Patent ID: 7859578
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: acquiring unit adapted to acquire moving image data; encoding unit adapted to encode the moving image data acquired by the acquiring unit according to a target encoding data rate, and output encoded moving image data of the target encoding data rate; recording unit adapted to record the encoded moving image data to a recording medium; computing unit adapted to compute a recordable duration for recording the encoded moving image data of the target encoding data rate in the recording medium; detecting unit adapted to detect that the recordable duration computed by the computing unit is less than a predetermined threshold; display unit adapted to automatically display on a display apparatus a setting screen for allowing a user to set a desired recording duration for the moving image data, in response to the detecting unit detecting that the recordable duration is less than the predetermined threshold; and control unit adapted to, if the desired recording duration set via the setting screen is longer than the recordable duration for the moving image data of the target encoding data rate, automatically reduce the target encoding data rate so that the recordable duration for recording the encoded moving image data of the reduced target encoding data rate is longer than or equal to the desired recording duration, and control the encoding unit to encode the moving image data acquired by the acquiring unit according to the reduced target encoding data rate and to output the encoded moving image data of the reduced target encoding data rate.