Patent ID: 8634698

Claim:
A playback apparatus loaded with a data recording medium including image data, the playback apparatus comprising: first determining means for determining whether a user carried out an operation for stop playing back the image data when the image data is being played back; storage control means for controlling a storage process so that a first set of information indicating a position where the playback of the image data was stopped is stored when the first determining means determines that the user carried out an operation for stop playing back the image data; and display control means for controlling the display of a screen so that a screen displaying a list of predetermined thumbnail images, the predetermined thumbnail images corresponding to respective chapters, each of the chapters corresponding to a plurality of image data for playback in a predetermined order, with an icon superposed only on one of the predetermined thumbnail images, the one predetermined thumbnail image corresponding to one chapter among the chapters for which the plurality of image data thereof is stopped from being played back, is returned to from a playback screen and displayed on the basis of the first set of information when the first determining means determines that the user carried out an operation for stop playing back the plurality of image data of the one chapter when the playback screen displaying playing back of the plurality of image data of the one chapter is displayed, the icon indicating that playback of the plurality of image data of the one chapter is resumed from a position in the predetermined order corresponding to image data of the plurality of image data of the one chapter where the playback of the plurality of image data of the one chapter was stopped, wherein the predetermined thumbnail image corresponding to the one chapter is displayed on the screen displaying the list of predetermined thumbnails with the icon superposed thereon when any image data of the plurality of image data of the one chapter is stopped from being played back based on the operation carried out by the user.