Patent 7426330 was granted and assigned to Sony on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is applied to a video data recording apparatus having an interface with a computer. The buffer size of a recording buffer 17A for temporarily storing data and recording the data on a recording medium 18 is switched between a mode for recording data through an interface 24 with a computer and a mode for recording steaming data D11 such as video data or the like.