Patent ID: 7177531

Claim:
A record and playback apparatus for recording and playing back an image by using a storage medium capable of random accessing, comprising: quantitative display means of visually quantitative displaying a record time of a record-completed image recorded in the storage medium and the remaining recordable time; indicator control means of displaying at least one of a playback indicator indicating a playback position in the quantitative display of an in-playing back image or a record indicator indicating a record position in the quantitative display of an in-recording image; and indicator selection and execution means of selecting at least one of the playback indicator, the record indicator and the quantitative display each of which is a display object, and of executing a predetermined process based on a predetermined command to be input and the display object to be selected; and further comprising an end indicator control means of displaying an end indicator indicating an end prospected position of the in-recording image in the quantitative display.