Patent ID: 7133226

Claim:
A data accumulating apparatus, comprising: storage media; a receiving unit for receiving digital raw data about specific information from an external electronic device; a first accumulating unit for accumulating said digital raw data received by said receiving unit into said storage media; a compressing unit for retrieving said digital raw data from said storage media, and producing digital coded data in association with said digital raw data retrieved from said storage media by compressing said digital raw data retrieved from said storage media into said digital coded data; and a second accumulating unit for accumulating said digital coded data produced by said compressing unit into said storage media, wherein said receiving unit includes a compensation unit for measuring an amount of said digital raw data received from said external electronic device over a predetermined period of time and an amount of said digital raw data accumulated in said storage media by said first accumulating unit over said predetermined period of time and for updating the processing rate of the first accumulating unit based on the measured amounts of said digital raw data received and accumulated.