JPH06162251A - Recording/reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simply and a high speed input a recording information character- string for showing the recording contents by allowing a character-string for showing the recording contents to be subjected to character recognition and encoding it, and recording its character code train in the recording medium. CONSTITUTION:In a portable character-string input part 101, an image of a recording information character-string of a melody name, a program name, etc., is read by an image reading part 103, converted to a character code train by allowing it to be subjected to character recognition by a character recognizing part 104, and a control part 106 displays this character code train on a display part 105, and also, transmits it from a transmitting part 107. In a main body 102, a control part 110 displays the character code train received by a receiving part 108 on a display part 109, and also, instructs to record it in recording medium to a recording part 112. A reproducing part 113 reads out the recording information character code train recorded in the recording medium, and the control part 110 instructs to print a label to a printing part 111. In such a way, the recording information character-string can be inputted simply and at a high speed, and the label of the recording contents can be generated automatically and simply.

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 such as a video tape recorder or an audio tape recorder.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional recording / reproducing apparatus is disclosed in JP-A-63-244479 relating to a video tape recorder or JP-A-60-14058 relating to an audio tape recorder.
As shown in 5, input a character string such as a song name that represents the contents of music or video to be recorded on the recording medium using the keyboard, record the character string information on the recording medium, and read the character string from the recording medium during playback. It was to read and display, and to display a list of contents recorded on the recording medium.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, there is a problem that it is very troublesome and time consuming because it is a manual input using a keyboard. In addition, when a label of a recording medium is created, since it is a manual input using a keyboard, there is a problem that it takes a lot of time and labor.

Therefore, the present invention solves such a problem, and its purpose is to input a record information character string representing the contents to be recorded very easily and at high speed by using a character recognition technique. An object of the present invention is to provide a recording / reproducing apparatus capable of automatically and easily creating a label of recorded contents.

[0005]

The recording / reproducing apparatus of the present invention comprises an optical reading means for optically reading at least an image of a printed or handwritten recorded information character string representing recorded contents such as a song title and a program title. Characteristic recognition means for recognizing the character string image and converting it into a character code string, and character code string recording means for recording the character code string on a recording medium are featured.

Further, it is characterized by further comprising a character code string reading means for reading a character code string recorded on a recording medium corresponding to a reproduced content at the time of reproduction, and a display means for displaying the read character code string.

Further, at least a character code string reading means for reading a character code string representing the content recorded on the recording medium from the recording medium, and a label printing means for printing the read character code string as a label are characterized. To do.

[0008]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in detail below based on examples.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a recording / reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a radio program section in the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an external view of a portable character string input unit of the recording / reproducing apparatus in the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a front view of the main body of the recording / reproducing apparatus in the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a character string recording unit in the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the label printing unit in the embodiment of the present invention.

The recording / reproducing apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the character string recording unit in the embodiment of the present invention. The recording of the record information character string on the recording medium is performed by optically reading the image of the record information character string 501 by the image reading unit 502 and converting the read image into a character code string by character recognition by the character recognition unit 503. The control unit 505 receives the character code string, displays it on the display unit 504, and records it on a recording medium in the recording unit 506. On the contrary, the reading from the recording medium is performed by reading the recording information character code string recorded on the recording medium by the reproducing unit 507, receiving the character code string by the control unit 505, and displaying it on the display unit 504.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the label printing section in the embodiment of the present invention. To print the label, the recording information character code string recorded on the recording medium is reproduced by the reproducing unit 601.
The control unit 602 receives the character code string, displays it on the display unit 603, and displays the label 60 on the printing unit 604.
5 is printed.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a radio program section in the embodiment of the present invention. In the program column 201, a character string 202 indicating a program title and a character string 2 indicating a song number and a song name
03 is printed. When a radio broadcast of the program title 202 is recorded on the recording / reproducing apparatus of this embodiment, the program title 202 and the music title character string 203 are read from the program section 201 by using the character recognition technique and recorded on the recording medium. . Thereby, what is recorded on the recording medium at the time of reproduction can be known. Besides this,
Examples of items including the recorded information character string include a television program section, a CD jacket, and the back side of the CD.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a recording / reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The recording / reproducing apparatus of this embodiment has two functions, a portable character string input unit 101 and a main body 102. The portable character string input unit 101 performs the following processing. Program title character string 202 or song title character string 20
The image of the recorded information character string such as No. 3 is read by the image reading unit 10
3 is read, the read image is converted into a character code string by character recognition by the character recognition unit 104, and the character code string is received by the control unit 106. The control unit 106 passes the character code string to the display unit 105 and instructs the display.
If necessary, correction processing is performed. When the character code string is ready to be transmitted, the character code string is passed to the transmitting unit 107. The transmitting unit 107, to which the character code string is passed, transmits the character code string to the receiving unit 108 of the main body 102.

The main body 102 performs the following processing. The receiving unit 108 receives the character code string transmitted from the transmitting unit 107 of the portable input unit 101, and passes the character code string to the control unit 110. The control unit 110 instructs the display unit 109 to display the received character code string, and the recording unit 11
Instruct 2 to record on the recording medium. The reproducing unit 113 reads out the recording information character code string recorded on the recording medium and passes the character code string to the control unit 110. The control unit 110 instructs the display unit 109 to display the received character code string, and instructs the printing unit 111 to print a label.

FIG. 3 is an external view of a portable character string input unit of the recording / reproducing apparatus in the embodiment of the present invention. The portable character string input unit 301 pushes the power switch 311 to turn on the power. In order to read the character string image of the recorded information character string 305 such as the song title, the read switch 306 is pressed and traced over the recorded information character string 305, and the image reading sensor 304
Read with. The read image is character-recognized, and the obtained recorded information character code string is displayed on the LCD (liquid crystal display) 302. If correction is necessary, the correction button A308 and the correction button B309 are used to make corrections. Also, switch 3 for English reading mode and Japanese reading mode.
Press 10 to switch. The determined recording information character code string is transmitted from the infrared light emitting unit 303 to the infrared light receiving unit of the recording / reproducing apparatus main body by pressing the send button 307. The reason for providing the English reading mode is that the recognition speed and the recognition accuracy rate are improved by narrowing down the character recognition target to English. In addition, in both English and Japanese recognition, it is possible to further improve the recognition accuracy rate by introducing a knowledge process that corrects the recognition result using a word dictionary.

FIG. 4 is a front view of the main body of the recording / reproducing apparatus in the embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a magneto-optical disk is used as the recording medium. The magneto-optical disk has a feature that it can be randomly accessed. Therefore, a recording information area of a certain size is secured at the head of the recording position of the magneto-optical disk, and the recording information character string of all contents recorded on the magneto-optical disk and the character string are supported in the recording information area. Record the address information of the contents. As a result, the record information area is read out first, and the record information character string and the address information are stored in the RAM (RANDOM ACCESS).
By storing it in MEMORY), the recorded contents can be easily searched and reproduced.

First, when the power switch 409 is pressed to turn on the power and the magneto-optical disk is inserted into the magneto-optical disk insertion slot 402, the recording information area in which the recording information character string and the address information are recorded is read out and stored in the RAM. To do. Then, the content of RAM is used as a content list for LC
Display on D403. Switch back the content you want to play back 4
11 or the feed switch 415 to select and play by pressing the play switch 413. When the reproduction starts, the number 40 of the content being reproduced is displayed on the LCD 403.
4, the reproduction time 405, the operating state 406, and the recorded information character string 407 are displayed. The reproduction is temporarily stopped by pressing the temporary stop switch 412 and the stop switch 414. When it is desired to print the contents list of the inserted magneto-optical disk as a label, the PRINT switch 417 is pressed to send the recording information character string from the RAM to the printer 416 to print the label.

The recording of the record information character string is performed by pressing the record switch 410 to record the record information character string, and the record information character string corresponding to the currently recorded content transmitted from the portable character string input unit is displayed. Received by the infrared receiver 408,
Store in the position of the corresponding recording number in RAM. And
Finally, when the eject switch 418 is pressed to receive a magneto-optical disk ejection command, the contents of the RAM are recorded in the storage information area of the magneto-optical disk. The magneto-optical disk is ejected after recording in the recording information area.

As described above, the recording / reproducing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention converts a record information character string representing a recorded content such as a music title into a character code string by using character recognition, and records the character code string. The contents are recorded on a medium, and at the time of reproduction, a list of recorded contents and a character code string corresponding to the reproduced contents are displayed. Further, the character code string representing the content recorded on the recording medium is read from the recording medium and the character code string is printed as a label.

Therefore, it is possible to see at a glance what is recorded on the recording medium by looking at the contents list, and it is possible to select the contents to be reproduced by looking at the contents list. By displaying the recorded information character string indicating the content at the time of reproducing the content, the content currently being reproduced can be understood at a glance. Since character recognition is used for inputting the recorded information character string, it is possible to save much labor and time as compared with the input using the conventional keyboard.

Further, since the label of the recording medium can be easily printed, it is possible to save much labor and time as compared with the conventional method such as handwriting or word processing.

Further, although the contents to be recorded are voices in this embodiment, other video and character data are also possible. In addition to the magneto-optical disk, the recording medium includes a magnetic tape and a magnetic disk.

[0024]

As described above, the recording / reproducing apparatus of the present invention converts a recording information character string representing a recorded content such as a song name into a character code string by using character recognition, and records the character code string. It is possible to record the data in a list and to display a list of recorded contents and a character code string corresponding to the reproduced contents during reproduction. Further, it is possible to read a character code string representing the content recorded on the recording medium from the recording medium and print the character code string as a label.

Therefore, it is possible to see at a glance what is recorded on the recording medium by looking at the content list, and it is possible to select the content to be reproduced by looking at the content list. By displaying the recorded information character string indicating the content at the time of reproducing the content, the content currently being reproduced can be understood at a glance. Since character recognition is used for inputting the recorded information character string, it is possible to save much labor and time as compared with the input using the conventional keyboard.

Further, since the label of the recording medium can be easily printed, it is possible to save much labor and time as compared with the conventional method such as handwriting or word processing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a recording / reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a radio program section in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an external view of a portable character string input unit of the recording / reproducing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view of the main body of the recording / reproducing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a character string recording unit in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a label printing unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 104 character recognition unit 111 printing unit 112 recording unit 113 reproducing unit 203 song name character string 305 recording information character string 407 recording information character string 416 printer

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An optical reading means for optically reading at least an image of a printed or handwritten recorded information character string representing at least a recorded title such as a song title, a program title, etc., and character recognition of the character string image to form a character code string. And a character code string recording means for recording the character code string on a recording medium. 2. A character code string reading means for reading a character code string recorded on a recording medium corresponding to a reproduced content at the time of reproduction, and a display means for displaying the read character code string. 1. The recording / reproducing apparatus according to 1. 3. A character code string reading means for reading at least a character code string representing the contents recorded on the recording medium from the recording medium, and a label printing means for printing the read character code string as a label. Recording / playback device.