Patent ID: 8369685
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A control device which controls a recording device and a television receiving system, comprising: an interface to be interfaced with the recording device; an interface to be interfaced with the television receiving system; a recording target registering unit to register a TV program as a recording target program; a detecting unit that detects a switchover operation to a next TV program to be received next when viewing a present TV program; a recording target determining unit that determines whether or not the present TV program viewed so far has been already registered as the recording target program by the recording target registering unit, when detecting the switchover operation; a recording startup unit that starts up, when the present TV program has been already registered as the recording target program, a process of recording the present TV program by the recording device; and a switchover instructing unit instructing the television receiving system to switch over a receiving channel to a channel of the next TV program indicated by the switchover operation after starting up the recording process.