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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2003
Junichi Yokota, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsuo Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Yokota, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsuo Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus for mitigating the processing load of its CPU to increase the transfer rate at recording and enhance the usage efficiency of recording media. A host CPU determines whether an information signal supplied from the apparatus is a moving picture signal according to an instruction entered by user through a key operation block or according to the information included in the supplied information signal. If the supplied information signal is found to be moving picture information, the CPU detects free blocks each made up of a plurality of clusters by referencing the FAT information of a hard disk and records the moving picture information in unit of detected free blocks. If the supplied information signal is found not to be moving picture information, the CPU records the detected signal to free clusters on a cluster basis.