Patent ID: 7260313

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording one or more still pictures and still picture group management information for managing said one or more still pictures as a still picture group onto a storage medium, said apparatus comprising: a memory storing said still picture group management information; means for recording said still picture group management information stored in said memory to said storage medium; means for selecting and recording corresponding still picture management information in said still picture group management information when a still picture is recorded, wherein if there is no original audio recorded at the same time said still picture was recorded, first still picture management information is selected, said first still picture management information being information on said still picture with no audio to be reproduced in synchronism with the reproduction of the still picture, and if there is an original audio recorded at the same time said still picture was recorded, second still picture management information is selected, said second still picture management information being information on said still picture with only the original audio recorded at the same time the still picture was recorded, and wherein the selected said first or second still picture management information is recorded in said still picture group management information in the same order of recording corresponding still pictures, and said recording apparatus further comprising: means for replacing the first or second still picture management information with other still picture management information when a post-recorded audio to be reproduced in synchronism with the reproduction of the still picture is recorded to the still picture already recorded in the storage medium, wherein if said still picture already recorded has no original audio, said first still picture management information is replaced with third still picture management information, said third still picture management information being information on a still picture with only the post-recorded audio added to the still picture already recorded, and if said still picture already recorded has the original audio, said second still picture management information is replaced by fourth still picture management information, said fourth still picture management information being information on a still picture with both of the original audio and a post-recorded audio added to the still picture already recorded.