Patent ID: 8145031

Claim:
A recording apparatus which records an input video signal and an input audio signal, said apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to receive the video signal and the audio signal, a mode of the video signal being a second mode having been pulldown-converted from a first mode; a control unit configured to detect a discontinuity of a pulldown sequence of the input video signal; a recording command information generation unit configured to generate: video recording command information which indicates whether or not to record the video signal of the second mode as the video signal of the first mode; and audio recording command information which indicates whether or not to record the audio signal; and a recording unit configured to provide to-be-recorded video data and to-be-recorded audio data based on the video signal and the audio signal indicated to be recorded respectively according to the generated video recording command information and the generated audio recording command information, wherein said control unit is configured to determine a state of recording as a non-record state, where the video signal and the audio signal are not to be recorded, for a predetermined period of time following the discontinuity detection of the pulldown sequence, so that, by suspending the recording of the video signal, the pulldown sequence of the recorded video signal becomes continuous, and said recording command information generation unit is configured to generate the video recording command information and the audio recording command information according to the determined state of recording.