Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasushi Kasai

Hirofumi Honda

Shuichiro Matsushima

According to an embodiment, there is provided an information recording apparatus, such as a digital camera, arranged to record information on a detachably mountable storage medium, such as for example to record video data on the storage medium. In one version of the apparatus, when a connection of an AC adapter is cancelled, the storage medium is detected by a storage medium detection unit, and in a case where the storage medium is not mounted to the mounting unit, a warning is issued, for example in an audio output unit or a display unit. Accordingly, the user can find out that the storage medium is not mounted before the digital camera has been brought outside for use. Thus, it may be possible to prevent a failure in which the user first realizes that they forgot to mount the storage medium only when they are already away from home.

Information recording apparatus, and control method therefor

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an information recording apparatus, such as a digital camera, arranged to record information on a detachably mountable storage medium, such as for example to record video data on the storage medium. In one version of the apparatus, when a connection of an AC adapter is cancelled, the storage medium is detected by a storage medium detection unit, and in a case where the storage medium is not mounted to the mounting unit, a warning is issued, for example in an audio output unit or a display unit. Accordingly, the user can find out that the storage medium is not mounted before the digital camera has been brought outside for use. Thus, it may be possible to prevent a failure in which the user first realizes that they forgot to mount the storage medium only when they are already away from home.

An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing unit for obtaining still-image data, a recording unit for recording, in a recording medium, the still-image data obtained by the image-capturing unit, and a play-list generating unit which, in a continuous shooting mode for obtaining a series of still images and recording a series of still-image-data items representing the still images recorded in the recording medium, generates a play list specifying a process for playing back the series of still-image-data items.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasushi Kasai