Patent ID: 6462753
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A controlling apparatus, connected to an audio and/or video reproducing apparatus and an audio and/or video recording apparatus through a bus line, for controlling a synchronous dubbing operation from the audio and/or video reproducing apparatus to the audio and/or video recording apparatus, the controlling apparatus comprising:1) receiving means for receiving management information of a first record medium loaded in the audio and/or video reproducing apparatus and management information of a second record medium loaded in the audio and/or video recording apparatus, and for receiving from a category code generating means in said audio and/or video reproducing apparatus, a category code that specifies: a) a type of the first record medium; and b) a functional mode of the audio and/or video reproducing apparatus; 2) display data generating means for generating first display data corresponding to first management information received by said receiving means and generating second display data corresponding to second management information: and 3) controlling means for controlling the synchronous dubbing operation to the audio and/or video recording apparatus from the audio and/or video reproducing apparatus such that when a user shifts a cursor from a predetermined position in a first display area corresponding to the first display data generated by said display data generating means to another position in a second display area corresponding to the second display data, a program corresponding to said predetermined position in the first display area is reproduced by the audio and/or video reproducing apparatus and the reproduced program is recorded by the audio and/or video recording apparatus in accordance with said another position in the second display area.