Patent ID: 7911508
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A portable recording/reproducing apparatus for recording predefined information onto a recording medium and reproducing the recorded information, the recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: audio recording means for collecting an external sound and outputting audio information in accordance with the results of sound collection; shooting means for shooting an image and outputting motion picture information in accordance with results of shooting; display means for displaying a motion picture in accordance with the motion picture information; retention means for movably retaining the shooting means between a first position defining a ready-for-shooting state and a second position defining a storage state in which shooting cannot be performed; detection means for detecting whether the shooting means is retained in the ready-for-shooting state by the retention means; and control means, which, when the detection means detects at the beginning of audio information recording that the shooting means is retained in the ready-for-shooting state, exercises control so that the motion picture based on the motion picture information appears on the display means.