Patent ID: 7962005

Claim:
An image information processing apparatus which edits video information for sequentially playing back images of a plurality of image files for a predetermined time as a slide show, records the video information in a directory area for recording video information of a recording medium in a predetermined format, and records each image file storing image information about each image to be played back in the slide show in a directory area for recording an image file of the recording medium, comprising: a video information edition device which limits a number of images to be sequentially played back in a slide show having one title to a range not exceeding a highest number of chapters of one title prescribed by the predetermined format, edits video information of a slide show of title(s) of one or more title numbers, and sets a chapter at a playback starting position of each image to be sequentially played back in a slide show; a video information record device which records video information edited by the video information edition device in the directory area for recording video information of the recording medium; and an image file record device which generates a folder having a folder name corresponding to each title number of a slide show edited by the video information edition device in the directory area for recording an image file of the recording medium, records each image file storing image information about each image to be played back in a slide show of each title number in a folder having a folder name containing a title number of a slide show in which an image of each image file is played back, and records each image file using a file name containing a chapter number of a chapter set at a playback point of an image of each image file by the video information edition device, wherein video can be played back by title.