Patent ID: 8255433

Claim:
A recorder for recording data files, including at least one of video data and audio data, on a storage medium, the recorder comprising: a status detecting section for sensing that the recorder is in a non-recording status in which the recorder is performing no recording operations; a processing section for performing, when the non-recording status is detected, processing to get ready to transmit at least one data file, which was recorded on the storage medium at one of a predetermined reference time and a time after the predetermined reference time, toward a server and generating at least one data file to transmit, wherein the processing section performs at least one of format conversion processing and aggregation processing of aggregating multiple data files together; a recording section for recording the at least one data file to transmit on the storage medium; and a transmitting section for transmitting the at least one data file to transmit toward the server, wherein the processing section performs the format conversion processing on the at least one data file as the processing to get ready to transmit the data file toward the server the processing section changes the formats of the at least one data file into a format compatible with the server, and the at least one data file includes video data, and wherein the processing section changes the formats of video represented by the video data in at least one of the frame rate, scanning method, number of vertical pixels, number of horizontal pixels, and video data encoding method thereof.