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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1998
Hidenori Aotake, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A personal computer is used as a recording apparatus that is capable of carrying out recording and other processing concurrently without suspending the recording. The personal computer includes an encoder board, a microprocessor, and a hard disk. A recording period of time for recording a program and a bit rate of an MPEG system stream produced by the encoder board as a result of encoding a program are set. The microprocessor computes a recording capacity from the recording period of time and the bit rate. A free area with the size equal to the computed recording capacity is allocated in the hard disc. The free area is used for storing MPEG system stream of a program received typically by a TV tuner employed in the encoder board.