Patent ID: 8428441
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a video recording unit configured to video record in parallel a plurality of broadcast programs received in parallel; a video recording indicator light configured to indicate visually whether video recording is in progress or not; and a video recording indicator light control unit, being furnished as a part of a basic input/output system (BIOS), configured to make the video recording indicator light turn on when the video recording of one or more broadcast programs is in progress and make the video recording indicator light turn off when the video recording of any broadcast program is not in progress, wherein said video recording indicator light control unit comprises a counter which is incremented by one at a start notification of said video recording from said video recording unit and decremented by one at an end notification of the video recording therefrom, and a control logic configured to make said video recording indicator light turn on if a value of the counter is one or greater, while making the video recording indicator light turn off and initializing the aforementioned counter to zero, if a value of the counter is zero or smaller.