Patent ID: 8094974

Claim:
A picture data managing apparatus which manages picture data using a landmark, said picture data managing apparatus comprising: a landmark candidate selecting unit operable to select candidates for landmarks added to the picture data; a parameter obtaining unit operable to obtain, for each of the selected landmark candidates, a parameter indicating a degree of relevance between the selected landmark candidate and the picture data; a weight value adding unit operable to add, based on the obtained parameter, a predetermined weight value to the selected candidate of the landmark; and a landmark identifying unit operable to identify the landmark to be added to the picture data, based on a degree of the added weight value; wherein the parameter is a landmark distance which indicates a distance between a shooting location of a picture corresponding to the picture data and one of the selected candidates of the landmarks; wherein said weight value adding unit is operable to add a greater weight value to one or more of the selected candidates of the landmarks having a shorter landmark distance; wherein said parameter obtaining unit is further operable to obtain a distance to a subject as a parameter; and wherein said weight value adding unit is operable to increase a weight value of each of one or more of the selected candidates of the landmarks having a longer landmark distance as the landmarks have a longer distance to the subject.