US 7,580,763 B2
Recording apparatus for recording signal including a plurality of sound information
Hiroshi Ochi, Daito (Japan)
Assigned to Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Daito-shi, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 20, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/254,284.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-311330 (JP), filed on Oct. 26, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0088300 A1, Apr. 27, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 700—94 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording apparatus for recording a signal input from the outside, comprising:
a signal processing portion for processing a video signal and a sound signal included in said signal; and
a control portion for controlling said signal processing portion; wherein
said control portion sets a received sound to an initial value, sets the current received sound to a first variable if recording is not performed by said recording apparatus, compares said first variable with a second variable received at one time period before said first variable, adds a chapter mark in said sound signal's region corresponding to an elapsed time from a start of recording according to a plurality of sound information included in said sound signal if said first variable is not equal to said second variable, sets said first variable to said second variable if said chapter mark is added or said first variable is equal to said second variable, and edits said sound signal and said video signal corresponding to the sound signal based on said chapter mark.