Patent ID: 7953733
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A recording/playback apparatus constructed to record image files and audio files, comprising: a mode selection unit which selects one operation mode from an image recording mode, an image playback mode and an audio mode; a determination unit which determines a mode selected by said mode selection unit; a management device which manages a DCIM directory and an audio directory for recording an audio file immediately below a root directory at an uppermost level in a hierarchical structure of a file system of a recording medium, such that image files are recorded in the DCIM directory, and such that image files recorded in the audio directory are not handled by the management device; and a control device which controls to analyze a directory of the image file recorded inside the DCIM directory while declining to analyze the audio directory after the recording/playback apparatus is activated and before said determination unit determines the mode selected by said mode selection unit, which controls said determination unit to determine the mode selected by said mode selection unit after the analysis of the image files recorded in the DCIM directory has finished, and which controls to analyze the audio directory when said determination unit determines that the mode is the audio mode.