Patent ID: 8320748
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An audio/video information recording/reproducing device comprising: a first reproducing portion that reproduces a first audio/video information which is recorded as a first audio/video data; a second reproducing portion that reproduces a second audio/video information which is recorded as a second audio/video data; wherein the first audio/video data is constituted by a group of first continuous data areas in which the first audio/video information can be recorded, a size of the first continuous data areas is larger than a size of first physically continuous recording units; the second audio/video data is constituted by a group of second continuous data areas in which the second audio/video information can be recorded, a size of the second continuous data areas is larger than a size of second physically continuous recording units; and the first audio/video information, in the first physically continuous recording units, can be read out continuously until surplus first audio/video information is obtained in an amount corresponding to a total period of a period four times the time for interrupting a reading/writing of the first audio/video information and a period for reading out one of the second continuous data areas.