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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2009
Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Michinori Nakajima, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Michinori Nakajima, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When data of large capacity compared with the capacity of a recording medium used for storing a backup is divided into sections of data and backed up on recording media, a unit configured to divide data and generate sections of the data in order to record the data on recording media, the sections having an order, and a unit configured to generate representative images for each of the recording media, on which the sections of the data are recorded, are provided. Representative images assigned to a certain recording medium include a representative image generated using one of the sections of the data to be recorded on the certain recording medium and a representative image generated using at least one of a previous section and a next section of the data regarding the section of the data, whereby the relationship between the recording media can be easily recognized.