发明授权
- 专利标题: Recorded program viewing support method
- 专利标题(中): 录制节目观看支持方式
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申请号: US09647449申请日: 2000-11-17
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公开(公告)号: US06801713B1公开(公告)日: 2004-10-05
- 发明人: Yuichi Yagawa , Hiromi Ukai , Akira Tanaka , Hideo Nishijima , Hitoaki Owashi
- 申请人: Yuichi Yagawa , Hiromi Ukai , Akira Tanaka , Hideo Nishijima , Hitoaki Owashi
- 主分类号: H04N591
- IPC分类号: H04N591
摘要:
A support method for helping the user find a desired program from a collection of recorded television programs easily and quickly, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using this method. The recorded program viewing support system, when recording a television program, records electronic program information on the program, classifies the electronic program information according to predefined program category criteria, and successfully assigns predefined category numbers (recording channels) to the program to be recorded. Before the user views a recorded program, the user specifies the number of the recorded channel. A recorded channel number is allocated with a category item and hence the user can easily know the contents of the recorded programs. The user can change the channel number successively or directly specify it by using a remote controller to find a desired program easily and quickly. When disk media such as HDD and DVD-RAM are used as a storage in particular, the recorded programs can be randomly accessed allowing the user to zap through recorded programs.