Patent ID: 9451229
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A photographing apparatus, comprising: a photographing unit at least partially embodied by at least one hardware component and which is configured to photograph an object and output a moving picture and/or a still picture of the object; a recording unit at least partially embodied by at least one hardware component and which is configured to record: (1) the moving picture after encoding by an MPEG method, (2) a first thumbnail picture corresponding to the moving picture encoded by the MPEG method, after encoding by a JPEG method (3) the still picture after encoding by the JPEG method, and (4) a second thumbnail picture corresponding to the still picture encoded by the JPEG method, after encoding by the JPEG method; a thumbnail generating unit at least partially embodied by at least one hardware component and which is configured to: (1) generate the first thumbnail picture according to the JPEG method for the moving picture encoded by the MPEG method so that a size of the first thumbnail picture corresponding to the moving picture is adjusted so as to be close to a size of the second thumbnail picture to be generated based on the still picture encoded by the JPEG method and (2) store the first thumbnail picture and the second thumbnail picture in a same directory in which the moving picture and the still picture are not stored, wherein both the moving picture and the first thumbnail picture are generated based on picture information obtained by photographing of one moving picture, and both the still picture and the second thumbnail picture being generated based on picture information obtained by photographing of one still picture; a display unit at least partially embodied by at least one hardware component and which is configured to display a list including the first thumbnail picture and the second thumbnail picture which are read from the same directory, the first thumbnail picture and the second thumbnail picture to be displayed being selectable; and a reproducing unit at least partially embodied by at least one hardware component and which is configured to reproduce one of the moving picture and the still picture, the one of the moving picture and the still picture corresponding to one thumbnail picture selected from the list including the first thumbnail picture and the second thumbnail picture.