JP2010157272A - Dubbing management method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dubbing management method which achieves a dubbing setup change without limiting the degree of freedom in selection by a user. <P>SOLUTION: When an optical disk is not inserted in a recording and reproducing device 1 or when the optical disk does not have sufficient recording capacity for recording program contents, the program contents are video-recorded substitutionally in a hard disk, and information indicating substitutional video recording is registered in a list for dubbing. The list for dubbing in which this information is registered is displayed on a screen having a selection button whether dubbing is performed or not, and a selection button performing dubbing is selected. Thus, dubbing of the program contents substitutionally video recorded in the hard disk is performed for the optical disk. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a dubbing management method for dubbing from an HDD hard disk to an optical disk of an optical disk recorder, which is used for an optical disk recorder incorporating a fixed recording medium such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive).

In recent years, a DVD recorder with a built-in hard disk equipped with both an HDD and a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) recorder has been widely used as an apparatus for recording and reproducing contents.
This DVD recorder with a built-in hard disk can record content directly to a DVD. If a DVD is not inserted or if the recording capacity is insufficient, the DVD has a sufficient recording capacity after the content is recorded on the hard disk instead. And dubbing this DVD.
Also, the content recorded on the hard disk is dubbed to the DVD, since operations other than dubbing cannot be performed during the dubbing. Therefore, the content is recorded before going to bed or before going out and when there is no reserved recording.

A dubbing management method for dubbing content recorded on the hard disk to an optical disc is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-228707.
That is, Patent Document 1 describes the following.
When the dubbing content playback order control device receives a notification of the start time of the scheduled recording setting from the user, the dubbing content playback order control device determines whether or not the optical disk set by the recording destination medium identifier of the scheduled recording setting is mounted. If not, the alternative recording of the content is performed on the hard disk. Also, the dubbing content playback order control device updates or updates the AV content management information of the hard disk, creates or updates the scheduled recording content management information, and receives a dubbing permission notification to the optical disc of the content that has been subjected to alternative recording. Perform dubbing.

  Further, the dubbing content playback order control device, when the scheduled recording order recorded in the hard disk is different from the optical disc set in the scheduled recording setting, the order of the contents recorded in the scheduled recording content management information The AV content management information of the optical disc is updated so that Next, the dubbing content playback order control device updates the scheduled recording content management information in accordance with the updated AV content management information.

  Furthermore, the dubbing content playback order control device, when the scheduled recording content management information includes the alternative recording content and the optical disc is a rewritable optical disc, the alternative recording content is set to the optical disc set with the recording destination medium identifier. The time for dubbing is calculated, and dubbing is performed when dubbing is completed before the next scheduled recording starts.

On the other hand, a dubbing management method for dubbing content that has already been recorded on a hard disk to an optical disk is disclosed in Patent Document 2.
That is, Patent Document 2 describes the following.
The dubbing reservation device displays a selection screen for allowing the user to select content to be dubbed from content recorded on the hard disk, and displays a reservation screen for performing dubbing reservation on the content selected from this selection screen. Let The dubbing reservation device allows the user to specify the dubbing start time from the reservation screen, performs dubbing reservation, and performs dubbing to the optical disc when the dubbing start time comes. When there is a duplicate reservation, the dubbing reservation device displays a duplicate reservation notification screen and notifies the user of the duplicate reservation status.
JP 2005-328193 A JP 2005-167297 A

  However, in the dubbing management method described in Patent Document 1, dubbing can be performed on the optical disc set with the recording destination medium identifier, but the optical disc that has received notification of the start time of the scheduled recording setting Dubbing cannot be performed on optical discs different from the above. Further, in this dubbing management method, after calculating the time for dubbing to the optical disc set by the recording destination medium identifier, the dubbing source content is reproduced or deleted without performing dubbing, or the optical disc is reproduced or other These operations cannot be performed when it is desired to save on the optical disk or to reduce the recording rate of the dubbing process, and thus the degree of freedom of selection by the user is limited.

  Further, in the dubbing management method described in Patent Document 2, since it is necessary to determine detailed settings such as which contents are combined and in which recording mode when dubbing is set, the setting is troublesome. The problem of becoming.

  Therefore, the present invention solves the above-described problems, the dubbing setting is easy, the degree of freedom of user selection is not limited, and the setting can be changed even after the dubbing setting is performed. An object is to provide a possible dubbing management method.

In the first aspect of the present invention, it is determined whether or not a removable recording medium is inserted in a removable recording medium drive (9) in the recording / reproducing apparatus (1), and the removable recording medium is used for the removable recording medium. A first step of determining whether or not the removable recording medium has a recording capacity sufficient to record program content to be recorded when inserted in the drive (9);
When the removable recording medium is not inserted into the removable recording medium drive (9) or when the removable recording medium is inserted into the removable recording medium drive (9), the removable recording medium is sufficient for the recording. When the program content cannot be recorded on the removable recording medium, which is a case where the program content cannot be recorded, the program content to be recorded is replaced with a fixed recording medium in the recording / reproducing apparatus. A second step of recording;
A third step of registering in the dubbing list information indicating that the program content has been recorded as a substitute on the fixed recording medium;
A fourth step of displaying on the screen a selection button for selecting whether to perform dubbing of the program content registered in the dubbing list and the dubbing list;
The fifth step of dubbing the selected program content from the fixed recording medium to the removable recording medium when the selected program content registered in the dubbing list is selected to be dubbed by the selection button. A dubbing management method comprising: and dubbing management method is provided.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, the recording / reproducing apparatus (1) has only a fixed recording medium drive (8) for recording / reproducing the fixed recording medium, and the removable recording medium drive (9) The dubbing management method according to the first aspect of the present invention is provided outside the device (1).

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the setting of a dubbing is easy, the freedom degree of a user's selection is not restrict | limited, and even after performing a dubbing setting, the dubbing which can change a setting can be performed.

Hereinafter, a dubbing management method in each embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a recording / reproducing apparatus for carrying out the dubbing management method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining registration in the dubbing list.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the dubbing management method.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a list of dubbing lists that have been subjected to alternative recording.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen on which a message for which alternative recording has been performed is displayed on the monitor.

A recording / reproducing apparatus for carrying out the dubbing management method will be described with reference to FIG.
As shown in FIG. 1, a recording / reproducing apparatus 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention receives a digital broadcast and outputs a stream in which transport (TS) packets are mixed, and an output from the tuner 2. DEMUX (Demutiplexer) 3 that separates a plurality of packets included in the stream into audio packets, video packets, and data packets, and MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) compressed audio data included in the audio packets separated by DEMUX 3 And an audio decoder 4 that outputs digital audio information to a television monitor (not shown), and MPEG-compressed video data included in the video packet separated by the DEMUX 3 to demodulate the digital video information to a television monitor (not shown). And a video decoder unit 5 for outputting. There.

Furthermore, the recording / reproducing apparatus 1 combines OSD (On Screen Display) image data such as information relating to contents and information relating to the state of the device with digital video information output from the video decoder unit 5 and displays the resultant on a television monitor (not shown). A graphics unit 6 for encoding, an encoder unit 7 for modulating digital audio information and digital video information into a predetermined recording format, and dubbing the modulated digital audio information and digital video information to program content and an optical disc. A dubbing list in which a target program is registered is recorded on a hard disk, a program content recorded on the hard disk as a substitute and a hard disk drive (HDD) 8 that reproduces the dubbing list, and the above-described content is recorded on the optical disk. Or optical disk drive for playback It is equipped with a door.
As the optical disc, DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, or the like can be used. The hard disk drive may be attached to an external hard disk drive.

Furthermore, the recording / reproducing apparatus 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 10 that performs various processes of data transfer and recording / reproduction, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 11 that stores a dubbing control program for operating the CPU 10, and the CPU 10. Operation for inputting commands of a remote control and a main body operation button, and a RAM (Random Access Memory) 12 for temporarily storing a dubbing control program read out and stored in the ROM 11 and a dubbing list and program content recorded in the hard disk An input unit 13 and a bus 14 for performing these inputs and outputs are provided.
The CPU 10 operates in accordance with a dubbing control program once stored in the RAM 12. A command to the CPU 10 is given by the operation input unit 13.

First, the alternative recording to the hard disk will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS.
(Alternative recording to hard disk)
It is assumed that the program to be recorded is reserved.
In the following, in the alternative recording to the HDD 8 and the dubbing operation to the optical disc, a command is sent from the operation input unit 13 to the CPU 10, and the dubbing control program stored in the ROM 11 is once read by the CPU 10 into the RAM 12. This is performed according to the read dubbing control program.
The following steps are operations performed by the CPU 10.

As shown in FIG. 2, in S201, the CPU 10 determines whether it is a recording reservation start date and time. This determination is made at a time slightly before the start of the recording reservation at the recording reservation start date and time.
When the time just before the recording reservation start time is reached, in S202, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the optical disk is inserted in the optical disk drive 9, and if the optical disk is inserted in the optical disk drive 9, the optical disk is reserved. It is determined whether or not the program content is sufficient to record the program content.
If it is determined that an optical disk having a sufficient recording capacity is inserted in the optical disk drive 9, the CPU 10 causes the optical disk drive 9 to record on the optical disk in S205.

On the other hand, if the CPU 10 determines in S202 that the optical disk is not inserted into the optical disk drive 9 or the recording capacity of the optical disk is not sufficient, the recording destination medium is changed to a hard disk in S203, and dubbing is performed in S204. The program content is registered in the list, and the program content is alternatively recorded on the hard disk in S206.
As shown in FIG. 4, in the dubbing list, a plurality of pieces of program content information recorded as alternative recordings on the hard disk are registered.
On the screen of the TV monitor that displays the dubbing list, selection buttons ("Dubbing" button, "Dubbing" button) that can select whether or not to perform dubbing to the optical disc are set. .
In addition, information on the program content that has been dubbed to the optical disc is added with a display that deletes the program content that has been dubbed to the optical disc and recorded on the hard disk. For example, when program content information of program title B, which will be described later, is dubbed to an optical disc, “deletion after D” indicating deletion after dubbing is additionally registered in information indicating program title B in a plurality of program content information. The
In each of the plurality of program content information items registered in the dubbing list, a program title, a thumbnail image of the program, date and time, day of the week, recording mode DR (DR: direct mode), and recording time are registered.
Here, when no optical disc is inserted into the optical disc drive 9, or when an optical disc is inserted into the optical disc drive 9, but the optical disc does not have a sufficient recording capacity, program content cannot be recorded on the optical disc. The state is referred to as a recording disabled state.
That is, the program content is recorded on the hard disk as a substitute when the recording is disabled.

Next, dubbing from a hard disk to an optical disk will be described with reference to FIGS.
(Dubbing from hard disk to optical disk)
Here, it is assumed that the program content to be dubbed to the optical disc is the program content of the program title B registered in the dubbing list.
As shown in FIG. 3, the CPU 10 turns on the power of the recording / reproducing apparatus 1 in step S <b> 301 in accordance with the operation of turning on the power of the recording / reproducing apparatus 1 by the user's operation input unit 13. In S302, the CPU 10 determines whether or not there is alternative recording. If there is alternative recording in S303, the CPU 10 displays a message shown in FIG. 5 for informing the user on the screen of the television monitor. If there is no alternative recording, the process ends without displaying anything. On the screen of the television monitor, selection buttons (“display” button and “not display” button) as to whether or not to display the dubbing list are set.

When one of the selection buttons set on the TV monitor screen shown in FIG. 5 is pressed by the user's operation input unit 13, the user selects and determines “display” in S304. In step S305, the CPU 10 displays the dubbing list shown in FIG.
If “not display” is selected and determined, the CPU 10 ends without doing anything.

In S306, the user selects one or more program contents of a plurality of program contents registered in the dubbing list displayed on the TV monitor screen shown in FIG. , The program content of program title B is selected) to determine whether or not to perform dubbing.
If the CPU 10 determines that the dubbing is to be performed, in S307, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the optical disk is inserted into the optical disk drive 9, and if it is inserted, whether or not the recording capacity of the optical disk is sufficient. I do. If it is determined that the dubbing is not performed, the dubbing to the optical disc is not performed and is terminated as it is.
If the optical disk is not inserted into the optical disk drive 9 or if it is determined that the recording capacity is insufficient even if it is inserted, the CPU 10 inserts an optical disk having a sufficient recording capacity into the optical disk drive 9 at S308. Display a message on the TV monitor screen.

If an optical disk with a sufficient recording capacity has already been inserted into the optical disk drive 9, or if an optical disk with a sufficient recording capacity has been inserted into the optical disk drive 9 by the above-mentioned message, the CPU 10 Dubbing of the program content recorded as an alternative to the optical disc is executed.
After the dubbing is completed, the CPU 10 deletes the program content that has been substitute recorded on the hard disk and deletes the program content information from the dubbing list. This is the same state as when the optical disc was inserted into the optical disc drive 9 at the time of reservation.

As described above, according to the first embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of program content information recorded as substitutes on a hard disk is registered in a dubbing list that enables selection of whether or not dubbing to an optical disk is possible. Therefore, whether or not to perform dubbing to the optical disc can be determined by the user's free intention, and the degree of freedom of selection increases.
Note that the dubbing list displayed in S305 may be displayed when the power is turned on in S301.
In the first embodiment, the program content that has been recorded by substitution on the hard disk is deleted and the program content information is deleted from the dubbing list. However, even if a button for changing these settings is set on the screen of the television monitor good. Since the user's judgment is not always the same between recording reservation and dubbing, the type of optical disk is determined at the time of recording reservation, and the program content that has been recorded on the hard disk instead is deleted after dubbing. Both can be changed and executed. Further, it may be deleted from the dubbing list without performing dubbing.
Further, although the case where the alternative recording is performed on the hard disk has been described, the alternative recording may be performed on an external recording / playback apparatus prepared in advance.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
Since the recording / reproducing apparatus for explaining the second embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment, its explanation is omitted.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart for registering a recorded program in the dubbing candidate list in the dubbing management method according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a recorded program list.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a content operation processing screen.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart when dubbing is set.
FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a procedure after dubbing is completed.
In the second embodiment, the program contents recorded on the hard disk are displayed in advance on a screen that allows selection of dubbing candidates and processing according to the user's wishes is possible.

(Register to recorded program list)
Here, a case will be described in which the program content of the program title C in the recorded program (program content) list shown in FIG. 7 is selected and dubbed.
As shown in FIG. 6, in S601, the CPU 10 acquires program content information from the hard disk, and in S602, displays a recorded program list shown in FIG. 7 on a television monitor (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 7, in the recorded program list, a plurality of recorded program information (program content information) is displayed on the right side, and thumbnails of still images or moving images of the selected recorded program content are displayed on the left side. In the plurality of recorded program information, an icon indicating whether or not the recorded program content has been dubbed is displayed.
As the contents of the recorded program information, date / time, day of the week, program title, recording mode (DR), dubbing candidate (D candidate), and dubbed (D completed) are displayed.
The program content information of program title A displays an icon indicating that it has already been dubbed (D completed), and the program content information of program title B indicates that it is registered as a dubbing candidate (D candidate). An icon is displayed.
Since this recorded program information is information attached to the program content, when the program content is deleted, the information is deleted at the same time.
In S603, in accordance with the operation of the operation input unit 13 by the user, the CPU 10 selects the program content of the program title C in the recorded program list shown in FIG. 7, and the program content of the program title C shown in FIG. Are displayed on the screen of a television monitor that determines various processes. In S604, as one of the selection buttons set on the screen shown in FIG. 8 is pressed, the CPU 10 performs processing for registering dubbing candidates, deleting program contents, or reproducing.

When the user selects “dubbing candidate registration”, the CPU 10 disables the dubbing candidate information in the program content information of the program title C in S605. If the user selects “play”, in step S607, the CPU 10 performs a playback process of the program content of the program title C recorded on the hard disk.
If the user selects “delete program content”, in S606, the CPU 10 deletes the program content of the program title C recorded on the hard disk.
When the program content is deleted, the program content information is deleted.

Next, the case of dubbing the program content registered as a dubbing candidate from the recorded program list to the dubbing destination optical disc will be described with reference to FIG.
(Dubbing to optical disc)
As shown in FIG. 9, in step S <b> 901, the CPU 10 displays a recorded program list on the screen of the television monitor as the user operates the operation input unit 13.
In S902, the user selects program content that is a recorded program from the recorded program list shown in FIG. In S903, the CPU 10 highlights the program selected in S902. In S904, the recording mode of the program content selected in S902 is changed to a recording mode that is possible within the range of the remaining recording capacity of the dubbing destination optical disc.

In S905, the user selects whether to dub the program content whose combination has been determined. When adding the program content, the user returns to S902 and selects the program content to be added. In the case of dubbing with the current setting, in S906, the user selects whether to perform dubbing immediately or later. When dubbing is performed later, in S907, dubbing is performed by setting an execution time zone for executing dubbing using the dubbing execution time or the time when the recording / reproducing apparatus 1 is available or a priority setting to be executed. make a reservation.
If it is to be executed immediately, in S908, the CPU 10 determines whether or not an optical disk having a sufficient recording capacity is inserted in the optical disk drive 9.
If it is determined that an optical disk having a sufficient recording capacity is inserted in the optical disk drive 9, the CPU 10 causes the optical disk to be dubbed in S910.
If the optical disk is inserted into the optical disk drive 9 but the recording capacity of the optical disk is insufficient, or if it is determined that the optical disk is not inserted into the optical disk drive 9, the CPU 10 performs sufficient recording in S909. A message for urging the user to insert a capacity optical disk into the optical disk drive 9 is displayed on the screen of the television monitor.
When an optical disc having a sufficient recording capacity is inserted into the optical disc drive 9, or when an optical disc is inserted into the optical disc drive 9 according to the above-mentioned message, the CPU 10 loads the program content from the hard disc in S910. Execute diving to the optical disc.

Next, processing after dubbing is completed will be described with reference to FIG.
(Process after dubbing is completed)
As shown in FIG. 10, after dubbing is completed, in S1001, the CPU 10 cancels dubbing candidate registration from the program content information.
In step S <b> 1002, the CPU 10 determines whether to delete the program content recorded on the hard disk after dubbing based on the presence / absence of “delete after D” information indicating deletion after dubbing in the program content information.
If it is determined that the recorded program content is to be deleted from the hard disk, the CPU 10 deletes the program content from the hard disk in S1004. If it is determined that the recorded program content is not to be deleted from the hard disk, in S1003, the CPU 10 displays dubbing information such as history information such as dubbed, dubbing count, dubbing date and time, recording rate, and optical disc type. Add to content information.
Thereafter, in S1005, the CPU 10 turns off the power of the recording / reproducing apparatus 1.

As described above, according to the second embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to select a plurality of program contents registered in the recorded program list and display a screen for deleting, reproducing, or registering a dubbing candidate. Since it is displayed and the process according to the user's wish is performed, it is possible to prevent the degree of freedom of selection by the user from being limited.
Even after dubbing, the program content recorded on the hard disk can be deleted, or the content recorded on the hard disk can be left as it is and dubbing information to the optical disc can be registered in the program content information of the program content. Since the setting can be changed, the degree of freedom of selection by the user can be expanded.

Note that the registration of dubbing candidates performed in S605 of FIG. 6 may be performed when recording reservation is set.
Further, in S1001 of FIG. 10, the CPU 10 cancels the dubbing candidate of the program content information registered in the program content, but it may be left as it is.
In addition, when the power is turned on again after turning off the power in S1005, if the CPU 10 displays that the dubbing has been completed, the user will remember that the dubbing has been set. It is possible to recognize that the recording has ended and to confirm by reproduction, to set the next dubbing, or to take out the optical disk from the optical disk drive 9.

  Instead of the hard disk described in each of the above embodiments, a fixed recording medium such as an SSD (Solid State Drive) medium may be used, and a removable recording medium such as an SD card or a memory card may be used instead of the optical disk. The hard disk drive 8 and the optical disk drive 9 are provided in the recording / reproducing apparatus 1. However, the recording / reproducing apparatus 1 includes only the hard disk drive, and the optical disk drive 9 is installed outside the recording / reproducing apparatus 1. You may make it.

It is a block diagram which shows the recording / reproducing apparatus for enforcing the dubbing management method in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating registration to the list | wrist for dubbing. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the dubbing management method. It is a figure which shows the list list of the list | wrists for dubbing. It is a figure which shows that alternative video recording was performed. It is a flowchart which registers into the dubbing candidate list the recorded program of the dubbing management method in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the recorded program list list. It is a figure which shows a content operation processing screen. It is a flowchart at the time of dubbing setting. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure after dubbing is complete | finished.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Recording / reproducing apparatus, 2 ... Tuner, 3 ... DEMUX, 4 ... Audio decoder part, 5 ... Video decoder part, 6 ... Graphics part, 7 ... Encoder part, 8 ... Hard disk drive, 9 ... Optical disk drive, 10 ... CPU 11 ... ROM, 12 ... RAM, 13 ... operation input unit, 14 ... bus

Claims (2)

It is determined whether or not a removable recording medium is inserted into a removable recording medium drive in the recording / reproducing apparatus, and the removable recording medium is recorded when the removable recording medium is inserted into the removable recording medium drive. A first step of determining whether the recording capacity is sufficient to record the target program content;
When the removable recording media is not inserted into the removable recording media drive, or the removable recording media is inserted into the removable recording media drive, the removable recording media does not have the sufficient recording capacity. A second step of substituting recording of the program content to be recorded on the fixed recording medium in the recording / reproducing apparatus when the program content cannot be recorded on the removable recording medium. ,
A third step of registering in the dubbing list information indicating that the program content has been recorded as a substitute on the fixed recording medium;
A fourth step of displaying on the screen a selection button for selecting whether to perform dubbing of the program content registered in the dubbing list and the dubbing list;
The fifth step of dubbing the selected program content from the fixed recording medium to the removable recording medium when the selected program content registered in the dubbing list is selected to be dubbed by the selection button. And a dubbing management method comprising:   The recording / reproducing apparatus includes only a fixed recording medium drive for recording and reproducing the fixed recording medium, and the removable recording medium drive is disposed outside the recording / reproducing apparatus. 2. A dubbing management method according to 1.

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