TIME STAMP VALUE CONTROLLER

There is provided a timestamp value controlling apparatus that can improve storage efficiency of data as maintaining quality of data. In the apparatus, a timestamp value difference calculating section 103 obtains a timestamp value difference indicating a difference between an input timestamp value and a previous timestamp value timestamp value. A judging section 104 judges whether the timestamp value difference is within a reference timestamp value range in which a predetermined permissible range is added to the reference frame interval value. The outputting and selecting section 105 outputs a value, which is obtained by adding the reference frame interval value to the previous timestamp value, as an output timestamp value when the timestamp value difference is within a reference timestamp value range, and outputs the input timestamp value as an output timestamp value when the timestamp value difference is out of the reference timestamp value range.