Patent ID: 7643730

Claim:
A video recorder to be connected to a DV (Digital Video) camcorder via an IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers) 1394 serial bus, the video recorder comprising: an IEEE 1394 interface for sending and receiving control commands and its response signal, and also sending and receiving stream data, to and from the DV camcorder; a video recording means for recording, on a recording medium, stream data received from the DV camcorder via the IEEE 1394 interface; an operation means for entering various inputs to command and operate the DV camcorder and the video recorder, including input to command dubbing-unwanted information in the stream data in the DV tape in the DV camcorder, and further including input to command recording by the video recording means; a dubbing-unwanted information storage means for storing time codes about the dubbing-unwanted information in the stream data (DV tape) commanded by a user using the operation means; a dubbing-unwanted information reproduction control means which based on the time codes about the dubbing-unwanted information stored in the dubbing-unwanted information storage means, controls the DV camcorder to fast forward the DV tape in the DV camcorder for data area(s) other than the dubbing-unwanted information, and to reproduce the video information in the dubbing-unwanted information, when the user using the operation means commands the recording by the video recording means; a zero reset information storage means for storing information about zero reset of time codes in the stream data during the rewinding of the DV tape; wherein when the user, using the operation means, commands the recording by the video recording means, the dubbing-unwanted information reproduction control means controls the DV camcorder to rewind the DV tape, and to fast forward the DV tape for the data area(s) other than the dubbing-unwanted information after the end of the rewinding, and further to reproduce the video information in the dubbing-unwanted information; and wherein the dubbing-unwanted information reproduction control means determines the dubbing-unwanted information based on the time codes about the dubbing-unwanted information stored in the dubbing-unwanted information storage means, and on the information about the zero reset stored in the zero reset information storage means.