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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
May. 05, 2004
Tomoyuki Nonaka, Fujisawa, JP;
Katsuyuki Watanabe, Mito, JP;
Manabu Sasamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
For providing a recording/reproducing apparatus, for recoding and reproducing a digital signal onto first and second recording mediaand, in particular, being simple in the controlling method when conducting data copying between those recording media, being difference in the control formats thereof, comprising: a memoryfor storing therein the digital signal, temporality; an input/output portion, through which a control signal and the digital signal for use of recording and reproducing are inputted and outputted; a controllerfor performing two (2) kinds of controlling, being different from each other, with respect to said first and second recording media, upon basis of a one (1) kind of control signal inputted at said input/output portion; and an arbiterfor arbitrating and processing the digital signal in a time-sharing manner among said first recoding medium, said second recording medium and said memory, wherein the signal recorded in the first recording mediumrecorded onto the second recording mediumthrough the memory, thereby making a copy of data between the recording media differing from, but without passing through the input/output portion