Patent ID: 6363205
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
In a video and audio information copy system comprising a playback mechanism and a recording mechanism arranged in a single unit, said playback mechanism playing back video and audio signals recorded on a recording medium thereof, said recording mechanism recording externally applied video and audio signals or video and audio signals played back by said playback mechanism on a recording medium thereof, a method of detecting and editing programs of the same time slot from programs recorded on the recording medium of said playback mechanism, comprising the steps of:selecting a program to be edited, using time information of said video and audio signals, said time information being recorded together with said video and audio signals in a recording mode; retrieving a program with time information of the program selected at the program selecting step from the programs recorded on the recording medium of said playback mechanism; and copying the program retrieved at the retrieving step on the recording medium of said recording mechanism; wherein the program selecting step includes: a single program selecting step of selecting a plurality of programs of a single periodic time slot using said time information; and a plural program selecting step of selecting a successive series of programs of different time slots using said time information.