CONTENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, OPERATION APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF

摘要

A content management apparatus, which includes a recording unit for recording a content, and an operation unit for accepting a user operation required to append additional information to the content, executes at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already recorded contents and a second process for recording additional information in association with a content to be recorded, and a third process for recording additional information in association with a currently recording content in response to respective execution instructions. Enabling and disabling user operations required to issue execution instructions of the first to the third processes are switched based on whether or not a content recording operation of the recording unit is in progress.

主权项

1. A content management apparatus including a recording unit configured to record a content, and an operation unit configured to accept a user operation required to append additional information to the content, said apparatus comprising:
an execution unit configured to execute a first process for recording additional information in association with latest content data recorded in a recording medium in the recording unit in response to a predetermined user operation; and a control unit configured to enable, when the latest content data is determined to have been recorded in the recording medium by an immediately preceding recording operation of the recording unit, the predetermined user operation required to issue an execution instruction of the first process, and to disable, when the latest content data is not determined to have been recorded in the recording medium by the immediately preceding recording operation of the recording unit, the predetermined user operation required to issue the execution instruction of the first process.