Patent ID: 8792772

Claim:
A display device including a playback control device comprising: a list generation unit references respective still pictures and moving pictures stored in a folder, designated by a user, as contents to be displayed in a slide show manner and generates a display list in which display items, as information, indicating the contents are arranged in a prescribed order; a selection unit selects (a) a moving picture of a moving picture file having at least one of (1) a file name satisfying prescribed standards for an imaging apparatus and (2) a prescribed file format, and (b) a still picture among still pictures and moving pictures stored in a recording unit which also stores moving pictures which do not satisfy the prescribed standards and prescribed file format; and a hardware implemented playback control unit controls playback of the selected still pictures and controls playback of the moving pictures so that still pictures and the moving pictures, selected by the selection unit, are played back sequentially in the prescribed order in the slide show manner, the playback control unit controls playback of the moving picture during playback so that playback of a still picture or a moving picture, which is previous or next to the moving picture during playback in the prescribed order is started when a given operation was performed by the user to an input means.