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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2003
Kensuke Ohnuma, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Wakai, Tokyo, JP;
Keiichi Yoshioka, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Utsuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hidetoshi Ichioka, Tokyo, JP;
Kensuke Ohnuma, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Wakai, Tokyo, JP;
Keiichi Yoshioka, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Utsuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hidetoshi Ichioka, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
Information processing methods to make it possible to reserve recording of a program without imposing a large burden on a user. A server transmits program attribute information to a video recording and reproducing apparatus via a network. The program attribute information includes program attribute names and program attribute retrieval conditions. The video recording and reproducing apparatus causes a display apparatus to display a list of the program attribute names. The user selects from the list a program attribute name to which a program that the user wishes to reserve for recording seems to be most closely related. The video recording and reproducing apparatus compares the retrieval conditions corresponding to the selected program attribute name and EPG (electronic program guide) information and, when the retrieval conditions are satisfied, records a program represented by the EPG in a recording reservation list. The methods can be applied to a hard disk video recorder.