Patent ID: 7058287
Filing Date: 2006-06-06
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information recording apparatus which records an audio signal by relating the audio signal to an image signal when the image signal or the audio signal is recorded on a recording medium having plural recording areas which differ from each other, said apparatus comprising: a designator for designating, in predetermined program mode, from among the plural recording areas of the recording medium, a recording area where the image signal to be related to an audio signal to be recorded has been recorded, wherein said designator prohibits designation of a recording area corresponding to an unrecorded image signal which is to be related to a recorded audio signal and prohibits designation of a recording area in which another audio signal has been recorded; a controller for receiving a designation result provided by said designator, producing a recording order program for controlling the recording order and the recording areas in which are to be recorded the audio signals related to the image signals, and storing the recording order program in a memory; and a recording unit, controllable to record the audio signal in a recording area, designated according to the designation result stored in the memory from among the plural recording areas of the recording medium.