Patent ID: 8073313

Claim:
A moving picture data processing apparatus for outputting moving picture data, comprising: a moving picture input section which receives an input of the moving picture data for which a standard screen rate and one or more screen rates different from the standard screen rate are switchable at an arbitrary timing; a time information addition processing section which adds, to the moving picture data inputted to the moving picture input section, input time information which is information about an input time at which a predetermined picture frame of the moving picture data is inputted to the moving picture input section; a timer section which counts a time; an input start time acquiring section which acquires an input start time for the moving picture data at the moving picture input section, from the timer section; an input time information generating section which calculates the input time information by integrating the time information which is compliant with the screen rate of the moving picture data to be inputted to the time information addition processing section and which corresponds to a display interval for the picture frame, with the input start time; a moving picture playback section which plays back picture frames of the moving picture data to which the input time information is added, at the standard screen rate; a time information extracting section which extracts the input time information from the moving picture data in synchronism with the playback operation by the moving picture playback section; and a moving picture recording section which records the moving picture data to which the input time information is added on a recording medium, in which the input time information generating section includes (i) an integrator configured to receive a timing signal associated with a current respective screen rate which indicates a data processing timing for the respective picture frames and, to utilize the timing signal, to integrate a specific integrated value for the current respective screen rate with regard to the input start time at the data processing timing to obtain an integrated value, and (ii) a converting section configured to convert the integrated value to the input time information expressed in a predetermined time unit, and in which during operation the moving picture recording section records the moving picture data with the input time information in the predetermined time unit on the recording medium.