Patent ID: 7886333

Claim:
A recording/reproduction system comprising: a first recording/reproduction device provided in a vehicle and operable to receive a signal, a second recording/reproduction device provided outside the vehicle and operable to receive the signal and communicate with the first recording/reproduction device, the first recording/reproduction device comprising: a first recording device into which data is recorded and from which the recorded data is read out; a reproducing section operable to read and reproduce the data recorded in the first recording device; a recording information transmitting section operable, when starting recording the data in the first recording/reproduction device, to transmit to the second recording/reproduction device recording information regarding the data, the device recording information including a first point in time where recording was started in the first recording/reproduction device; a reproduction information transmitting section operable to transmit to the second recording/reproduction device reproduction information indicating a second point in time where reproduction of the data was stopped in the first recording/reproduction device, the second point in time being after the first point in time; and a data transmitting section operable to, after the device recording information is transmitted, transmit to the second recording/reproduction device data which is recorded for a predetermined time from a beginning of the recording, and the second recording/reproduction device comprising: a second recording device for recording data based on the first point included in the device recording information transmitted from the first recording/reproduction device; a reproduction starting section operable to start reproduction in the second recording/reproduction device from the second point indicated by the device reproduction information from the first recording/reproduction device; and a data receiving/recording section operable to record the data transmitted from the data transmitting section so that the data is continuously linked to the data which has already been recorded in the second recording/reproduction device.