Patent ID: 8346771

Claim:
An image management apparatus which manages a plurality of image files by classifying the image files into a plurality of folders, the image management apparatus comprising: at least one processor coupled via a bus to a memory, the processor being programmed to control: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire shooting times of the image files belonging to the folders; a display unit configured to display a first list of thumbnail images indicating the image files belonging to the folders and a first range of the shooting times of the image files, on an area of a screen for each of the folders; a setting unit configured to set a condition for searching the image files in response to a user operation; a search unit configured to search the image files which satisfy the set search condition; a reading unit configured to read the shooting times of the searched image files for each folder; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a second range of shooting times of the searched image files among the image files belonging to the folders, for each folder based on the read shooting times of the searched image files; and an update unit configured to update the first list to a second list of thumbnail images to indicate the searched image files among the image files belonging to the folders and the first range of the shooting times in the second range of shooting times acquired by said second acquisition unit, on the area of the screen for each of the folders, wherein said display unit displays the second list and the second range of the shooting times on the area of the screen for each of the folders after the setting unit sets the condition.