Patent ID: 7148883

Claim:
An information recording and reproducing apparatus, comprising: a recording mode selecting device that includes a recording position designating portion for designating a certain position in an input area; a recording switch that outputs a recording start signal and a recording end signal of sound data in response to a switching of the switch in response to the recording position designating portion indicating that the certain position is within a certain area of the input area; a coordinate on data detecting device that detects coordinate data of the certain position in the input area designated by the position designating portion; a designated coordinate data storing device that stores the coordinate data detected by the coordinate data detecting device as designated coordinate data; a written information inputting device that includes an input position designating portion for inputting written information by designating the certain position in the input area, wherein the coordinate data detecting device detects coordinate data of a position designated by the position designating portion of the written information inputting device, wherein the written information inputting device further includes an erase designating portion for erasing the written information by designating the certain position in the input area; a sound data storing device that starts recording the sound data in association with the designated coordinate data in response to an output of the recording start signal and that ends recording in response to an output of the recording end signal; and a sound data erasing device that erases the sound data from the sound data storage device if all of the written information is erased from the input area.