Patent ID: 7251327
Filing Date: 2007-07-31
Classification: G11B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A data transmitting apparatus comprising: an interface connectable to various external apparatuses; reproducing means for reproducing data; external-apparatus identifying means for determining a type of an external apparatus connected to said interface and for outputting data representing the type of the external apparatus; and control means for controlling stopping of transmission of a first signal derived from the reproduced data to the external apparatus through the interface in accordance with a result of the determining of the type of the external apparatus by said external-apparatus identifying means, said control means controlling the stopping of transmission of the first signal concurrent with said reproducing means reproducing the reproduced data and outputting a second signal derived from the reproduced data, wherein said external-apparatus identifying means determines whether the external apparatus is a storage apparatus that has a storage memory means for storing signals inputted through the interface, and said control means stops the transmission of the first signal to the external apparatus when said external-apparatus identifying means determines that the external apparatus is the storage apparatus having the storage memory means.