Patent ID: 6850690

Claim:
An information recording apparatus for recording record information of particular one kind onto a record medium, on which the record information and reservation information to perform a reserved recording operation for the record information are recordable, the reservation information comprising: a scheduled time to start recording onto the record medium the record information of said particular one kind, which is set in advance for respective one of record mediums including the record medium, among the record information of a plurality of different kinds which are recordable on the record mediums; and a scheduled time to stop recording onto the record medium the record information of said particular one kind, the apparatus comprising: a read out device for reading out the reservation information from the record medium; an extraction device for extracting the record information of said particular one kind from among the record information of the different kinds which are inputted from the external; a record device for starting recording onto the record medium the extracted record information of said particular one kind when it is the scheduled time to start recording and for stopping recording onto the record medium the extracted record information of said particular one kind when it is the schedule time to stop recording, on the basis of the read out reservation information; and a memory device for storing the reservation information separately from the record medium, wherein the record device records the record information of said particular one kind in accordance with the reservation information recorded on the record medium in preference to the reservation information stored in the memory device if the reservation information is recorded on the record medium, and the record device records the record information of said particular one kind in accordance with the reservation information stored in the memory device if the reservation information is not recorded on the record medium.