Patent ID: 7671903

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: an information obtaining unit that obtains record data including at least one of image data which is provided through an image pickup device that captures an image of a subject, voice data which is provided through a microphone, and external data which is provided through an external input terminal; a recording unit connected to said information obtaining unit to receive the record data from the information obtaining unit, and record the record data in a recording medium; a transfer unit connected to the recording unit and the obtaining unit to transfer recorded data from the recording medium to external equipment and to add transfer information to transferred recorded data; and an erase unit for erasing at least part of record data from the recording medium; wherein the erase unit executes one of a plurality of data erase functions, including at least an all data erase function and a transferred data erase function, wherein the all data erase function erases all recorded data from the recording medium regardless of the transfer information, and wherein the transferred data erase function automatically selects the transferred data based on the transfer information and erases such transferred data from the recording medium.