Patent ID: 8538238

Claim:
A playback apparatus having a CPU, comprising: a playback unit that plays back moving image data of a plurality of clips from a recording medium; a memory; a generation unit that, for each clip, generates representative image data indicating a representative image of the clip based on the moving image data played back by the playback unit, and stores the generated representative image data in the memory; an output unit that generates an index screen using representative image data stored in the memory, and outputs the index screen to a display device; and a control unit that determines, based on a time necessary for the generation unit to generate each representative image data, a clip for which representative image data is to be stored in the memory, and controls the generation unit such that representative image data of the determined clip is generated and the generated representative image data is stored in the memory, wherein a part of the playback unit, a part of the generation unit, a part of the output unit and a part of the control unit are implemented by the CPU.