Patent ID: 8107787
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording and reproducing device comprising: sound collecting means for collecting and outputting sound information corresponding to a result of sound collection; photographing means for photographing and outputting still image information corresponding to a result of photographing; recording means for converting said sound information to files in message units and recording the files on a predetermined recording medium, and recording said still image information on the recording medium in association with a corresponding file of said sound information in response to a predetermined first external operation; display means for displaying images based on said still image information associated with respective said files of said sound information; and reproducing means for reproducing a file of said sound information associated with an image selected from among said images displayed by said display means by a predetermined second external operation, wherein said recording means sets, for each said file of said sound information, one of said images based on said still image information associated with said file as a representative image of said file, said recording means sets, as said representative image of said file, an image based on said still image information associated with said file in a period of a predetermined extension time from a sound recording start time point, the period of the predetermined extension of time being substantially 30 seconds.