JP2007288557A - Hard disk recorder - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time and effort for a user to dub TV programs with the same title in a recording medium and to delete the dubbed TV programs from a HDD when the TV programs with the same title recorded in the HDD are dubbed in a hard disk recorder. <P>SOLUTION: A microcomputer for control extracts TV programs with the same title as that of a TV program selected by the user from a recorded program list (S3) and executes dubbing of the extracted TV programs (S6). Then, when all of the TV programs of the same title are dubbed (YES in S7), the microcomputer for control reads attributes of the dubbed TV programs, when the attributes are copy-once attributes (YES in S12), deletes the TV programs from the HDD. Even when the attributes are not the copy-once attributes (NO in S12), when the user selects "delete" (YES in S15), the TV programs are deleted. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a hard disk recorder, and more particularly to a dubbing technique for a recording medium.

  Conventionally, a hard disk (hereinafter referred to as HDD) for recording a television (hereinafter referred to as TV) program and a recording medium such as a DVD-R (Digital Versatile Disc-Recordable) can be recorded. And a hard disk recorder capable of recording a copy of a TV program recorded on an HDD on a DVD-R or the like (hereinafter referred to as dubbing). When dubbing a TV program onto a DVD-R or the like using this type of hard disk recorder, the user may continuously dubb a TV program with the same title. Specifically, for example, dubbing to a DVD-R is continued from the first episode to the tenth episode of a TV program whose title is “Continuous Drama A”.

  FIG. 6 shows an example of a processing procedure when dubbing a TV program with the same title recorded on the HDD using a conventional hard disk recorder onto a DVD-R. First, a recorded program list showing a list of TV programs recorded on the HDD is displayed on a television or the like by the user (S101), and a DVD-R for dubbing a TV program is set in the mounting portion of the hard disk recorder (S102). ), A TV program to be dubbed on the DVD-R, for example, the first episode with the title “Continuous Drama A” is selected from the recorded program list (S103). Then, the hard disk recorder compares the recordable capacity of the DVD-R with the data capacity of the TV program selected by the user, and as a result, the TV program can be further dubbed onto the DVD-R (S104). YES), the process of S103 is repeated (for example, the user selects the second episode of “Continuous Drama A”). On the other hand, when the TV program cannot be further dubbed onto the DVD-R (NO in S104), the hard disk recorder performs dubbing (S105).

  When the user has dubbed all the TV programs with the same title (YES in S106), the user selects a dubbed TV program among the TV programs recorded on the HDD (S107), and the hard disk recorder is selected by the user. The TV program is deleted from the HDD (S108). On the other hand, if the user has not dubbed all of the TV programs with the same title (NO in S106), the processing from S102 onward is repeated.

  As described above, in the conventional hard disk recorder, when a TV program with the same title is dubbed to a DVD-R or the like and then the dubbed TV program is deleted from the HDD, the user can delete the TV program with the same title from the recorded program list. Since it is necessary to perform an operation of deleting the dubbed TV program from the HDD after repeating the process of selecting the TV program in order to delete the TV program, there is a problem that it takes time for the user.

  On the other hand, in the invention of Patent Document 1, among the plurality of TV programs with the same title recorded in the HDD, the total data amount of the TV program with the same title does not exceed the data amount that can be recorded on the DVD. This is a hard disk recorder capable of efficiently dubbing a TV program onto a DVD by reading out the TV program of the same title from the HDD and dubbing it onto a DVD.

  The invention of Patent Document 2 includes an HDD capable of recording TV programs and a dubbing unit capable of performing dubbing on a DVD, and performs recording reservation with recording conditions such as CM skip. This is a hard disk recorder that records the TV program on the HDD and then applies the conditions at the time of recording reservation when the TV program is dubbed to the DVD.

  In the invention of Patent Document 3, the recording area of the HDD is divided into a plurality of divided areas in units of 4.7 GB which is the maximum recording capacity of an optical disk such as a DVD, and information not exceeding each divided area is recorded. Thus, this is a hard disk recorder for dubbing information of each divided area to a DVD as it is.

However, in the inventions described in Patent Documents 1 to 3, the user can reduce the trouble of dubbing a TV program with the same title onto a DVD-R or the like, and dubbing is performed after this dubbing. It is not possible to reduce the trouble of performing an operation of deleting the TV program that has been deleted from the HDD.
JP 2006-5632 A JP 2005-347825 A Utility model registration No. 3097988

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. When a TV program with the same title recorded on the HDD is dubbed to the recording medium, the user can use the TV program with the same title as the recording medium. It is an object of the present invention to provide a hard disk recorder that can reduce the trouble of dubbing and reduce the trouble of performing an operation of deleting a dubbed TV program from the HDD after the dubbing.

  In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention is directed to a hard disk for recording a TV program connected to a monitor device capable of displaying a television (hereinafter referred to as TV) program and the like. A mounting unit for mounting a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) capable of recording data such as the TV program, writing means for recording data on the DVD mounted in the mounting unit, and a mounting unit mounted on the mounting unit A dubbing means for recording a copy of the TV program recorded on the hard disk (hereinafter referred to as dubbing) on the DVD; a deleting means for deleting the TV program recorded on the hard disk; A hard disk recorder comprising: control means for controlling the hard disk TV program extracting means for extracting a TV program having the same title from a recorded program list showing a list of the recorded TV programs, and the DVD necessary for recording the TV program extracted by the TV program extracting means. A number calculating unit for calculating the number of copies, and an attribute reading unit for reading whether the attribute of the TV program is a copy-once attribute, and the control unit is configured to record the TV program to be dubbed to the DVD by a user. When selected from the program list, the TV program extraction means is used to extract the TV program having the same title as the TV program selected by the user from the recorded program list, and the number calculation means is used to The number of DVDs necessary for recording the TV program extracted by the TV program extracting means is calculated, and the monitor The TV program extracted by the TV program extraction means by the writing means using the dubbing means and the control means sets the DVD of the number calculated by the user on the mounting unit. After the dubbing to the DVD, the control means reads the attribute of the TV program dubbed to the DVD using the attribute reading means, and when the attribute of the TV program is a copy-once attribute as a result of reading. Deletes the TV program from the hard disk using the deleting means, and if the attribute of the TV program is not a copy-once attribute as a result of reading, the control means deletes the TV program dubbed to the DVD. When a message prompting selection of whether or not to delete is displayed on the monitor device, and the user selects to delete the TV program It is intended to remove the TV program from the hard disk by using the deletion means.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hard disk for recording the TV program, connected to a monitor device capable of displaying a television (hereinafter referred to as TV) program, etc., the TV program, etc. A mounting section for mounting a recording medium capable of recording the data, a writing unit for recording data on the recording medium mounted on the mounting section, and the hard disk on the recording medium mounted on the mounting section. Dubbing means for recording a copy of the TV program recorded on the hard disk (hereinafter referred to as dubbing), a deleting means for deleting the TV program recorded on the hard disk from the hard disk, and a control means for controlling each part of the apparatus. The same from a recorded program list showing a list of the TV programs recorded on the hard disk TV program extracting means for extracting a TV program of the title is further provided, and the control means uses the TV program extracting means when the TV program to be dubbed to the recording medium is selected from the recorded program list by the user. The TV program having the same title as the TV program selected by the user is extracted from the recorded program list, and the control means is extracted by the TV program extraction means by the writing means using the dubbing means. After the TV program is dubbed to the recording medium, the TV program dubbed to the recording medium is deleted from the hard disk using the deleting means.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the hard disk recorder according to the second aspect, the number calculating means for calculating the number of the recording media necessary for recording the TV program extracted by the TV program extracting means. In addition, when the TV program to be dubbed to the recording medium is selected by the user from the recorded program list, the control means uses the TV program extraction means to use the same title as the TV program selected by the user. After the TV program is extracted from the recorded program list, the number calculation unit is used to calculate the number of recording media required to record the TV program extracted by the TV program extraction unit. It is displayed on the monitor device.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when a user selects a TV program to be dubbed to a DVD from the recorded program list, the TV program having the same title as the TV program selected by the user is extracted from the recorded program list. After the extracted TV program is dubbed to a DVD, the attribute of the TV program dubbed to the DVD is read. If the attribute of the TV program is a copy-once attribute, the TV program is deleted from the hard disk. Even if the attribute of the TV program is not a copy-once attribute, if the user selects deletion of the TV program, the TV program is deleted from the hard disk. Thereby, when dubbing a TV program of the same title recorded on the hard disk to a DVD, the user can reduce the trouble of dubbing the TV program of the same title to the DVD, and after this dubbing, It is possible to reduce the trouble of performing the operation of deleting the dubbed TV program from the hard disk. Further, since the number of recording media necessary for recording the TV program extracted for dubbing is displayed on the monitor device, the user can easily know the number of recording media necessary for dubbing.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the user selects a TV program to be dubbed to the recording medium from the recorded program list, the TV program having the same title as the TV program selected by the user is extracted from the recorded program list. After the extracted TV program is dubbed to the recording medium, the TV program dubbed to the recording medium is deleted from the hard disk. As a result, when the TV program with the same title recorded on the hard disk is dubbed to the recording medium, the user can reduce the trouble of dubbing the TV program with the same title onto the recording medium. Later, it is possible to reduce the trouble of performing an operation of deleting the dubbed TV program from the hard disk.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, the number of recording media required to record the extracted TV program can be calculated and displayed on the monitor device. Thereby, the user can easily know the number of recording media required for dubbing.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 includes a television 3 (monitor device) capable of displaying a television (hereinafter referred to as TV) program and the like and a hard disk recorder 1 connected to the television 3 via a transmission cable 2 (cable). FIG. 2 shows the internal structure of the hard disk recorder 1. The hard disk recorder 1 is operated by a remote controller 4 having buttons and the like for the user to perform operations such as selecting a TV program. The television 3 receives the TV program output from the hard disk recorder 1, and outputs a display 31 that displays video and the like reproduced based on the received TV program, and audio reproduced based on the received TV program. And a speaker 32.

  The hard disk recorder 1 includes a tuner 14 that receives a TV program via an antenna 6, and a DVD-R5 (Digital Versatile Disc-Recordable; DVD and recording medium indicated in claims) capable of recording data such as a TV program. , A hard disk 16 for recording a TV program (hereinafter referred to as HDD), an output unit 15 for outputting TV program data to the transmission cable 2 (cable), and a control for controlling each part of the apparatus Microcomputer 18 (control means).

  In addition, the hard disk recorder 1 is mounted on the ROM 19 that stores the operation program of the control microcomputer 18, the remote control signal receiving unit 17 that receives a signal transmitted from the remote controller 4 and outputs the signal to the control microcomputer 18, and the mounting unit 11. A reading unit 12 that reads data from the DVD-R 5 that has been read, and a writing unit 13 (writing means) that records data on the DVD-R 5 mounted on the mounting unit 11.

  The control microcomputer 18 has a dubbing means for recording a copy of the TV program recorded on the HDD 16 (hereinafter referred to as dubbing) on the DVD-R 5 mounted on the mounting unit 11, and the TV program recorded on the HDD 16 on the HDD 16. And a recorded program list generating means for creating a recorded program list indicating a list of TV programs recorded on the HDD 16. Further, the control microcomputer 18 extracts a TV program extracting unit that extracts a TV program having the same title from the recorded program list generated by the recorded program list generating unit, and records the TV program extracted by the TV program extracting unit. It further functions as a copy number calculating means for calculating the required number of DVD-R5 and an attribute reading means for reading whether or not the attribute of the TV program is a copy once attribute that allows copying only once.

  Next, the recorded program list generated by the control microcomputer 18 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows an example of the recorded program list 7. As shown in FIG. 3, the recorded program list 7 has a number (No.) 71, a title 72, a recording date and time 73, a data size 74, and other information 75.

  Next, a process when dubbing a TV program of the same title recorded on the HDD 16 onto the DVD-R 5 will be described with reference to FIG. First, when the user operates the remote controller 4 to display the recorded program list, the control microcomputer 18 displays the recorded program list on the television 3 (S1), and the user operates the remote controller 4 to select a TV program to be dubbed. When selected (S2), the control microcomputer 18 extracts a TV program having the same title as the selected TV program from the recorded program list (S3), and dubbing is performed from the total data size of the TV programs extracted in S3. The required number of DVD-R5 is calculated (S4), and the number of DVD-R5 is displayed on the television 3.

  When the user sets the DVD-R 5 in the mounting unit 11 (S5), the control microcomputer 18 performs dubbing of the TV program on the DVD-R 5 set in the mounting unit 11 (S6). When all of the TV programs with the same title are dubbed on the DVD-R 5 set in the mounting unit 11 (YES in S7), the control microcomputer 18 performs a TV program deletion process (S8) and ends the process. On the other hand, when all the TV programs having the same title cannot be dubbed (NO in S7), the processes from S5 onward are repeated. Details of the process of S8 will be described later.

  Next, the TV program data deletion process shown in FIG. 4 will be described with reference to FIG. First, the control microcomputer 18 reads the attribute of the TV program dubbed on the DVD-R 5 (S11). As a result, if the read attribute is the copy-once attribute (YES in S12), the TV program is deleted from the HDD 16. (S13) The TV program deletion process is terminated.

  On the other hand, if the read attribute is not copy-once (NO in S12), the control microcomputer 18 displays on the television 3 a message prompting selection of whether or not to delete the TV program dubbed on the DVD-R 5 (S14). If the user selects to delete this TV program (YES in S15), the control microcomputer 18 performs the same process as in S13 and ends the TV program deletion process. On the other hand, if the user has not selected to delete the TV program (NO in S15), the control microcomputer 18 ends the TV program deletion process without performing the process of S13.

  As described above, according to the hard disk recorder 1 according to the present embodiment, when the user selects a TV program to be dubbed to a DVD from the recorded program list, the control microcomputer 18 is the same as the TV program selected by the user. The TV program of the title is extracted from the recorded program list, and after the extracted TV program is dubbed to the DVD-R5, the attribute of the TV program dubbed to the DVD-R5 is read. As a result, the read attribute is a copy once attribute. In this case, the TV program is deleted from the HDD 16. Even if the read attribute is not a copy-once attribute, if the user selects to delete the dubbed TV program, the TV program is deleted from the HDD 16. Therefore, when the TV program with the same title recorded in the HDD 16 is dubbed to the DVD-R5, the user can reduce the trouble when dubbing the TV program with the same title to the DVD-R5. After this, it is possible to reduce the trouble of performing an operation of deleting the dubbed TV program from the HDD 16.

  When the attribute of the TV program dubbed on the DVD-R 5 is a copy-once attribute, the control microcomputer 18 deletes the TV program from the HDD 16. Therefore, the TV program having the copy-once attribute can be deleted from the HDD 16 without any special operation by the user. In addition, as described above, the TV program after dubbing can be easily deleted from the HDD 16 to reduce the frequency of the HDD 16 having insufficient free space. It is possible to reduce the frequency of recording failures due to lack of capacity.

  In addition, this invention is not restricted to the structure of the said embodiment, A various deformation | transformation is possible in the range which does not change the meaning of invention. For example, in the above embodiment, a DVD-R5 is shown as a recording medium to be attached to the attachment unit 11, but the recording medium is not limited to this, and is not limited to this. A recording medium such as a CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) may be used. In the above embodiment, when the dubbed TV program attribute is copy-once, the control microcomputer performs the process of deleting the dubbed TV program from the HDD. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the attribute arbitrarily specified by the user is used. Accordingly, the control microcomputer may perform arbitrary processing.

1 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of a hard disk recorder according to an embodiment of the present invention and a television connected to the hard disk recorder. The block diagram which shows the internal structure of the said hard-disk recorder. The figure which shows the example of the video recording program list which the microcomputer for control of the said hard-disk recorder produces | generates. The flowchart which shows the dubbing process of the TV program of the same title in the said hard disk recorder. The flowchart which shows the deletion process of TV program in FIG. The flowchart which shows the dubbing process of the TV program of the same title in the conventional hard disk recorder.

Explanation of symbols

1 Hard disk recorder 2 Transmission cable (cable)
3 TV (monitor device)
5 DVD (recording medium)
7 List of recorded programs 11 Mounting section 13 Writing section (writing means)
16 HDD (hard disk)
18 Control microcomputer (control means, dubbing means, deleting means, TV program extracting means, number calculating means, attribute reading means)

Claims (3)

It is connected via a cable to a monitor device capable of displaying a television (hereinafter referred to as TV) program, etc.
A hard disk for recording the TV program;
A mounting unit for mounting a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) capable of recording data such as the TV program;
Writing means for recording data on the DVD mounted on the mounting unit;
Dubbing means for recording a copy of the TV program recorded on the hard disk (hereinafter referred to as dubbing) on the DVD mounted on the mounting unit;
Deleting means for deleting the TV program recorded on the hard disk from the hard disk;
In a hard disk recorder provided with a control means for controlling each part of the device,
TV program extracting means for extracting a TV program having the same title from a recorded program list showing a list of the TV programs recorded on the hard disk;
A number calculating means for calculating the number of DVDs necessary for recording the TV program extracted by the TV program extracting means;
Attribute reading means for reading whether or not the attribute of the TV program is a copy-once attribute;
The control means includes
When the TV program to be dubbed to the DVD is selected by the user from the recorded program list, the TV program having the same title as the TV program selected by the user is selected using the TV program extracting means. Extracted from
Using the number calculating means, calculating the number of DVDs necessary for recording the TV program extracted by the TV program extracting means, and displaying it on the monitor device;
The user sets the calculated number of DVDs in the mounting unit, and the control means dubbes the TV program extracted by the TV program extraction means onto the DVD by the writing means using the dubbing means. rear,
The control means reads the attribute of the TV program dubbed to the DVD using the attribute reading means, and when the attribute of the TV program is a copy-once attribute as a result of reading, the control means uses the deletion means. , Delete the TV program from the hard disk,
As a result of reading, if the attribute of the TV program is not a copy-once attribute, the control means displays a message prompting the user to select whether or not to delete the TV program dubbed on the DVD on the monitor device. When the deletion of the TV program is selected by the above, the TV program is deleted from the hard disk using the deletion means. It is connected via a cable to a monitor device capable of displaying a television (hereinafter referred to as TV) program, etc.
A hard disk for recording the TV program;
A mounting unit for mounting a recording medium capable of recording data such as the TV program;
Writing means for recording data on the recording medium mounted on the mounting unit;
Dubbing means for recording a copy of the TV program recorded on the hard disk (hereinafter referred to as dubbing) on the recording medium mounted on the mounting unit;
Deleting means for deleting the TV program recorded on the hard disk from the hard disk;
In a hard disk recorder provided with a control means for controlling each part of the device,
TV program extracting means for extracting TV programs with the same title from a recorded program list showing a list of the TV programs recorded on the hard disk,
The control means includes
When the user selects the TV program to be dubbed to the recording medium from the recorded program list, the TV program having the same title as the TV program selected by the user is selected using the TV program extracting unit. Extract from the list,
The control means dubbes the TV program extracted by the TV program extraction means by the writing means using the dubbing means to the recording medium, and then deletes the TV program dubbed to the recording medium. A hard disk recorder which is deleted from the hard disk using means. A sheet number calculating means for calculating the number of the recording media necessary for recording the TV program extracted by the TV program extracting means;
The control means includes
When the user selects the TV program to be dubbed to the recording medium from the recorded program list, the TV program having the same title as the TV program selected by the user is selected using the TV program extracting unit. After extracting from the list,
3. The number of the recording media necessary for recording the TV program extracted by the TV program extracting means is calculated using the number calculating means and displayed on the monitor device. Hard disk recorder as described in.

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