Patent ID: 7773818

Claim:
A digital video recording device to be connected to a digital video signal output device via an IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers) 1394 serial bus, the digital video recording device comprising: an operation means for commanding and operating the digital video signal output device and the digital video recording device itself; an IEEE 1394 interface for sending and receiving a control command signal and its response signal, and also sending and receiving stream data, to and from the digital video signal output device; a video recording means for recording, on a digital recording medium, stream data received from the digital video signal output device via the IEEE 1394 interface; an image selection means for selecting a moving image from moving images contained in the stream data received from the digital signal output device via the IEEE 1394 interface, in which the selected moving image is to be used for a candidate image for a title screen and/or an ending screen; a moving image extracting means for extracting the moving image, selected by the image selection means, from the moving images contained in the stream data received from the digital signal output device via the IEEE 1394 interface; a storage means for temporarily storing the moving image extracted by the moving image extracting means; an image converting means for converting the moving image stored in the storage means into a still image; a title screen selection means for selecting, from one or more still images generated by the conversion by the image converting means, a still image to be a title screen and/or an ending screen for a file of stream data recorded by the video recording means; and a data associating means for associating the still image selected by the title screen selection means with the file of stream data recorded by the video recording means.