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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1998
Kosuke Yoshimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryo Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Suenaga, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitoshi Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A received television broadcasting signal is always recorded to a hard disk. In the hard disk, by time-divisionally processing the recording and reproduction, they are executed in parallel. In the television broadcasting, when the user wants to see a video image which has already become a past image, a high speed reverse rotation reproduction is instructed by the user. The video image is switched from the video image by the television broadcasting to the reproduction video image reproduced from the hard disk. The user designates the reproducing position while seeing the video image reproduced by the reverse rotation. The forward rotation reproduction is started from the designated position. When a scene which the user wants to see is finished and the forward rotation reproduction is cancelled by the user, the video image is switched from the reproduction video image to the video image of the television broadcasting.