Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions

20090279839 - Recording/reproducing device, recording/reproducing method, recording/reproducing program, and computer readable recording medium: A determining unit determines whether a vehicle is in a traveling state or a stopped state. When the determining unit determines that the vehicle is in the traveling state, an indicating unit indicates a timing of a point in the content to be reproduced. A specifying unit specifies a representative... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090279840 - Image digesting apparatus: There is provided a shot length calculating unit 2 for, when a result of determination by a cut point determination part 16 in a cut point detecting unit 1 shows that a frame is a cut point, calculating the shot length of a shot starting from a cut point immediately... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279841 - Metadata recording device and method thereof: A metadata recording device that inserts an invalid byte for anti-emulation without scanning the contents of metadata and allows a data length after the anti-emulation is performed to be a fixed length is a metadata recording device that records main data and metadata, which are binary data, and includes: a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090279842 - Imaging/reproducing device: Position information of image pickup positions included in a designated moving image file is read out from position of point of change information, and map information covering all the positions of the position information is obtained from a map information database by a map information obtaining portion. A map is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279845 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279846 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279843 - Method and apparatus for editing program search information: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for editing program search information. The scene descriptive information of optical disc program is edited into a search information unit when the optical disc program is inscribed on an optical disc or optical disc program is off-line edited. Said scene descriptive information... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090279844 - Recording apparatus, recording method, recording program, and integrated circuit: It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus which reduces the compression distortion generated on the menu screen included in menu data when recording compression-coded menu data, and generates the compression-coded menu data including a menu screen with a good image quality. A recording and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090279847 - Program accumulation apparatus, program accumulation reservation method, and program: A program accumulation apparatus includes: a broadcast program acquisition section to acquire data of a broadcast program based on a preset recording reservation; a delivery program acquisition section to acquire data of a delivery program delivered by a downloading method via a network based on a preset download reservation; a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090279848 - Reproducing device and reproduction control method: When reproduction of any one of contents on any one of mediums is interrupted, a first video device transmits interruption information to a second video device connecting with a network, and the second video device registers the interruption information in an other-device interruption information management table. When given an instruction... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090279849 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279850 - Broadcast signal-providing device, broadcast signal-providing method, broadcast signal-providing program, and broadcast signal-providing system: During time-shifted playback of a broadcast signal, an immediacy information detection means (121) detects whether the received broadcast signal is a broadcast signal having immediacy information that must be provided immediately to the viewer, and when a broadcast signal having immediacy information is detected, a playback control means (123) interrupts... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090279851 - Captured image data management method and image capturing apparatus: A captured image data management method is disclosed. Coverage direction data are input to a recorder-built-in type mage capturing apparatus and the coverage direction data are recorded to a nonvolatile memory and a record medium. The captured image data are obtained as files. A name of the file recorded on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090279852 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: a detecting section that detects feature information of at least one AV stream; a recording section that records the AV streams, clip information defining attributes including the detected feature information, and playback-segment data specifying at least one playback segment to a storage medium in accordance... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279853 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279854 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279855 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279856 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279857 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279858 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279859 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279860 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279861 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279862 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279863 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279864 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279865 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279866 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279868 - Contents data recording/reproducing system, recording/reproducing device, mobile recording/reproducing device, and method: A contents data recording/reproducing method for use in a contents data recording/reproducing system comprising mutually connectable first and second recording/reproducing devices, the method comprising recording contents data input to either of the first and second recording/reproducing devices in the first and second recording/reproducing devices, respectively, wherein reproduction of only the... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20090279867 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, reproducing program, recording medium, and data structure: A state transition of a player operation is explicitly defined to facilitate the production of interactive contents. As a player model for reproducing a disk, a model including a player 300 for reproducing a stream, a platform 301 providing an interface between the player 300 and a hardware, and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279869 - Recording medium, recording device, recording method, and playback device: A recording medium having recorded thereon one or more pieces of playlist information each of which includes a stream table including multiple stream entries. Each audio stream has been encoded in one of a mandatory format that is an encoding format decodable by a playback apparatus with any version number,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090279870 - Method and device for condensed image recording and reproduction: A method for decoding coded image data, and which includes determining whether a property type of an image data is a first coding type or a second coding type, in which the first coding type of the image data includes identifier information of a reference image for specifying the reference... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279871 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090279872 - Content data output device, television containing same, and content data output program: The content data output device of the present invention includes: an IrDA receiving section (13) for receiving content data; and a second input switching section (14) for storing the content data received by the IrDA receiving section (13) and implementing such control as to output the recorded content data in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279873 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279875 - Information processing apparatus, information recording medium, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a playback controller and a storage unit. The playback controller reads per-disc or per-title identification information in the form of a media ID recorded onto a disc, and then executes content playback selection processing or determines a playback processing mode according to bit information included... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279876 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279877 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279878 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090279874 - Recording device and driving state controlling method: A recording device including: a medium drive section configured to rotation-drive a disk recording medium, and write data to the disk recording medium through a head section; a determining section configured to determine whether the recording device is in a falling state when the medium drive section is in an... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090274434 - Video concept detection using multi-layer multi-instance learning: Visual concepts contained within a video clip are classified based upon a set of target concepts. The clip is segmented into shots and a multi-layer multi-instance (MLMI) structured metadata representation of each shot is constructed. A set of pre-generated trained models of the target concepts is validated using a set... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090274437 - Embedding data in media metadata tracks during playback: Data is embedded onto new or existing media metadata tracks during playback of a media stream. A content server provides a media stream to a mobile device. Data associated with the playback of the media stream on the mobile device is obtained by the content server and saved to the... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090274440 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274441 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274442 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274443 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274444 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274445 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274439 - Information storage medium including meta data for multi-angle title, and apparatus and method for reproducing the same: A storage medium including meta data for providing an enhanced search function on AV data supporting multi-angle, and a reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing AV data from the storage medium are provided. The storage medium comprises moving picture data for supporting multi-angle; and meta data for providing an enhanced... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090274436 - Method and apparatus for adaptive transport injection for playback: There are provided a method and apparatus for adaptive transport injection for playback. The apparatus includes a playback manager for managing at least one buffer to maintain a fullness of the at least one buffer for a data playback by adapting a data injection size, relating an amount of data... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090274435 - Reproduction device, reproduction method, recording device, recording medium, program storage medium, and program: The present invention relates to a reproduction apparatus by which a user can easily search for a desired scene of content data, a reproduction method, a recording apparatus, a recording method, a recording medium, a program storage medium, and a program. Information used for a search is recorded together with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274438 - Video processing apparatus and method for processing video data: A video processing apparatus includes: a memory; a storage unit; and a processor that operates to: acquire a reproduction end time from pre-conversion video data stored in the memory; perform stream data conversion processing on the pre-conversion video data stored in the memory to generate stream-data-converted video data on a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090274446 - Stream data generation method and partial erase processing method: Stream data has a recording data structure formed in units of stream blocks (or stream object units SOBU) which are segmented to have a predetermined data size. Data are recorded (or encoded) and partially erased (or temporarily erased) in units of the stream blocks (SOBUs).... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274448 - Recording apparatus, recording status detection method, program delivery and recording system, and program: A recording apparatus includes: a guide information obtaining section to obtain guide information of a program scheduled to be delivered; a series information obtaining section to obtain series information for specifying a plurality of programs belonging to a series; a program data obtaining section to obtain data of the programs;... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090274447 - Recording system, transmission apparatus, recording apparatus, recording control method, and recording medium: A recording system includes a transmission apparatus and a recording apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes a storage unit that stores content data, a generating unit that generates recording destination information, and a transmission control unit that transmits the recording destination information and the content data. The recording apparatus includes a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090274449 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274451 - Firmware updates on media: Apparatus and methods are provided to allow convenient updating of the controller of a media device using content-containing media accessible by the device. Features provided in implementations can include, but am not limited to, prompt and efficient distribution of updates to device users, and promotion of use of the device.... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20090274450 - Information recording apparatus and information recording method: When a size (AO) of contents data (20) is larger than an unrecorded capacity (BO) of a second recording medium (3), the contents data (20) is divided into an unchanged data section (21) and a changed data section (22), and a process of reducing video resolution or a recording bit... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090274453 - Method for resuming content reproduction across devices: A method for operating a data reproduction device enables users to resume reproduction of audio and/or video content across different devices of the same or different type. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes steps of receiving first index data from a different data reproduction device wherein the first... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090274452 - Virtual dvd on demand and electronic dvd rental/buy/burn: An apparatus includes a storage medium for storing downloaded encoded media content, and a decoder for decoding the stored encoded media content for a choice of one of a viewing rental of the decoded media content and recording the decoded media content to a recordable media.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090263100 - Dynamic variation of output media signal in response to input media signal: A first input signal, which has a first playback sequence, is resequenced based upon a characteristic of a second input signal. The resequencing occurs analyzing the characteristic in the second input signal, and modifying the first playback sequence of the first input signal based upon the analysis of the characteristic... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090263099 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit which receives, from an image capturing apparatus, moving image data in which the shadow of a foreign substance adhered to the surface of an optical member is captured, an obtaining unit which obtains, from the moving image data, foreign substance information including... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090263098 - Method and apparatus for segmenting recorded news program according to topics: Provided are a method and apparatus for segmenting a recorded news program according to topics. The method and apparatus compare web bulletins, segmented according to topics and posted, with moving pictures and/or captions of the recorded news program, and correct or generate captions of the recorded news program by referring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090263101 - Apparatus for resolving recording timer conflicts: Described herein are techniques for displaying conflicts between two or more recording timers. Recording conflicts are displayed graphically for the user to resolve.... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.L.C. Legal Department

20090263102 - Video content reproducing apparatus and video content reproducing method: An apparatus that, when reproducing video content that cannot be displayed normally, executes downconverted reproduction or notifies the user to avoid displeasing or upsetting the user, having a decoder block (13) that outputs a video signal reproduced from an optical disc to a video display apparatus (4), a display device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090263103 - Recording apparatus, recording method, and recording program, and image capturing apparatus, image capturing method and image capturing program: To improve user-friendliness in recording AV data created after recording is started until it is stopped as a file. AV data that are created after recording is started until it is stopped are recorded as a file. Information that represents a reproduction region and mark information that represents a jump... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090263104 - Stream playback control device: Time information for restoring the playback rate is affixed to a plurality of packets included in a stream. A predetermined number of such packets are stored in advance in a buffer memory 9. A packet arrival time detection section 5 detects the input time of a reference-time packet (packet having... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090263106 - Text subtitle decoder and method for decoding text subtitle streams: A method and a text subtitle decoder for decoding a text subtitle stream recorded on a recording medium are disclosed. A subtitle loading buffer initially loads a text subtitle stream including a dialog style segment defining a group of region styles and a dialog presentation segment having dialog presentation information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090263105 - Transport stream generating apparatus, recording apparatus having the same, and transport stream generating method: m

20090263107 - Image reproduction system and image reproduction processing program: An image reproduction system comprising: an image data storage unit that stores a plurality of image data, an image display unit that successively displays a plurality of images based on the plurality of image data, an audio input unit that receives as input sound of a surrounding environment, an audio... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090263108 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: In an information processing apparatus, an encoded data joiner joins divided and encoded data generated as a result of division-encoding target data that has been divided into a plurality of intervals at a predetermined number of division points. A decoder then decompresses the data generated by the encoded data joiner,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090263109 - Recording apparatus, method for controlling recording apparatus, control program of recording apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium: A recording/reproducing apparatus (115) includes a storage section (117) having a content attribute database (DB1) and a point database (DB2). Further, a point calculating section (120) of the recording/reproducing apparatus (115) extracts attribute information sets for each content item from the content attribute database (DB1). Further, deletion factor points associated... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch