Pioneer Display Products Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Kazutomo Watanabe

Tsutomu Takahashi

Gaku Yamamura

Kenichiro Tada

Ichiro Miyake

Yasuyuki Noda

Masayoshi Murayama

Hiroshi Kida

Tsutomu Ohtani

Masaaki Saito

Kunihiro Minoshima

Tsuyoshi Hasebe

Masao Higuchi

Ryuichiro Morioka

Katsutoshi Inagaki

Yasuo Shirosaki

Yoshitaka Tanaka

A method for reserving recording and viewing a broadcast program on a display screen includes the steps of extracting a broadcast program timetable; simultaneously displaying the broadcast program timetable and a viewing reservation timetable; waiting for a selection input to select a broadcast program on the display screen; waiting for an allocation input to allocate a selected program into the viewing reservation timetable; and generating recording instruction to instruct recording of the selected program and reproduction reservation instruction to instruct reproduction of the selected program at a time corresponding to a position at which the selected program is allocated in the viewing reservation timetable.

Program recording and viewing reservation system and method thereof

An information recording and reproducing apparatus with a ring buffer, in which user can know a state of the ring buffer in a real-time manner and a monitoring method of the ring buffer. A ring buffer monitor image signal is generated which indicates an image showing a relative positional relation of a current recording position and a current reproducing position in the ring buffer.

Information recording and reproducing apparatus with a ring buffer and method for monitoring ring buffer

Disclosed is an apparatus for recording and reproducing information and an information reproducing method in which the reproducing operation can be restarted from a position where reproduction was interrupted. The restart is possible for all of information contents recorded on a recording medium and without the need of troublesome operations. For this purpose, reproduction history information representing a reproduction history of each of the information contents recorded on the recording medium is stored in a management memory.

Apparatus for recording and reproducing information and information reproducing method

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Kazutomo Watanabe