Video recording apparatus and external terminal

Abstract

A video recording apparatus capable of recording video data and additional information related to a predetermined position of the video data includes a first recording medium for storing the video data, a second recording medium for storing the additional information, a communication unit operable to communicate with an external terminal, a recording position storage unit operable to record latest information representing a recording position of video data currently being recorded, a recording state management unit operable to send the information representing the recording position to the external terminal via the communication unit, when receiving a predetermined signal from the external terminal via the communication unit, an additional information management unit operable to receive the additional information and information representing the recording position of the video data to which the additional information is to be added from the external terminal via the communication unit, and a recording medium control unit operable to relate the received additional information to the video data based on the received information representing the recording position so as to record the video data to the second recording medium.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.