Patent ID: 7346789

Claim:
A multimedia reproducing apparatus comprising: a central processing unit which executes a program; a main memory for data to be written to; a ROM which contains an operating system including a system program and a utility program; and a control unit which controls a suspend function of storing data indicating at least either contents of display or contents of execution prior to interruption of a power supply to the central processing unit as save data so that the power supply, after interrupted, can be resumed from a state where the contents of display and the contents of execution prior to the interruption of the power supply are restored, wherein: the main memory includes a first area for the save data to be written to when the suspend function is executed, and a second area for data of an external program to be written to when the external program is executed by the central processing unit; and the system program makes the central processing unit execute the functions of writing the save data to the first area when the suspend function is executed, and writing the utility program from the ROM to the first area when the suspend function is not executed and the utility program is called from the external program written to and executed in the second area.