Patent ID: 6608962
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A video cassette recorder (VCR) for performing high-speed searching of important information, such as desired time and alarm data, comprising:an encoder for encoding channel information and time information relating to a video signal to compose a signal, and for adding the encoded information to a vertical blanking interval of the video signal; a recording/reproducing section for performing at least one of recording the signal composed by the encoder and reproducing a recorded video signal; a decoder for extracting the channel information and the time information encoded by the encoder from video signals outputted from the recording/reproducing section, and for decoding the extracted information; a controller for inverting a control pulse at predetermined time intervals when a video signal is recorded so as to record a point in time within the predetermined time intervals, for searching the recorded point in time within the predetermined time intervals in a high-speed mode based on the channel information and the time information extracted and decoded by the decoder when automatic searching is performed during reproduction, for converting a mode of the VCR into a standard mode, starting from the searched point in time, when a desired point in time has been searched, to allow the video signal to be reproduced in the standard mode, and for controlling operations of the VCR; and a video signal output for externally outputting a video signal from the recording/reproducing section.