Patent ID: 7809728

Claim:
A camera comprising: a recording medium compartment for receiving a removable recording medium; an image sensing unit configured to sense an image to obtain image data of the image; a recording and playback unit configured to record an image file including the image data obtained by the image sensing unit in the recording medium in accordance with a recording instruction, and to read out the image file from the recording medium; a management file processing unit configured to generate a content management file for playing back a plurality of image files recorded in the recording medium in accordance with the recording instruction, wherein the content management file includes a plurality of information blocks, each information block respectively corresponding to one of the plurality of image files recorded in the recording medium, and each information block including a respective block number corresponding to the corresponding one of the plurality of image files and the respective name of the corresponding one of the plurality of image files; a playlist generation unit configured to generate a playlist file indicating a playback sequence of a designated plurality of image files recorded in the recording medium in accordance with a playlist generating instruction, wherein the management file processing unit adds a new information block for the playlist file to the content management file, in accordance with the playlist generating instruction; and a detection unit constructed to detect a name of each of the plurality of image files designated by the playlist file in accordance with the information block corresponding to the playlist file included in the content management file, without interpreting the playlist file, wherein the recording and playback unit records the playlist file in the recording medium where the image files are stored, and wherein the newly added information block for the playlist file includes a block number of the information block corresponding to the playlist file and respective block numbers of the information blocks corresponding to the plurality of image files designated by the playlist file.