereof, a remote controlling apparatus for use therewith, a method thereof, and a dubbing system for use therewith.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a digital signal recording apparatus that records character information received from another apparatus to a plurality of management areas of a record medium in a plurality of formats at a time, a method thereof, a remote controlling apparatus for use therewith, a method thereof, a dubbing system for use therewith.
A first aspect of the present invention is a digital signal recording apparatus, comprising a receiving means for receiving a character string corresponding to a program to be transmitted, an editing means for editing the character string received by the receiving means, and a recording means for recording the character string edited by the editing means to a record medium in such a manner that the character string corresponds to the program.
A second aspect of the present invention is a digital signal recording method, comprising the steps of (a) receiving a character string corresponding to a program being transmitted, (b) displaying the character string received at step (a), (c) editing the character string displayed at step (b), (d) recording the character string edited at step (c) in such a manner that the character string corresponds to the program.
A third aspect of the present invention is a remote controlling apparatus, comprising a receiving means for receiving a character string corresponding to a program received from a reproducing apparatus, a storing means for storing the character string received by the receiving means, a displaying means for displaying the character string stored by the storing means, an editing means for editing the character string displayed by the displaying means, a transmitting means for transmitting the character string edited by the editing means to a recording apparatus.
A fourth aspect of the present invention is a remote controlling method, comprising the steps of (a) receiving a character string corresponding to a program transmitted from a reproducing apparatus, (b) storing the character string received at step (a), (c) displaying the character string stored at step (b), (d) editing the character string displayed at step (c), and (e) transmitting the character string edited at step (d) to a recording apparatus.
A fifth aspect of the present invention is a dubbing system, comprising a reproducing apparatus having a reproducing means for reproducing a program and a character string corresponding thereto, and a transmitting means for transmitting the program and the character string reproduced by the reproducing means, an operating apparatus having a receiving means for receiving the character string transmitted from the transmitting means of the reproducing apparatus, a storing means for storing the character string received by the receiving means, a displaying means for displaying the character string storing by the storing means, an editing means for editing the character string displayed by the displaying means, and a transmitting means for transmitting the character string edited by the editing means, and a recording apparatus having a receiving means for receiving the program transmitted from the transmitting means of the reproducing apparatus and the character string transmitted from the transmitting means of the operating apparatus, and a recording means for recording the program and the character string received by the receiving means.
According to the present invention, when a program reproduced by a reproducing apparatus such as a CD player to a recording apparatus such as an MD recorder/player, a character string corresponding to the program received from the reproducing apparatus can be edited by an editing means. The edited character string is recorded to the recording apparatus in such a manner that the character string corresponds to the program. Thus, a character string that is recorded to the recording apparatus does not depend on a character string received from the reproducing apparatus. Consequently, the user can change a character string in a desired format.
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Akiyama Motohiko
Takaku Yoshiyuki
Yamaguchi Hiroshi
Edun Muhammad
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
Sony Corporation
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