Patent ID: 8774591
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content management apparatus including a recording unit configured to record a content, and an operation unit configured to accept a user operation required to append additional information to the content, said apparatus comprising: a processing unit configured to execute at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already recorded contents and a second process for recording additional information in association with a content to be recorded, and a third process for recording additional information in association with a currently recording content in response to user operations corresponding to the respective processes; and a control unit configured to disable user operations required to issue execution instructions of the first and second processes and to enable a user operation required to issue an execution instruction of the third process in the operation unit when a content recording operation of the recording unit is in progress, and to enable the user operation required to issue the execution instruction of at least one of the first and second processes and to disable the user operation required to issue the execution instruction of the third process in the operation unit when the content recording operation of the recording unit is not in progress.