Patent ID: 7522051

Claim:
A recording control apparatus, comprising: a communication processing unit for receiving position information on an RFID tag from a tag communication device which can measure the position of the RFID tag through radio communication with the RFID tag; a database control unit for storing the position information on the RFID tag received by the communication processing unit in a database; and a recording control unit for controlling recording operation of a plurality of recording devices disposed at a plurality of positions, wherein: the recording control unit estimates the movement direction of the RFID tag based on the time-sequential record of the position information on the RFID tag stored in the database, reads disposition information on the plural recording devices from a database storing this disposition information to specify any of the recording devices to be operated to record a region including the location of the RFID tag based on the position information and the movement direction of the RFID tag, and controls the recording operation of the specified recording device.