Patent ID: 7865524

Claim:
A method of capturing data that comprise a recording date and time, said data having been recorded by a first device on a sequentially accessible recording medium carried by the first device, on an archiving medium, said method comprises the steps of: receiving the data from the first device; and capturing the data on an archiving medium in a second device, characterized in that the second device carrying the archiving medium controls the first device carrying the sequentially accessible recording medium, characterized in that said method includes a full scan algorithm comprising the steps of: scanning the sequentially accessible recording medium; determining scenes that comprise continued recording date and time; determining whether scenes have already been captured on the present archiving medium and the recording date and time of the last captured scene; comparing recording date and time of the scanned scenes with the last recording date and time on the archiving medium; and capturing those data comprising an audio/video signal and a recording date and time, the recording date and time of which is more recent than the last recording date and time on the archiving medium.