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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2006
Tomomi Umei, Settsu, JP;
Yoshiteru Mino, Hirakata, JP;
Yasunori Yamamoto, Takatsuki, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The recording apparatus of the present invention: stores therein one or more recorded data pieces, each of which is created by encoding a video data piece, and one or more encoding information sets, each of which is information extracted when a different one of the video data pieces is encoded and represents characteristics of the video data piece; selects a recorded data piece based on the stored encoding information sets; creates a re-encoded data piece by re-encoding the selected recorded data piece using a predetermined encoding method; extracts a corresponding re-encoding information set in a course of creating the re-encoded data piece; and stores (a) the re-encoded data piece which replaces the selected recorded data piece and (b) the re-encoding information set which replaces an encoding information set corresponding to the selected recorded data piece.