Patent ID: 7583299
Filing Date: 2009-09-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A moving-image recording apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit for continuously obtaining, at a certain frame period, plural pieces of image data composing a moving image; a recording unit for successively writing onto a recording medium, at the certain frame period, the plural pieces of image data continuously obtained by the obtaining unit; a judging unit for judging, every frame period, whether or not any delay occurs in a data writing process by the recording unit, while the recoding unit writes the image data onto the recording medium at the certain frame period; a stopping unit for making the recording unit not write onto the recording medium the piece of image data obtained by the obtaining unit for a frame period in which the judging unit determines that a delay has occurred; and an adjusting unit for writing on the recording medium certain information for reproducing image data in place of the piece of image data that the stopping unit has made the recording unit not write, said certain information having a data amount that is less than a data amount of the piece of image data; wherein the judging unit determines that the delay has occurred in the data writing process when image data remains to be written onto the recording medium at a time for the recording unit to write a next piece of image data, and the adjusting unit writes said certain information on the recording medium after the recording unit has written the image data that remains to be written; and wherein the adjusting unit counts a number of frame periods for which the stopping unit has made the recording unit not write the pieces of image data while the judging unit determines that the delay has occurred in the data writing process, and the adjusting unit writes on the recording medium, in one lump, said certain information for reproducing the image data for the counted number of frame periods after the recording unit has written the image data that remains to be written.