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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Daisaku Kato, Sagamihara, JP;
Inventor:
Daisaku Kato, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/91 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Video signals received on TV channels are recorded and reproduced with time-division compression and decompression to and from a storage medium to allow the video signals to be reproduced while the signals are being recorded. A channel-switching signal is generated when a first TV channel is switched to a second TV channel. Recording of a video signal received on the second TV channel is inhibited for a specific period until a normal video signal received on the second TV channel is gained after the output of the channel-switching signal. Recording of the video signal received on the second TV channel is allowed when the specific period elapses.