Patent ID: 7076151

Claim:
An image recording apparatus, comprising: first recording control means for controlling recording of an inputted image signal into a first recording region of a recording medium; fetching means for fetching a frame number of a representative picture of the image signal; first calculation means for calculating a GOP number of a GOP of the image signal which includes an intra-picture necessary to play back the representative picture based on the frame number fetched by said fetching means; second recording control means for controlling recording of recorded position information corresponding to a recorded position on the recording medium of the GOP of the GOP number calculated by said first calculation means into a second recording region of the recording medium; second calculation means for calculating an offset between the intra-picture and the representative picture in the GOP of the GOP number calculated by said first calculation means; and third recording control means for controlling recording of the offset calculated by said second calculation means into a third recording region of the recording medium.