Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshikazu Kodo

Satoshi Kondo

Shinichi Tanaka

Hiroyuki Iitsuka

Yasushi Ayaki

Yoshiki Kuno

Yoshitaka Yaguchi

There is a PSI receipt waiting time of two seconds or so from a start of decoding of an MPEG transport stream to actual display of AV data. There are provided first means of recordingfor recording a predetermined signal discretely including additional information of a program; means of controlling recordsfor having said predetermined signal recorded by first means of recording; means of controlling reproductionfor having said predetermined signal reproduced from said first means of recording; means of detecting PSIfor detecting program specific information (PSI) from said predetermined signal; and means of adding PSIfor adding said PSI to said predetermined signal.

Recording and reproducing apparatus, MPEG image stream recording and reproducing

An interface circuit that accepts control commands for creating AV files, and a hard disk control circuit, are provided, and loop recording can be performed on the basis of an AV file. Further, in loop recording operation, a frame number of a first frame of an AV file is stored in an AV file area management table as an offset value, and a position of each frame is managed by assigning a corresponding frame number from a start of loop recording onward, thereby enabling position indication such that the record position and reproduce position increase with the passage of time, even in loop recording mode.

VIDEO/AUDIO DATA RECORDING APPARATUS, VIDEO/AUDIO DATA REPRODUCING APPARATUS, VIDEO/AUDIO DATA RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, VIDEO/AUDIO DATA RECORDING METHOD, VIDEO/AUDIO DATA REPRODUCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM RECORDING PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM

A recording/reproducing apparatus disclosed herein uses a disk-type storage medium which has a spiral track divided into a plurality of continuous logical tracks. Each logical track extends at an angle less than 360.degree.. A head executes a track jump for retracing a desired logical track during tracing a logical track next to the desired track. Thus, no specific retrace area is necessary to be provided on the storage medium.

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Toshikazu Kodo