Patent ID: 8817174

Claim:
An information recording apparatus for recording video information obtained from a sensor, comprising: a face detecting unit, which is configured to detect a face of a person among the video information obtained from said sensor; a face detection switching unit, which is configured to switch a setup of valid/invalid of a face detecting function by said face detecting unit; a power-saving controller unit, which is configured to execute a power-saving control; a recording unit, which is configured to record the video information inputted from said sensor onto a recording medium; a controller unit, wherein said controller unit executes a control for reducing an electric power consumption of the information recording apparatus, by said power-saving controller unit, when: no face of the person is detected by said face detecting unit, irrespective of whether the face detecting function of said face detecting unit is set to be valid by means of said face detection switching unit, and when the face of the person is not detected by the face detecting unit; a power-saving level setup unit, which is configured to set up a power-saving level, which is determined from a volume of electric power consumption to be reduced by said power-saving controller unit, wherein said power-saving controller unit executes the power-saving control upon basis of the video information, which is set up by said power-saving level setup unit.