Patent ID: 7664368
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A portable information recording/play-back apparatus comprising: an imaging module which images video information; a first recording/play-back module which records the video information into a first recording medium, or which plays-back the video information from the first recording medium; a second recording/play-back module which records the video information into a second recording medium that consumes larger power for recording/play-back than the first recording medium, or which plays-back the video information from the second recording medium; an external power source input terminal through which power is suppliable from outside; a battery; a display which displays the video information; and a controller which controls at least the imaging module, the display and the first and second recording/play-back module, wherein the controller judges whether the mode, controlling the first recording/play-back module and the second recording/play-back module, is: an imaging mode, controlling so that the first recording/play-back module or the second recording/play-back module records a video information imaged by the imaging module into the first recording medium or the second recording medium; or a dubbing mode, controlling so that the first recording/play-back module plays back a video information from the first recording medium and the second recording/play-back module records the video information, play-backed from the first recording medium, into the second recording medium; and wherein the controller controls so that: when the information recording/play-back apparatus is operating on the battery and recording is performed into the first recording medium in the state of the imaging mode, the operation to the second recording medium is stopped and the operation to the display is permitted; and when the information recording/play-back apparatus is operating on the battery and during the period when a dubbing operation is being performed in the state of the dubbing mode, the play-back of the video information from the first recording medium and the recording of the video information into the second recording medium are carried out and the operation to the display is stopped.