Patent ID: 7660514

Claim:
A video recorder for recording a broadcast video according to a predetermined schedule, comprising: means for receiving said broadcast video and a broadcast schedule for said broadcast video; a program guide recording unit for recording the broadcast schedule received by said receiving means; a reserve-recording information recording unit for recording a recording schedule of said broadcast video; a recording controller for generating the broadcast video received by said receiving means and generating video information about the recording video according to the recording schedule of said reserve-recording information recording unit; a video recording unit for recording the recording video recorded by said recording controller and the video information of the recording video a; and a reserve-recording information generator for generating reserve-recording information to be recorded by said reserve-recording information recording unit on the basis of the broadcast schedule recorded by said program guide recording unit and the video information recorded by said video recording unit, said reserve-recording information generator comprising: a similar data extractor which searches for a broadcast program which is similar to said video information recorded by said video recording unit among a broadcast schedule recorded by said program guide recording unit based on a video information recorded by said video recording unit; and a reserve-recording candidate generator which generates a recording schedule of the similar broadcast program searched by said similar data extractor, wherein said reserve-recording information recording unit records said reserve-recording information based on a reserve-recording candidate broadcast program extracted by said similar data extractor.