Patent ID: 6175682
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A high-speed filing system comprising:input processing means for inputting video signal data supplied from a plurality of different input signal sources;converting means for converting said video signal data supplied from each of said plurality of different input signal sources into respective video signal data of a common intermediate format;recording means for adding an identification header corresponding to a respective input signal source of said video signal data to the converted respective video signal data from the converting means and for recording the converted video signal data with the respective identification headers as a series of successive video signal data;reproducing means for reading the converted video signal data and identification headers recorded by the recording means;data arranging means for rearranging the converted video signal data read by the reproducing means according to the respective input signal source based on the respective identification headers; andfiling recording means for recording the converted video signal data rearranged by the data arranging means as filing data on a filing recording medium, whereby the filing data is simultaneously generated from the video signal data from the plurality of different input signal sources and recorded without interrupting a supply of the video signal data from the plurality of different input signal sources.