Patent ID: 6965701

Claim:
An apparatus for managing one or plural representative images in correspondence with a moving image, comprising: a unit configured to store a representative image, generated based on a frame image selected from the moving image, in correspondence with the moving image; a unit configured to store section information indicating a section in the moving image and attribute information indicating a selection base of the frame image, in correspondence with the representative image; a unit configured to store position information indicating a position of the frame image in correspondence with the representative image; a first designation unit configured to designate a desired section in a moving image; and a generation unit configured to generate a representative image corresponding to the section based on a frame image selected in accordance with the selection base from a moving image in the section designated by said first designation unit, generate section information indicating the section in the moving image, generate position information indicating the position of the selected frame image in the moving image, and generate attribute information indicating the designated selection base.