Abstract: A video display apparatus which receives digital broadcasts transmitting program information for each program, includes a first setting unit configured to set first criteria for permitting viewing of the program, a second setting unit configured to set second criteria for blocking viewing of the program, and a control unit configured to compare the first criteria set by the first setting unit with the program information, compare the second criteria set by the second setting unit with the program information if the program has program information which matches the first criteria, and permit viewing of the program if the program has program information which does not match the second criteria.

Abstract: A picture recording apparatus which can record a picture on a write-once medium having an element which specifies a first size on a recording area assigned to data saving in edit processing, and an element which subtracts the first size from a remaining amount of recording area in the write-once medium to calculate a second size secured for recording, characterized in that a recording size is managed using the second size as an upper limit of a recordable size, and that an editing area is secured using the first size as a lower limit.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes: a storage device that stores data on a storage medium being configured with a storage area on which the data having a plurality of partial areas is repetitively overwritten; and a management unit that operates to: generate management information for managing the data based on a name assigned to the partial area, boundary information representing a boundary between the partial areas, and time information representing time on which each of the partial areas are stored; store the management information in the storage device; and set, as a name of the data, the name of one of the partial areas having the oldest time based on the management information.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a first area generating unit generating, in a storage medium, a first recording area to which first stream data is recorded; a second area generating unit generating, in the storage medium, a second recording area to which second stream data different from the first stream data is repeatedly overwrite-recorded; a management information recording unit recording, to the storage medium, management information managing the first and second recording areas; a data recording unit recording the second stream data to the second recording area; a management information managing unit updating the management information when the second stream data is recorded, to set a partial area which is a segment of the second recording area and prevent the number of the partial areas from exceeding a predetermined value; and an area transfer unit transferring, to the first recording area, the second stream data recorded in the second recording area.

Abstract: The recording apparatus includes: first and second area generating units generating, in a recording medium, first and second recording areas, respectively, for recording first stream data and for repeatedly overwrite-recording second stream data different from the first stream data and taken as an object of reproduction for a predetermined period; a recording unit recording the second stream data into the second recording area; a time information obtaining unit obtaining a time length of the second stream data; a loop time managing unit updating a length of the predetermined period to a length equal to or longer than the time length, when comparison therebetween, in response to a save instruction of the second stream data, shows the time length is longer than the predetermined period; and an area transfer unit transferring, to the first recording area, the second stream data having the time length and recorded in the second recording area.

Abstract: This recording apparatus for recording stream data to a storage medium, includes: a first area generator configured to generate a first record area for recording a first stream data on the storage medium; a second area generator configured to generate a second record area and a third record area on the storage medium for repeatedly overwriting a second stream data, the second stream data being provided as a reproduction object only for a predetermined period different from the first stream data; a management information managing unit configured to record a management information file having management information of the first stream data recorded to the first record area and management information of the second stream data recorded to the second and third record areas to the storage medium; a recording unit for recording the second stream data to the second record area, stopping the record of the second stream data to the second record area based on a save instruction of the second stream data, and restarting

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a recorder comprises: a first area generation unit configured to generate a first recording area used for recording first data in the storage medium; a second area generation unit configured to generate a second recording area in the storage medium, the second recording area used for repeatedly recording in an overwriting manner only second data, the second data being different from the first data and taken as an object of playback for a predetermined period; a management information managing unit configured to record a management information file having management information about first data recorded in the first recording area in the storage medium; and a management information edition unit configured to add management information about the second data into the management information file to allow the second data not to be overwritten, and record the management information into the storage medium.

Abstract: To provide an information recording/playback apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention has a function of writing and reading in/from a recording medium with a data structure configured to include a main first management information group and a subsidiary second management information group, a function of checking whether management information described in a recording medium and divided into a smaller number of divisions is the first or second management information group, and holding the information, and a function of using the management information described in the management information group divided into a smaller number of divisions based on the held information, when reading information from a recording medium. Therefore, when a metadata partition is expanded in an optical disc provided with a metadata partition, a decrease in a seek speed is prevented.

Abstract: In an image recording/reproducing apparatus capable of handling a hard disk and an optical disk, when just-recording on the hard disk has been requested, if a residual recording capacity of the hard disk is more than a residual recording capacity of the optical disk that is in a non-recorded state, a compression encoding rate for image information is set by regarding the residual recording capacity of the hard disk as being equal to the residual recording capacity of the optical disk in the non-recorded state.

Abstract: To provide a video recorder and video recording method according to an embodiment is setting a management information recording area for writing management information of optional number of files defined based on a data size of a recording image, in a recording medium configured to hold file data, and securing a data recording area for recording optional number of files, corresponding to the set management information recording area. This method prevents a decrease in a seek speed, when recording information (file data) in an optical disc provided with a metadata partition.

Abstract: A picture recording apparatus which can record a picture on a write-once medium having an element which specifies a first size on a recording area assigned to data saving in edit processing, and an element which subtracts the first size from a remaining amount of recording area in the write-once medium to calculate a second size secured for recording, characterized in that a recording size is managed using the second size as an upper limit of a recordable size, and that an editing area is secured using the first size as a lower limit.

Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus for dubbing content, where the rate of the content is converted, reads and decodes content in a dubbing source, encodes the decoded content at a predetermined conversion rate, and produces content in a dubbing destination. The information recording and reproducing apparatus then verifies an entry point associated with the content in the dubbing source and assigns the verified entry point to the content in the dubbing destination and record to the dubbing destination. Thus, the entry point can be copied from content in the dubbing source to the dubbing destination during rate-conversion dubbing, and information set as reference information about content in the dubbing source such as chapter information is transferred to the dubbing destination.

Abstract: An image editing apparatus comprises a recording unit configured to record a title including image information onto a recording medium; a dividing unit configured to divide the title into a plurality of chapters by setting information showing boundaries at arbitrary positions of a title recorded on the recording medium at the recording unit; a setting unit configured to set information showing attributes of chapters including the information, in the information showing boundaries included in the respective chapters divided at the dividing unit; and a control unit configured to sort the chapters on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit, and to apply predetermined editing processing with respect to the plural sorted chapters.

Abstract: In an image recording/reproducing apparatus capable of handling a hard disk and an optical disk, when just-recording on the hard disk has been requested, if a residual recording capacity of the hard disk is more than a residual recording capacity of the optical disk that is in a non-recorded state, a compression encoding rate for image information is set by regarding the residual recording capacity of the hard disk as being equal to the residual recording capacity of the optical disk in the non-recorded state.

Abstract: In a method of detecting motion vector data indicative of motion of a partial area in an input picture from any area on a reference picture, a first distortion between a partial area constructed by fields of the input picture and a partial area constructed by fields of the reference picture is calculated as a first evaluation value; a position of the partial area constructed by the fields of the reference picture at which the first evaluation value becomes the minimum value is detected; a search window on a frame of the reference picture is set on the basis of a detected position of the partial area constructed by the fields of the reference picture previously detected; and a second distortion between a partial area constructed by a frame in the set search window and a partial area constructed by a frame of the input picture is calculated as a second evaluation value, and a position of the partial area constructed by the frame of the reference picture at which the second evaluation value becomes the minimum v