Sony Corporation

Junji Oiwa

Hiroshi Takagi

Hodaka Irikuchi

While viewing and listening to AV data, other AV data is converted and transferred to a reproducing terminal. A recorder has two decoding parts as a decoding unit of AV data on a recording medium. AV data which was decoded in one of the decoding parts is supplied to a monitor device. When there is a transfer request for AV data, in accordance with a schedule which is formulated based on a transfer request list and a programmed picture recording list, AV data in the transfer request list is decoded in the other one of the decoding parts, encoded in an encoding part, converted into new AV data, and recorded in the recording medium. When a connection to the reproducing terminal is detected, the new AV data on the recording medium is transferred to the reproducing terminal. Since it has two decoding parts, it is possible to convert other AV data into new AV data while viewing and listening to AV data on the monitor device.

Data recording apparatus, data transfer method, data transfer program and recording medium, and data transfer system

The present invention aims to certainly use an electronic program guide. According to the present invention, a switch circuit partfor connecting a first tunerand a second tunersthat take in a television signal Son plural channels including a program guide providing channel and select one of them, to a first and a second signal processing systemsandthat perform predetermined processing to the television signal S, and a VBI slicerthat extracts an electronic program guide from the television signal Son the program guide providing channel, is controlled so that the first and the second signal processing systemsandthat simultaneously perform predetermined different processing to the above one television signal S, are collectively connected to one of the first tunerand the second tuner. Thereby, even in the case where predetermined plural different processing is simultaneously performed to one television signal S, the first or the second tunerorcan be kept for selecting the program guide providing channel, and an electronic program guide can be certainly obtained. Thus, a recording/reproducing apparatus capable of certainly using an electronic program can be accomplished.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Junji Oiwa