Patent ID: 7970259
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A portable recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data to and/or from a storage medium having a data area and a management area, the data area storing data, the management area storing management information for managing the data, the apparatus comprising: reproducing means for reproducing the data corresponding to management information that is read from the storage medium, wherein data stored on the storage medium is managed and reproduced in a unit of a program corresponding to the management information; input means for receiving a user's input; stopping means for stopping reproducing the program of data according to the user's input inputted by said input means; and updating means for updating the management information so that an address of the storage medium corresponding to a stop position of the program of reproduced data decided by the user's input becomes the end address of the program of reproduced data, wherein before said updating means updates the management information, said reproducing means check-reproduces a portion that is erased and that is after the address of the storage medium corresponding to the stop position of the program of reproduced data, and wherein said updating means updates the management information to erase a portion of data, based on only one stop position decided by the user's input, so that a the portion of data between the address of the storage medium corresponding to the stop position of the program of reproduced data and a previously designated end address of the program of reproduced data is erased and the address of the stop position becomes the end address of the program of reproduced data.