Patent 7197232 was granted and assigned to Hitachi on March, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A digital information recording-reproducing apparatus for recording a digital information signal which includes a recording circuit for recording the digital information signal together with control information, and a reproducing circuit for detecting the recorded control information at a time the recorded digital information signal is to be reproduced, and reproducing the recorded digital information signal only if the detected control information satisfies a predetermined condition.