Patent ID: 7471877
Filing Date: 2008-12-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image recorder comprising: an image-recording unit which records images acquired from different image-obtaining units and comprises a television program-recording unit which records television programs being broadcasted and an image input unit which inputs images having additional time information to the image-recording unit; a time period displaying unit which displays time periods for indicating time on a screen and comprises a clock unit which measures time, the time period displaying unit updates the time periods displayed on the screen based on the measured time; a recorded image-displaying unit which displays information about the images recorded by the image-recording unit on the screen for each of the different image-obtaining units so that a time related to each of the images acquired from the image-obtaining units is displayed in accordance with the time indicated by the time periods, and comprises a recorded-program-displaying unit which displays the time the television program was broadcasted in accordance with the time indicated by the time periods and an input image-displaying unit which displays information of the images input by the image input unit on the screen so that the additional time information is displayed in accordance with the time indicated by the time periods; a connecting unit which connects an external system to the image recorder; and an identifying unit which identifies the external system connected to the image recorder, wherein the image input unit inputs images transferred from the external system connected to the image recorder, wherein the recorded image-displaying unit displays the information of the images input by the image input unit in a row along the time periods displayed on the screen based on the time information added to the images input by the image input unit, and wherein when the results of the identification of the identifying unit indicate that an image transferred from the external system has already been recorded, an image newly transferred from the external system is additionally displayed by the image-recording unit in the same row as the images recorded.