Patent ID: 8160430

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a screen information generation unit that, when again generating screen information of a recording medium recorded with plural image data, the screen information on which a screen for selecting the plural image data is based, and a recording state of the image data when the screen information was generated, selects a range of the screen information necessary to be rewritten in accordance with a recording state of image data in the recording medium when previous screen information was generated and a recording state of image data in the recording medium at a present time, and updates only the selected range of the screen information; and a recording control unit for recording screen information generated by the screen information generation unit in the recording medium, wherein the recording medium is an optical disc which has been previously subjected to a first finalizing process, and wherein during a second finalizing process which occurs after the first finalizing process, the screen information generation unit performs judging operation to determine whether or not tie first finalizing process of the optical disc was performed by a type of recording apparatus which is the same as that of the recording apparatus, and only when a determination result thereof indicates that the type of recording apparatus that performed the first finalizing process is the same as that of the recording apparatus the screen information generation unit causes all Video Object Set for Video Manager Menu (VMGM_VOBS) information recorded on the optical disc to be held and not deleted and causes any necessary updates thereof to be completed.