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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2004
Yasunori Ohara, Hitachinaka, JP;
Akira Saitou, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Takeo Ohkouchi, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Hiroo Okamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Nobutaka Amada, Yokohama, JP;
Yasunori Ohara, Hitachinaka, JP;
Akira Saitou, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Takeo Ohkouchi, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Hiroo Okamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Nobutaka Amada, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image recording and reproducing apparatus can record and reproduce both a digital signal and an analog signal. Operations of a broadcast receiving apparatus and a recording and reproducing apparatus are integrated, and superimposition of information on an analog image is realized during recording and reproduction of a digital signal. The broadcast receiving apparatus and the recording and reproducing apparatus communicate with each other to be able to set and obtain states of the opposite apparatus, so that one of the apparatus notifies information of the other apparatus to a user, and causes the user to set the information in a picture having the same form as a picture used to notify a state of one apparatus to the user, and causes the user to set the state.