Patent ID: 7627560

Claim:
A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: recording means for recording data distributed to the apparatus, said distributed data including video data and music data of background music in a television program; distributed data holding means including a computer readable media for holding data recorded by the recording means; music data detecting means including a processor for detecting a start time and an end time of the music data included in the data held in the distributed data holding means; first song information searching means for searching first song information including metadata concerning the music data of the background music on the basis of a characteristic waveform of the music data; association information creating means for creating association information in which the video data, the music data, the data held by the distributed data holding means from the start time to the end time of the music data, and the first song information are associated in computer readable memory with one another; and association information holding means for holding the association information for subsequent simultaneous display of the video data, playback of the background music and display of the first song information after retrieval of the information.