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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2003
Yasuyuki Umehara, Tokorozawa, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo-To, DE;
Abstract
An information recording apparatus including an information reproduction unit for reading data recorded in a recording/reproducing medium; a decoder for decoding the data recorded in the recording/reproducing medium based on a signal from the information reproduction unit; a digital video compression unit for encoding the signal decoded by the decoder; and an information recording unit for recording the data encoded by the digital video compression unit into a recording/reproducing medium. The decoder is controlled to continuously decode the data recorded in the recording/reproducing medium including a portion erased by edition, and the digital video compression unit is controlled to discontinue the encoding of the signal in accordance with the portion erased by the edition.