Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Ichiro Higuchi

Shinji Suzuki

Masayoshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Suzuki

Eiji Muramatsu

Hidehiro Ishii

Yuji Shimizu

Takashi Irisawa

Takayoshi Noguchi

An information recording apparatus for recording record information onto a record medium, on which (i) a plurality of information groups each comprising one series of the record information and (ii) management information including positional information indicating a recorded area of each of the information groups are recordable, is provided with: a detecting device for detecting the management information, which is recorded in advance on the record medium, from the record medium; a recording device for newly recording the record information onto the record medium; an outputting device for outputting an identification information to identify the information groups, which are recorded in advance on the record medium, on the basis of the detected management information while the recording device is newly recording the record information; a specifying device for specifying an erasable information from among the information groups which are identified by the outputted identification information while the recording device is newly recording the record information; and a controlling device for controlling the recording device to newly record the record information to a recordable area, which includes the recorded area of the specified erasable information as well as a non-recorded area where the record information is not recorded, of the record medium on the basis of the positional information included in the detected management information.

Information recording apparatus

A desired catch-up time at which reproduction started after a start of recording of input information catches up the recording is set. Recording start time, present time and recording end time are detected. A rate of the reproduction necessary to catch up the recording at the set catch-up time is determined recording start time, present time, and recording end time. The recorded information is reproduced at a determined rate until the set catch-up time.

Information recording and reproducing system

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Ichiro Higuchi