Patent ID: 7936380
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus that captures images, comprising: a reproducing unit configured to reproduce, from a recording medium, a plurality of image data allocated to a group and management information of the group, the management information including identification information of the image data of the group and the identification information of the image data designated as a representative image of the group among the plurality of image data allocated to the group; an instructing unit configured to determine one of the plurality of image data allocated to one group and instruct to delete the determined image data; a deleting unit configured to delete the determined image data from the recording medium in accordance with an instruction of said instructing unit so that said one group no longer includes the determined image data; and a control unit configured to automatically change, in accordance with the determined image data being deleted by said deleting unit from said one group, the identification information of the image data designated as the representative image of said one group, to the identification information of one of the plurality of image data of said one group other than the determined image data if the determined image data is designated as the representative image of said one group.