Patent ID: 7774704

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a playback unit configured to play back image data and a plurality of pieces of playlists from a recording medium, each of the plurality of pieces of playlists representing a playback order of the image data; a changing unit configured to change the playback order of the plurality of pieces of playlists; and a playlist processing unit configured to generate a combined playlist representing the playback order of the plurality of image data each designated in the plurality of pieces of playlists in accordance with the playback order of the plurality of pieces of playlists changed by the changing unit, wherein the combined playlist represents the playback order of the plurality of image data so as to play back the plurality of image data each designated in the plurality of pieces of playlists in accordance with the playback order of the plurality of pieces of playlists changed by the changing unit, wherein the combined playlist represents the playback order of the plurality of image data so as to play back the plurality of image data each designated in the plurality of pieces of playlists in the orders each designated in the plurality of pieces of playlists; and wherein the playlist processing unit determines the playback order of the plurality of image data represented by the combined playlists such that duplicate image data from among the plurality of image data each designated in the plurality of pieces of playlists is inhibited from being played back in a duplicate fashion.