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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2000
Mitsuyuki Nozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Kikuchi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
A DVD recording/reproducing apparatus according to the present invention includes a copy range designator for designating a copy range of data to be copied from a source disc to a dubbing disc, a VOBU fetcher for fetching VOBU according to information designated by the copy range designator, a copy protection information fetcher for fetching copy protection information from control packs in the VOBU fetched by the VOBU fetcher, a copy protection information determiner for determining a type of copy protection type, such as copy-fully-permitted, only-once copy-permitted, or copy-prohibited according to the information from the VOBU fetcher, a copy protection information updater for updating the copy protection information when determined copying of data being permitted, and a disc drive for recording data thus processed into the dubbing disc.
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