Patent ID: 6950535

Claim:
An image retrieving device comprising: an image reading unit which reads a sequence of image data recorded with image pickup times; an image data holding, unit which holds the sequence of image data that has been read by the image reading unit; an attribute information reading unit which reads attribute information containing at least image pickup positions where the sequence of image pickup data has been obtained and the image pickup times thereof; a matching unit which matches the sequence of image data held in the image data holding unit with the attribute information read by the attribute information reading unit based upon the image pickup times; an image database which holds the matching relationship that has been determined by the matching unit; a map data holding unit which holds map data; a map display processing unit which displays the map data on a map display unit based upon the map data; an image retrieving unit which retrieves the image database; a locus display processing unit which allows the image retrieving unit to retrieve for image data having image pickup positions within a map displayed by the map display unit, and displays the retrieved pickup positions on the map as a locus; an image display unit which displays the sequence of image data; a position specifying unit which specifies a position of the map displayed on the map display unit; and an image processing unit which acquires image data corresponding to the image pickup position in the vicinity of the position specified by the position specifying unit from the image data holding unit, and reproduces and displays the resulting image data on the image display unit.