Patent ID: 7382966

Claim:
An apparatus for recording operation information synchronously with video or music reproduced by a reproduction device, said apparatus comprising: a timer that generates a first time code; an operator section that detects operation of one or more operator controls and generates operation data by indicative of the detected operation of each of said operator controls; a storage section; a control section that causes said storage section to store the operation data of each of said operator controls, generated by said operator section, along with said first time code generated by said timer as time information of the operation data; a reception section that recieves a second time code of the video or music reproduced by the reproduction device, said second time code being of lower resolution than said first time code; and a time code correction section that controls said timer, according to said second time code received by said reception section, to generator said first time code corrected on the basis of said second time code, wherein said time code correction section is capable of correcting said first time code in correspondence with any one of a plurality of types of second time code of different resolution, and wherein the resolution of said first time code is a common multiple of respective resolution of said plurality of types of second time code.