Patent ID: 8452161

Claim:
A recording and reproducing apparatus which records and reproduces data with respect to at least one recording media, comprising: a display unit adapted to simultaneously display data recorded on the recording medium on a first display area of a display screen; a selection unit adapted to select specific data from the data displayed on the first display area; and a direction designation unit adapted to designate a direction to the selected data, wherein the display unit is adapted to display at least one second display area to which the selected data on the first display area is enabled to be shifted, wherein the second display area locates in a predetermined direction with regard to a position of the selected data which is on the first display area, a shift unit adapted to shift the selected data on the first display area to the second display area, if the direction designation unit designates the predetermined direction to the selected data, and a deleting unit adapted to delete the selected data on the first display area, if the direction designation unit designates the other direction different from the predetermined direction to the selected data.