Patent ID: 8009964
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: B41J,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A label creating apparatus comprising: a receiving device that receives broadcast program information which relates to broadcast programs; a broadcast program information storing device that stores the broadcast program information received by the receiving device; a broadcast program specifying device that specifies, based on a user's selection, the broadcast program whose label is to be created, from among the broadcast programs that correspond to the broadcast program information stored in the broadcast program information storing device; a broadcast program information acquiring device that acquires the broadcast program information about the broadcast program specified by the broadcast program specifying device from the broadcast program information storing device; a label set specifying device that specifies a plurality of the labels as one suite of label sets; and a label creating device that allocates the broadcast program information pieces acquired by the broadcast program information acquiring device to the labels of the label set specified by the label set specifying device and arranging these information pieces into a print region of these labels to thereby create the labels; wherein, the broadcast program information includes at least titles of the broadcast programs; and the label creating device creates the labels by arranging information of at least some items of the broadcast program information into print regions of these labels; the apparatus limber comprising: a template storing device that stores arrangement information for arranging the broadcast program information pieces in the print region of the labels and a template, which is a print model including modification information of the broadcast program information pieces to be arranged; and a template selecting device that selects the template to be used, from among the plurality of templates stored in the template storing device, wherein: the template storing device includes the template for the label set; and if the template for the label set is selected by the template selecting device, the label set specify device specifies as the label set the plurality of labels included in this template for the label set; and the apparatus further comprising: an editing device that edits the labels created by the label creating device; and a template registering device that registers in the template storing device as the template the print model including the arrangement information and the modification information of the labels edited by the editing device; and the apparatus further comprising: a video-recording lapse of time calculating device that calculates a video-recording lapse of time of the selected broadcast program from a broadcast time of this broadcast roc am included in the broadcast program information acquired by the broadcast program information acquiring device; and a deciding device that decides whether a total of the video-recording lapses of time calculated by the video-recording lapse of time calculating device exceeds a preset upper limit lapse of time; wherein if the total of the video-recording lapses of time is decided to exceed the preset upper limit lapse of time by the deciding device, the label creating device avoids allocating the broadcast program information to the labels of that label set for the broadcast programs whose video-recording lapses of time exceed the preset upper limit lapse of time.