Patent ID: 8599298
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A reproduction apparatus which reproduces a plurality of images, comprising: a process section for automatically dividing, at a time the images are being captured, a plurality of images with a time associated with each image into image groups based on photographed conditions, at least one of which photographed conditions relates to a preset length of time between photographed images, wherein each one of the image groups represents a respective event and the plurality of images are divided into the image groups by detecting, as event delimitations, all length of time differences between photographed times of chronologically adjacent images that are larger than a preset time; a display interface for simultaneously displaying (i) a plurality of reproduced images belonging to a first one of the image groups and (ii) a plurality of reproduced images belonging to a second one of the image groups; and an operation section for accepting an operation input from a user, wherein the display interface successively displays a representative image belonging to each respective image group along with a photographed time of the representative image, the representative image of each respective image group being successively displayed by jumping a focus directly between representative images of adjacent image groups, the representative image having been selected by the user for each image group from among images belonging to each respective image group for use as a representative image for that respective image group, and when any of the image groups contain at least two images, displaying at least a second image from the any of the image groups containing at least two images, the second image chronologically adjacent to the representative image, wherein the operation section is capable of performing a first feed operation of successively selecting representative images which belong to the plurality of image groups by jumping the focus directly between the representative images of adjacent image groups and a second feed operation of successively selecting a plurality of images which belong to each of the plurality of image groups, the first and second feed operations both capable of being performed directly from the display interface, and wherein when the operation section performs the first feed operation, the display interface performs an animated transition between a screen displaying one or more of the plurality of reproduced images belonging to the first one of the image groups and a screen displaying one or more of the plurality of reproduced images belonging to the second one of the image groups.