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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2001
Masahiro Honjo, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Honjo, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a recording/reproduction apparatus which can record AV data at a variable rate as well as so as to enable trick plays. This recording/reproduction apparatus reads data from an HDDand carries out a recording/reproduction process for the read data, and it comprises a reproduction meansfor reading first MPEG data from the HDDan analysis meansfor obtaining positional information indicating positions of previous and subsequent GOPs of a GOP in the first MPEG data on the basis of the read first MPEG data, a navigation information addition meansfor adding the positional information in a determined position of the first MPEG data to generate second MPEG data, and a recording meansfor recording the second MPEG data on an optical disk