Patent ID: 8773565

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing unit adapted to reproduce a plurality of segments of moving image data showing a series of moving images from a recording medium; a displaying unit adapted to display on a display screen a plurality of representative images respectively corresponding to the plurality of segments of moving image data, each of the representative images corresponding to a different one of the segments of moving image data and each having a corresponding display region on the display screen; a selector adapted to select one of the plurality of representative images, wherein said displaying unit displays an indicator by superimposing it on the selected representative image, the indicator indicating a reproduction start position in a segment of moving image data corresponding to a selected representative image; an instruction unit adapted to instruct movement of the indicator so as to arbitrarily designate the reproduction start position of the segment of moving image data corresponding to the selected representative image; and a reproduction controller adapted to determine a reproduction start position in the segment of moving image data corresponding to the selected representative image on the basis of the display position of the indicator within the display region corresponding to the selected representative image, and the total reproduction time of the segment of moving image data corresponding to the selected representative image, and to control said reproducing unit to reproduce the segment of moving image data corresponding to the selected representative image from the reproduction start position.