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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2001
Applicants:
Koichi Chotoku, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Ohta, Tokyo, JP;
Toshimichi Hamada, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/91 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a video-signal recording & playback apparatus and method for recording and playing back a video signal of a television-broadcast program and a recording medium for storing a computer-readable program for controlling the video-signal recording & playback apparatus. A video-signal recording & playback apparatus includes a detection element for detecting relevant information related to a program being recorded and a modification element for automatically modifying an algorithm of detecting a program-representing picture in dependence of the relevant information.