Patent ID: 8346051
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus capable of recording information on a recording medium on a cluster basis, the recording medium having a recording region in which a smallest unit for erasing recorded information is a block, and the cluster being a unit smaller than the block, said recording apparatus comprising: a reception unit configured to receive a request for starting recording a file and a request for ending recording the file; a recording unit configured: to record a header section of the file and a data section following the header section, from a beginning of the block in the recording region, in the case where the request for starting recording is received by said reception unit; and to update the header section and record the updated header section on an other cluster different from the cluster on which the header section before update is recorded, in the case where the request for ending recording is received by said reception unit; and a correction unit configured to correct management information indicating a connection order of information recorded on each of the clusters so that the updated header section is followed by the data section, in the case where the updated header section is recorded by said recording unit on the other cluster, the management information being included by the recording medium.