Patent ID: 6408332
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:an information supplying unit in which a plurality of additional information have been stored; and a recording and reproducing unit for transmitting and receiving information to/from said information supplying unit, wherein said recording and reproducing unit includes communicating means, reading means, storing means, control means, and output means, said communicating means transmits and receives the information to/from said information supplying unit, said reading means reads out recorded data from a recording medium on which a plurality of data and index data relating to said plurality of data have been recorded, the data read out from said recording medium by said reading means is stored into said storing means, said control means controls said communicating means to read out from said information supplying unit the additional information corresponding to said recording medium from which the data is read out by said reading means and writes said read-out additional information into said storing means as additional data of the recording medium which is read out by said reading means, and said output means outputs the data stored in said storing means and outputs said additional data stored in said storing means, wherein said storing means of said recording and reproducing unit comprises first storage means and further comprising a terminal apparatus unit having second storing means, and wherein the data read out from said first storing means of said recording and reproducing unit is stored into said second storing means of said terminal apparatus unit, wherein said control means inhibits the data which was read out from said first storing means from being stored in said second storing means of said terminal apparatus unit and the data stored in said first storing means of said recording and reproducing unit is further read out again from said first storing means of said recording and reproducing unit, wherein said control means sets an inhibition flag for the data which was read out from said first storing means and stored in said second storing means of said terminal apparatus unit in the data stored in said first storing means of said recording and reproducing unit, and wherein said inhibition flag given to the data stored in said first storing means is deleted by said control means when the data read out from said second storing means of said terminal apparatus unit is again supplied to said first storing means.