Patent ID: 8166420
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. An electronic apparatus, comprising: a storage device to store (i) a plurality of face images extracted from video content data, a plurality of thumbnail images each corresponding to a plurality of frames selected from a different section of the video content data, and (ii) time stamp information indicating a time point at which each of the face images appears in the video content data; a face image list display module configured to display face images in a plurality of face image display areas forming a two-dimensional display area arranged in a matrix including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each column belonging to a different time zone and face images assigned to each column are arranged in an order of appearance frequency based on the time stamp information; a thumbnail image display module configured to display the plurality of thumbnail images side-by-side in chronological order of appearance in a thumbnail display area arranged at one side of a lower side or an upper side in the two dimensional display area, the thumbnail image display module displaying a first thumbnail image of the plurality of thumbnail images with a normal size and displaying a remainder of the plurality of thumbnail images with a reduced width in comparison with a width of the first thumbnail image; and a link display control module configured to cause the thumbnail image display module to perform display control of the plurality of thumbnail images such that the first thumbnail image corresponding to a section to which a selected face image belongs is displayed with the normal size based on the time stamp information, when the face image in the two dimensional display area displayed by the face image list display module is selected.