Patent ID: 8478004

Claim:
A method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus that performs a moving picture photographing mode and a reproduction mode, the method comprising: during an operation of capturing and storing images of a series of unit frames in a moving picture file in the moving picture photographing mode: capturing images of the series of unit frames; detecting a representative set of face frames in the series of unit frames where each of the detected face frames of the representative set of face frames includes one or more faces of different persons than are included in at least one of the other unit frames of the representative set of face frames in the operation of capturing and storing images of a series of unit frames in the moving picture file in the moving picture photographing mode; and storing the images of the series of unit frames in the moving picture file; the method further comprising: storing representative image frames including face frames selected from the detected representative set of face frames in the moving picture photographing mode; and displaying images of the stored representative image frames to indicate the moving picture file in the reproduction mode.