JPH09251678A - Recording and reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the video recording of a desired program from being cut by enabling the completion time of an arbitrary timer video recording reservation to be set at the time delayed by a prescribed time. SOLUTION: A timer circuit 2 is actuated based on the setting of a timer program setting part 1 and the output of the circuit 2 is supplied to a system control circuit 3. A display circuit 7 displays a timer reservation state or the like on display devices such as the cathode ray tube of a TV receiver and so forth. Then, when a base ball prolongation button 9 is depressed, a prescribed time is added to the completion time set in the timer circuit 2 by a timer completion time adder 8 and data that the completion time is prolonged are displayed on the display. Then, when the inputting of the prolongation of the completion time is performed, a video recording is continued and after the video recording is executed until the time when the video recording is prolonged, the video recording is stopped.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recording / reproducing apparatus for a television broadcast signal such as a video tape recorder (VTR).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a VTR in which a television broadcast is timer-recorded, a VTR in which a recording end time is delayed with respect to a timer-recorded one for which reserved recording is executed first is there.

[0003]

However, in the above VTR, the end time can be changed only for the first scheduled recording, and after the reserved recording is executed, the end time cannot be changed at all. Can not. Therefore, for example, when the user timer-records the program A, it is assumed that the recording start time and the recording end time of the program A are set without knowing that the program immediately before the program A was a baseball broadcast. Then, at a later date, if the user knows that the program immediately before Program A is a baseball broadcast and tries to extend the end time of Program A in consideration of the extension of baseball, it will be reserved and recorded earlier than Program A. If so, it was not possible to delay the recording end time for program A with one touch. Moreover, in order to delay the end time of the reserved recording of the program A after it has already started, it is necessary to interrupt the recording once and set the recording end time by one-touch recording or the like. The situation occurs that is not recorded.

Therefore, the present invention is intended to solve such a problem.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, in a recording / reproducing apparatus capable of making a plurality of timer recording reservations, a plurality of timer recording reservations are made after the plurality of timer recording reservations. The recording / reproducing apparatus is characterized in that the end time of an arbitrary timer recording reservation can be set to a time delayed by a predetermined time before execution of timer recording reservation or during execution of timer reservation.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the recording / reproducing apparatus is characterized in that the time delayed by the predetermined time is the end point of the recording area of the recording medium. The invention according to claim 3 is the recording / reproducing apparatus, wherein the change of the end time is set by a menu screen displayed on the on-screen display. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in a video tape recorder capable of making a plurality of timer recording reservations, after the plurality of timer recording reservations, an end time of any timer recording reservation among the plurality of timer recording reservations is set. , It is possible to set the time before the timer recording reservation is executed or at a time delayed by a predetermined time during the timer reservation execution.The end time can be reset after selecting the target to be changed while looking at the menu screen displayed on the on-screen. , A video tape recorder characterized by being set by one operation of the extension key.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a main part of a VTR embodying the present invention, in which 1 is a timer program setting section, 2 is a timer circuit which operates based on the setting of the timer program setting section 1, and 3 is a timer circuit 2. A system control circuit that operates by receiving output,
The timer program setting unit, the timer circuit 2, the control circuit 3, and a timer end time adder 8 described later.
Is composed of a microcomputer. Reference numeral 4 is a mechanism section, 5 is an audio circuit, and 6 is a video circuit, which operate upon receiving a command from the system control circuit 3. Reference numeral 7 denotes a display circuit, which can display a timer reservation status on a display device such as a cathode ray tube of a TV receiver. 9 is a baseball extension button,
This button 9 is provided on the remote control transmitter 13 (see FIG. 2).

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

When the timer program reservation button (menu button) 10 is pressed, the program reservation data is displayed as shown in FIG. 3 (S2). Next, when the reservation confirmation end button (menu button 10) is pressed (S3), the display data is erased (S8).

If the reservation confirmation end button is not pressed, then in step 4, the feed key 11 of the remote controller 13 is pressed to move the cursor, and it is judged whether or not the program number is selected. If so, it is determined whether or not the baseball extension button 9 has been pressed for the selected item (S5). Baseball extension button 9
When is pressed, a predetermined time is added to the end time set in the timer circuit 2 by the timer end time adder 9 (S6), and data obtained by extending the end time is displayed on the display ( S7).

The method of recording after entering the timer standby state from this state is the same as the normal timer recording, from step 11 to step 16 of the flowchart of FIG.
It is performed according to. That is, when the timer start time comes (S12), the recording is executed (S13), and when the recording is executed until the reservation end time (S14), the recording is stopped (S15) and the timer standby for the next timer recording is performed. (S16). When the baseball extension button is pressed once, recording is continued until the tape end.

Next, a case where the end time is extended during execution of timer recording reservation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

That is, during execution of timer reservation (S21), if there is no extension input for the end time (S2).
2) In step 24, it is determined whether or not the recording has been executed up to the currently set reservation end time, and when the recording is performed until the reservation end time, the recording is stopped (S26),
The timer standby state for the next timer recording is set (S27).

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 22 that the extension of the end time has been input according to the procedure of FIG. 4, the recording is continued (S23), and the recording is executed until the extended time. (S25), stop recording (S2
6) Then, the timer standby state for the next timer recording is set (S27).

In the above embodiment, when the baseball extension button 9 is pressed, the recording is extended and recorded up to the tape end, but instead of this, each time the baseball extension button 9 is pressed, 15 minutes are recorded. It is also possible to delay the end time each time.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a program before a certain program after a plurality of timer programs is likely to be extended in broadcasting time such as baseball broadcasting, the recording end time can be set by pressing the baseball extension button. Can be easily extended, and it is possible to easily prevent recording loss.

Further, during execution of the timer program, even if the previous program is extended and the program to be timer-recorded is delayed, it can be extended simply by pressing the baseball extension button, and the recording interruption can be prevented.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a main block diagram of a VTR embodying the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a main part of a remote control transmitter.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an on-screen display screen.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Timer program setting section 2 Timer circuit 3 System control circuit 4 Mechanism circuit 5 Audio circuit 6 Video circuit 7 Display circuit 8 Timer end time adder 9 Baseball extension button

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A recording / reproducing apparatus capable of reserving a plurality of timer recordings, wherein after the plurality of timer recording reservations, an end time of an arbitrary timer recording reservation among the plurality of timer recording reservations is set as a timer recording reservation. A recording / reproducing apparatus, which can be set to a time delayed by a predetermined time before execution or during timer reservation execution. 2. The recording / reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the time delayed by the predetermined time is an end time of a recording area of a recording medium. 3. The recording / reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the change of the end time is set by a menu screen displayed on the on-screen display. 4. A video tape recorder capable of making timer recording reservations, wherein after the timer recording reservations, the end time of any timer recording reservation among the timer recording reservations is set as the timer recording reservation. It is possible to set a time that is delayed by a predetermined time before execution or during timer reservation execution.To change this end time, select the target to be changed while looking at the menu screen displayed on the on-screen, and then press the extension key Characteristic video tape recorder designed to be set by a single operation.