Patent ID: 7133594
Filing Date: 2006-11-07
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital recording apparatus that obtains a digital stream including a plurality of frames, while recording the digital stream on a digital recording medium, the digital recording apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit operable to obtain, during a recording, an instruction to perform a predetermined procedure in which a recording area for the recording has to be changed from a first recording area to a second recording area which is not necessarily continuous to the first recording area; and an execution control unit operable to, in case that the obtaining unit obtains the instruction and when the number of frames which are recorded in the first recording area is a predetermined number or more, (1) execute the predetermined procedure, and (2) allow the recording area to be changed from the first recording area to the second recording area after the execution of the procedure, wherein the digital recording apparatus is operable to record the digital stream as one object or to partition the digital stream into a plurality of objects and record the partitioned objects, wherein each of the objects is recorded on a continuous recording area on the digital recording medium, and the continuous recording area is not necessarily continuous with other recording areas, wherein the obtaining unit includes: wherein recording times off all frames included in a same object are continuous, wherein the predetermined procedure includes a recording pause, and wherein the other procedures include cancellation of the recording pause, wherein the execution control unit includes: