摘要 |
Disclosed are a portable recording/reproducing apparatus for recording predefined information onto a recording medium and reproducing the recorded information, and a method for controlling the apparatus. The apparatus includes a recording section to collect an external sound and output audio information in accordance with the sound collection results; a shooting section to shoot the outside and output motion picture information in accordance with shooting results; a display section to display a motion picture in accordance with the motion picture information; a retention section to retain the shooting section as desired in a ready-for-shooting state or in a storage state in which shooting cannot be performed; a detection section to detect whether or not the shooting section is retained in the ready-for-shooting state by the retention section; and a control section, which, when the detection section detects at the beginning of audio information recording that the shooting section is retained in the ready-for-shooting state, exercises control so that the motion picture based on the motion picture information appears on the display section. The apparatus can record a still picture based on a motion picture while recording audio information.
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