Patent ID: 8503735

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a depth-of-relationship value calculation unit that regards a person, who appears in any of a plurality of contents, as a specific person, and calculates a depth-of-relationship value, which indicates the degree of depth of the relationship between the specific person and a second person, on the basis of an appearance frequency of the second person or a third person other than the second person in contents in which the specific person appears, and on the basis of the appearance frequencies of the second person and the third person in contents in which the specific person does not appear, wherein the depth-of-relationship value calculation unit calculates scores to be given to pairs of persons, who appear in the plurality of contents, on the basis of the appearance frequencies of the pairs of persons, who appear together in the same contents, among the persons appearing in the plurality of contents, the depth-of-relationship value calculation calculating the depth-of-relationship value on the basis of: the score given to the pair of the specific person and the second person, the score given to the pair of the specific person and the third person, and the score given to the pair of the second person and the third person; and a priority determination unit that determines a priority, which is assigned to the second person relating to the specific person among the persons appearing in the plurality of contents, on the basis of the calculated depth-of-relationship value.