Patent ID: 7187844

Claim:
An information recording apparatus comprising: a processing unit for processing recording information to be recorded and for generating processed information; a storage unit for temporarily storing the processed information; a recording unit for recording the processed information onto an information storage medium; a position storing unit for storing, at a time of interrupting recording of the processed information, an interruption storage position which is a storage position in the storage unit of the processed information corresponding to a timing at which interruption is instructed; an interrupting unit for interrupting recording of the processed information after storing the interruption storage position; and a restart unit for restarting the recording of the processed information based on the stored interruption storage position, wherein the processing unit fades out the recording information after the interruption instruction timing to generate the processed information, wherein the storage unit stores the generated processed information onto an area in the storage unit where the processed information is to be stored after the interruption instruction timing, and wherein the interrupting unit reads out the fading-out processed information from the storage unit and stores the processed information onto the information storage medium, and then interrupts the recording of the processed information.