Patent ID: 7616235
Filing Date: 2009-11-10
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information management apparatus defining a replay sequence of new image data added to a group of images to which a plurality of image data belong, comprising: a storage unit for storing group information relating to a group to which a plurality of image data belongs in advance and replay sequence information indicating a replay sequence at the time of replaying a plurality of image data belonging to the aforementioned group; a designation unit for designating a group for new image data which does not belong to the group; and an information renewal unit renewing the group information and the replay sequence information about all image data belonging to the designated group when the designation unit designates a group to which a plurality of image data already belong as the group for new image data, and a notification unit for notifying a renewed group when at least either said group information or said replay sequence information is renewed by a change or addition to the group, wherein the information renewal unit rewrites the replay sequence information so as to replay the new image data first out of the designated group when the designation unit designates a group to which a plurality of image data already belong as a group for the new image data belonging to, and said notification unit includes an index display part for displaying image data extracted singularly from said each group by an index screen display as representative images of respective groups so as to show an icon superimposed on the representative image of said renewed group for meaning a predetermined operation having been done thereto in the index screen display.