VIDEO RECORDING RESERVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

• Main Authors: SAKATANI TOMOHIKO, EKUSA HIROSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.12.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video recording reservation system that can surely record only a program whose video recording is desired by a user even when a reservation system of free-set reservation or G code (R) reservation is adopted. SOLUTION: This invention provides the reservation video recording system that is provided with a storage section that stores a program list collecting a plurality of sets of program information each including a program televising schedule time and an event ID to identify the program, a reservation input section by which a user enters reserved program specific information specifying a scheduled televising date and time on the basis of time in order to reserve the video recording of a program whose televising is scheduled as a reserved program, a reservation management section that extracts the program information of a reserved program on the basis of the program list and the reserved program specific information, and a video recording management section that monitors the event ID of the televising start program whose televising is started and records the televising start program as the reserved program in response to the result of monitor.