Patent ID: 7760878

Claim:
An apparatus for recording photographed image information in a removable recording medium and playing back the recorded image information from the removable recording medium, wherein the removable recording medium can be attached to or removed from the apparatus, said apparatus comprises a nonvolatile memory other than the removable recording medium, said apparatus being configured to store other information, which is different from the image information, in the nonvolatile memory, the other information includes (1) a personal information for identifying a user and (2) a playback contents information representing time when the recorded image information was played back from the recoding medium, (3) a title of the image information played back, and (4) unplayed back portion of the image information, wherein the apparatus displays a first confirmation window to ask an operator whether the personal information is to be erased, if an instruction to erase the personal information is issued by the operator, the apparatus erases the personal information from the nonvolatile memory, and if an instruction to erase the personal information is not issued by the operator, the apparatus automatically erases the personal information from the nonvolatile memory after a predetermined period of time has expired, and wherein the apparatus further displays a second confirmation window different from the first confirmation window to ask the operator whether the playback contents information is to be erased, if an instruction to erase the playback contents information is issued by the operator, the apparatus erases the playback contents information from the nonvolatile memory.