Patent ID: 8094202

Claim:
A moving image capture apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to capture visual information to output an image signal; a file generation unit configured to generate a data file to record the image signal output from the imaging unit on a recording medium; a character recognition unit configured to extract character information from the image signal; a parameter value setting unit configured to set a parameter value related to a time axis according to a characteristic of appearance of the character information extracted by the character recognition unit within a file; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate an evaluation value for each of the character information from the parameter value set by the parameter value setting unit; a thumbnail button configured to set the parameter value different from the parameter value related to the time axis used for calculating the evaluation value in accordance with a user pressing operation while the character information during image capturing appears; and a thumbnail generation unit configured to generate a thumbnail of the file based on an image signal from which character information for which the calculated evaluation value is greatest has been extracted.