Patent ID: 7177251
Filing Date: 2007-02-13
Classification: G06T,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording method comprising: a storage step of making buffer means store temporarily a predetermined amount of inputted contents data; a kind identification step of identifying the kind of data on said imputed contents data; a detection step of detecting additional information buried in said contents data from said contents data temporarily stored in said storage step; an estimation step of estimating contents of said additional information detected in said detection step; and a recording step of recording said contents data in a predetermined medium when estimated that said contents data can be recorded in said estimation step and of stopping recording said contents data in the medium when estimated that said contents data must not be recorded in said estimation steps, wherein only when said contents data are identified as data of a predetermined format in said kind identification step, said detection step and estimation step are executed for restricting the recording in the medium.