Patent ID: 8233767

Claim:
An information recording apparatus comprising: a recording section for recording audio/video data externally input; a marker setup instruction section for receiving an instruction from a user, for setting a marker in the audio/video data; a control section which, if the marker setup instruction section receives the instruction from the user while the recording section is recording audio/video data, sets the marker at a location corresponding to a scene within the audio/video data that occurred earlier in time than a time of instruction reception for setting the marker; a memory which stores time-shift information, which can be set or changed by the user through a user interface, setting a time interval between a scene recorded at the time of instruction reception and a scene that is to be marked with a marker, wherein the control section sets a marker by using the time-shift information in the memory; and a display section for displaying the audio/video data to be recorded, wherein the control section causes the display section to display the number of time-shift seconds or minutes in accordance with the time-shift information in the memory.