Patent ID: 8218056

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input image signals; a recording and reproducing unit configured to control recording a clip, including one of the image signals inputted by the input unit, on a randomly accessible recording medium and reproducing the one image signal from the randomly accessible recording medium; an output unit configured to output to a display device one of the image signals inputted by the input unit and an index screen including a plurality of representative images of a plurality of clips each including one of the image signals recorded on the randomly accessible recording medium; a selecting unit configured to select one of the plurality of representative images in the index screen displayed on the display device; an instruction receiving unit configured to receive an index display instruction for displaying the index screen; and a control unit configured to control the recording and reproducing unit and the output unit, wherein in response to receipt of the index display instruction by the instruction receiving unit during outputting of one of the image signals inputted by the input unit to the display device and recording of the clip including one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium, the control unit controls the recording and reproducing unit and the output unit so that the output unit switches an output to the display device from one of the image signals inputted by the input unit to the index screen including the plurality of representative images of the plurality of clips other than the clip including one of the inputted image signals being recorded on the randomly accessible recording medium and outputs, to the display device, the index screen including the plurality of representative images of the plurality of clips other than the clip including one of the inputted image signals being recorded on the randomly accessible recording medium while the recording and reproducing unit records the clip including one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium, and wherein if an instruction for reproducing the image signal of the clip corresponding to the representative image selected by the selecting unit from the plurality of representative images in the index screen displayed on the display device during recording of the clip including one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium is issued, the control unit controls the recording and reproducing unit so as to reproduce the image signal of a clip corresponding to the selected representative image from the randomly accessible recording medium in parallel with recording the clip of one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium.