Patent ID: 7792409

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a video recording unit for video recording a received broadcast program; a video recording indicator light for indicating visually whether the video recording is in progress or not; and a video recording indicator light control unit, being furnished as a part of a basic input/output system (BIOS) and including a counter that indicates the number of broadcast programs being video recorded, for controlling a turning on and off of the video recording indicator light depending on the number indicated by the counter, wherein the counter is incremented by one at a start notification of said video recording from said video recording unit and decremented by one at an end notification of the video recording therefrom, and said video recording indicator light control unit comprises a control logic for making said video recording indicator light turn on if a value of the counter is one or greater, while making the video recording indicator light turn off and initializing the aforementioned counter to zero, if a value of the counter is zero or smaller.