Patent ID: 7499918

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for processing content data obtained from a plurality of capturing means by capturing an object, the information processing apparatus including a server, comprising: storing means for storing simultaneously with capturing, additional information in association with the content data, the additional information including address information for linking the content data obtained from grouped ones of the plurality of capturing means the additional information includes time information and position information about capturing performed by the grouped capturing means, the time information of the grouped capturing means matching each other; obtaining means for obtaining and organizing the additional information stored by the storing means; searching means for, when content data corresponding to specified capturing means in the plurality of capturing means is read from the storing means, automatically searching for the content data and the additional information to be linked to the read content data, and identifying means for identifying a relative positional relationship or a relative time relationship between the capturing means corresponding to the content data based on the additional information obtained by the obtaining means.