Patent ID: 8340497

Claim:
A recording apparatus to record data in a non-transitory recording medium, comprising: an input portion to input moving picture data; an encode portion to encode the moving picture data input by the input portion; a storage portion which uses a first storage area to store first-frame image data, i.e., image data for a first frame contained in the moving picture data encoded by the encode portion, and uses a second storage area to store the moving picture data except the first-frame image data, the first-frame image data and the moving picture data except the first-frame image data being encoded based on a same file format standard; a recording portion to record the moving picture data stored by the storage portion in the recording medium; a decode portion to decode the moving picture data encoded by the encode portion; and a thumbnail image generation portion to generate a thumbnail image based on the first-frame image data, wherein the recording portion records, as a moving picture file, the first-frame image data stored in the first storage area together with the moving picture data stored in the second storage area except the first-frame image data, wherein the decode portion decodes the first-frame image data stored in the first storage area, wherein the thumbnail image generation portion generates thumbnail image data based on the first-frame image data decoded by the decode portion, wherein the recording portion composes a thumbnail image file from the thumbnail image data generated by the thumbnail image generation portion and records the thumbnail image file in association with the recorded moving picture file, and wherein the thumbnail file is recorded with the same name as the moving picture file except an extension.