Patent ID: 8364012

Claim:
A signal processing apparatus comprising: a recording/reproducing unit performing recording/reproduction with respect to a recording medium; a communication unit performing communication with a terminal apparatus, which transmits time information as mark time information with a timing designated by an operation; and a control unit, wherein the control unit executes a pairing process for pairing one or more terminal apparatus operable to executing a marking program; a registering process for registering a marker ID for one or more terminal apparatuses; a correspondence relationship specification processing to, after the communication unit receives the mark time information transmitted from the tern mal apparatus, (1) generate a clip table based on (a) the marker ID of the terminal apparatus from which the mark time information is received (b) information of a clip to be recorded, and (c) information related to recording start time of the clip to be recorded, and (2) specify the correspondence relationship between the received mark time information and time-series data recorded onto the recording medium on the basis of information about a recording start time of time-series data recorded onto the recording medium, and a mark position recording control processing to control the recording/reproducing unit on the basis of the correspondence relationship between the mark time information and time-series data specified by the correspondence relationship specification processing such that information about a mark position to be specified by the received mark time information is recorded onto the recording medium in association with time-series data, wherein the terminal apparatus stores terminal identification information for identifying the terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus lists the mark time information and transmits information, in which the terminal identification information is put on the list, as time list information, the control unit further executes an identification information acquisition processing to acquire the terminal identification information stored in the terminal apparatus, in the recording start time recording control processing, control is performed such that the information about the recording start time acquired by the recording start time acquisition processing and the terminal identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition process are recorded onto the recording medium.