Patent ID: 8194120
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus that records a plurality of captured images and an album information file for designating a display order making a display apparatus display at least one the captured image in a recording medium as files different from each other, the image capturing apparatus comprising: an operation acquiring section that acquires an operation before or after a user of the image capturing apparatus takes, by a camera, the captured images; an operation recording section that records operation information showing the operation in the album information file in order to display the captured image with a level of importance according to the operation before or after capturing the captured image, in association with the captured image to be displayed on the display apparatus; an image-in-operation acquiring section that continuously acquires a plurality of image-in-operations while the user operates the image capturing apparatus before or after capturing the captured image; and an image comparing section that compares image contents of the plurality of image-in-operations acquired by said image-in-operation acquiring section to compute a degree of coincidence between the plurality of image-in-operations, and said operation recording section records operation information showing the operation in the album information file while an image-in-operation in which the degree of coincidence computed from said image comparing section is not less than a predetermined reference value is taken, wherein said operation recording section records, in the album information file, information for the operation from a predetermined time prior to a captured time instant of the captured image to the captured time instant or the operation from the captured time instant to a predetermined time posterior to the captured time instant, and wherein said degree of coincidence is determined by a moving direction and a movement width of said image before or after the user takes the captured images.