Patent ID: 8280929

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a processor; a managing unit that manages a moving image file recorded on a recording medium in accordance with a predetermined file system, each of a plurality of moving image file recorded on the recording medium having respective file name corresponding to the predetermined file system; a creating unit that creates, based on a first management file, a second management file different from the first management file, the first management file managing the moving image file recorded on the recording medium as a virtual moving image file and a virtual folder storing the virtual moving image file in accordance with a different format from a predetermined recording format in which a plurality of moving image files are managed by a single layer; both the first management file and the second management file being different from the moving image file recorded on the first recording medium, the first management file including information of virtual file names of a plurality of first virtual moving image file different from the file name corresponding to the predetermined file system, wherein the creating unit creates the second management file, based on the first management file, such that a first combined moving image file which is generated by combining the plurality of first virtual moving image files stored in a first virtual folder and has a plurality of first chapters corresponding to the plurality of first virtual moving image files and a second combined moving image file which is generated by combining a plurality of second virtual moving image files stored in a second virtual folder and has a plurality of second chapters corresponding to the plurality of second virtual moving image files are managed by a single layer; wherein the creating unit determines the virtual file names of the plurality of first virtual moving image files corresponding to the plurality of first chapters as chapter names of the plurality of first chapters, and determines the virtual file names of the plurality of second virtual moving image files corresponding to the plurality of second chapters as chapter names of the plurality of second chapters; wherein the second management file includes information of the chapter names of the plurality of first chapters and information of the chapter names of the plurality of second chapters; a display unit that displays a first screen showing a first virtual file names of the plurality of first virtual moving image files stored in the first virtual folder and a second virtual file names of the plurality of second virtual moving image files stored in the second virtual folder in accordance with the first management file, wherein the display unit displays a second screen showing the chapter names of the plurality of first chapters and a third screen showing the chapter names of the plurality of second chapters in accordance with the second management file.