Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kouji Matsubara

Kiyoshi Takeda

Masahiko Kajitani

Masumi Hirose

Etsuji Shuda

Koji Isono

The desired program information are read by an optical bar code reading section from a program medium containing program information for automatic broadcast program recording, such as, channels, dates, start times and end times in bar code form. After the program information thus read have been temporarily stored in a program memory section, a transfer switch is operated so that the program information stored in the program memory section are converted to infrared remote control signals and are then transmitted in a wireless manner to an electronic equipment (e.g., a video tape recorder) to be controlled, thereby recording the program for the recording of the desired broadcast program.

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Moriguchi, Japan

Kouji Matsubara