Patent ID: 7773856
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A video and audio recording apparatus comprising: a reservation inputting unit to which a recording reservation of a broadcast program received by a tuner portion is inputted; an area ensuring unit adapted to ensure a preferential recording area, which has a size necessary for recording a recording-reserved broadcast program, in an information recording medium; and a reserved-recording performing unit adapted to record a broadcast program on the ensured preferential recording area according to the recording reservation, wherein: the reservation inputting unit is adapted to receive a designation indicating which of two modes is employed between a preferential recording mode, in which recording of the program is performed on the ensured preferential recording area, and a normal recording mode, in which recording of the program is performed on a recording area during the recording is performed, so as to perform recording corresponding to a recording reservation that is being inputted, and is also adapted to prompt a user to input the number of times of broadcasting the program in a case where the preferential recording mode is designated corresponding to the recording reservation, which is being inputted, and where the recording reservation, which is being inputted, is a reservation of recording a broadcast program to be broadcasted over a plurality of times, which includes a reservation of recording the program every specific day of a week; the area ensuring unit is adapted to ensure a preferential recording area whose size is obtained by multiplying the size of a recording area needed to record one part of the recording-reserved program, which part is to be broadcasted one time, by the number of times of broadcasting the recording-reserved program, and is also adapted to indicate a size of the preferential recording area and that of a free area other than the preferential recording area, and to release, when the recording reservation, for which the preferential recording area is ensured, is canceled, a part of the preferential recording area, in which no program is recorded, as a free area in the preferential recording area ensured for the recording reservation that is canceled; and the reserved-recording performing unit performs the recording of the recording-reserved broadcast program on the preferential recording area the inputted number of times of broadcasting.