Patent ID: 7706221

Claim:
A portable information recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: an image pickup module to take an image of video information of a subject; a first and a second recording/reproducing module; a buffer memory for storing information temporarily; a temperature detection module; and a control module controlling the first and second recording/reproducing module, wherein: the control module controls such that the amount of information stored in the buffer memory is changed depending on the temperature detected by the temperature detection module, and the control means, in the case where information is dubbed from the first recording/reproducing module to the second recording/reproducing module by battery drive; alternately switches between a first mode and a second mode if the temperature detected by the temperature detection module is less than a first temperature, in the first mode, information in the first recording/reproducing module being reproduced and the information signal being stored in the buffer memory and, in the second mode, the information in the buffer memory being recorded in the second recording/reproducing module; alternately switches between the first mode and the second mode if the temperature detected by the temperature detection module is equal to or higher than the first temperature and less than a second temperature higher than the first temperature, in the first mode, operation of the head portion of the second recording/reproducing module being put into a lower power consumption state than in the recording state or in the reproducing states and, in the second mode, the first recording/reproducing module being put into a lower power consumption state than in the recording state or in the reproducing state; and alternately switches between the first mode and the second mode if the temperature detected by the temperature detection module is equal to or higher than the second temperature, in the first mode, the operation of both the head portion of the second recording/reproducing module and the recording medium driving portion of the second recording/reproducing module being stopped and the second recording/reproducing module being put into a lower power consumption state than in the recording state or in the reproducing state and, in the second mode, the first recording/reproducing mode being put into a lower power consumption state than in the recording state or in the reproducing state.