Patent ID: 7123264

Claim:
A moving image management apparatus for management of plural moving images recorded on a storage medium in correspondence with one or plural representative images, comprising: a unit configured to record a representative image representing an arbitrary section or the whole of a moving image; a unit configured to record information indicating the section or the whole of the moving image represented by the representative image in correspondence with the representative image; a unit configured to record information indicating a position of an image as a base of the representative image in correspondence with the representative image; a unit configured to record information indicating a purpose of use of the representative image as attribute information in correspondence with the representative image, the purpose of use indicating a function selected from functions applicable to the moving image; and a unit configured to select only the representative image corresponding to the purpose of use based on the attribute information, wherein in the case the representative image is designated by a user, it is interpreted that the section or the whole of the moving image represented by the representative image is selected.