Patent ID: 8532439

Claim:
A reproduction apparatus for respectively reproducing plural images, comprising: an attribute information recording unit that records image attribute information in which an attribute value representing an image attribute is set for each image; a target image selector that selects an image of interest from among plural images; a search condition setting unit that sets, as a search condition including a person search condition and a location search condition, an attribute value related to the image of interest set in the image attribute information responsive to the image of interest being selected by the target image selector; a reproduction information generator that generates reproduction information, responsive to the search condition being set by the search condition setting unit, by setting one of pieces of image attribute information that satisfies the search condition and by referencing an image attribute information table to generate (1) a person search result table in which image attribute information satisfying the person search condition is set, and (2) a location search result table in which image attribute information satisfying the location search condition is set; a search condition selector that selects the search condition as a reproduction search condition; a search result reproducing unit that reproduces a search result with respect to the image of interest by displaying, on a display unit, an image whose image attribute information is designated with the reproduction information as a reproduction object, when the reproduction search condition is selected by the search condition selector; an image obtaining unit that obtains an image; and an image attribute information adding unit, wherein when the image is obtained by the image obtaining unit, the image attribute information adding unit generates image attribute information in which an attribute value related to the image is set, and additionally records to the image attribute information to the attribute information recording unit, wherein when the image attribute information newly generated by the image attribute information adding unit satisfies the search condition, the reproduction information generator updates the reproduction information by adding the image attribute information.