Image recording/reproducing apparatus

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a video recording/reproducing apparatus which can distinguish commercial message portions even in the same broadcasting mode.
In a video recording/reproducing apparatus including recording/reproducing means for recording television broadcasting signals to a recording medium and reproducing the broadcasting signals from the recording medium, the object of the present invention described above can be accomplished by a video recording/reproducing apparatus which comprises audio-free portion detection means for detecting audio-free portions from audio signals in television broadcasting signals when the television broadcasting signals are recorded by the recording/reproducing means, commercial message portion detection means for detecting commercial message portions in the television broadcasting signals by the time intervals among a plurality of the audio-free portions detected by the audio-free portion detection means, memory means for storing information of recording positions of the commercial message portions detected by the commercial message portion detection means to the recording medium, and control means for controlling reproduction from the recording medium at the time of reproduction of the television broadcasting signals from the recording medium by the recording/reproducing means, on the basis of the information of the recording positions of the commercial message portions stored in the memory means to the recording medium, so that reproduction can be carried out while the commercial message portions are skipped, at the recording positions of the commercial message portions to the recording medium.
Preferably, the video recording/reproducing apparatus described above further comprises video signal detection means for detecting changing points of video signals from the video signals in the television broadcasting signals at the time of recording of the television broadcasting signals by the recording/reproducing means, wherein the commercial message portion detection means detects the commercial message portions in the television broadcasting signals on the basis of the time intervals among a plurality of audio-free portions and the time intervals of the changing points of a plurality of video signals detected by the audio-free portion detection means and the video signal detection means, respectively