Patent ID: 9014531
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A time-shifted viewing system comprising a video recording apparatus that records at least first and second videos and a reproducing apparatus that reproduces at least the first and second videos, and performing time-shifted reproduction, the video recording apparatus including: a video recording section that records the first and second videos, and registers the first and second videos in a video storage section; and a transmitting section that transmits the first and second videos recorded by the video recording section to the reproducing apparatus, the reproducing apparatus including: a receiving section that receives the first and second videos from the video recording apparatus; and a reproducing section that reproduces the first and second videos received by the receiving section, the transmitting section determining whether to transmit the second video by determining whether a video recording channel of the second video is the same as a video recording channel of the first video and determining whether a video recording start time of the second video and a video recording end time of the first video coincide with each other within a predetermined time difference, the transmitting section initiating transmission of the second video stored in the video storage section continuously after completing transmission of the first video being transmitted, in a case that a reproduction position of the first video being transmitted is beyond an end point of the first video, when the transmitting section has determined that the video recording channel of the second video is the same as the video recording channel of the first video and the video recording start time of the second video and the video recording end time of the first video coincide with each other within the predetermined time difference.