Patent ID: 8401361
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: a camera portion for creating video information by imaging a subject; a signal processing portion for recording video information from the camera portion or from the outside onto first and second recording media, or reading the video information from the first and second recording media; a display portion on which images represented by the video information are displayed; an input portion for entering information for selecting images from the images displayed on the display portion; and a control portion for controlling all of these portions; wherein said signal processing portion accepts video information recorded on one of the first and second recording media that acts as a dubbing source, recognizes face images from the accepted video information, displays the recognized face images on the display portion, registers face images selected from the face images displayed on the display portion according to the information entered from the input portion, makes a first decision on a basis of the registered face images as to whether sizes of face images selected from the video information are appropriate when a dubbing instruction is given from the control portion, omits the video information when a result of the first decision is that the sizes of the face images are not appropriate, makes a second decision as to whether the sizes are more appropriate than a held image when the result of the first decision is that the sizes are appropriate, makes thumbnail images from images including the face images when the second decision is that the sizes are appropriate, extracts the images including the thumbnail images from the dubbing source, and executes processing for dubbing the extracted images onto the other of the first and second recording media that acts as a dubbing destination.