Patent ID: 7391956

Claim:
A moving picture playback apparatus, comprising: a priority set unit for setting a priority for a frame of a moving picture composed of a plurality of continuous frames; a priority obtainment unit for obtaining the priority set for the frame of the moving picture by the priority set unit; a playback speed set unit for setting a moving picture playback speed at which the moving picture is played back; a frame selection unit for selecting a frame of the moving picture based on the playback speed set by the playback speed set unit and the priority set for the frame of the moving picture obtained by the priority obtainment unit; a frame obtainment unit for obtaining an image of the frame selected by the frame selection unit; and a moving picture display unit for displaying the image of the frame obtained by the frame obtainment unit; and wherein the frame selected by the frame selection unit is registered in a frame list at a predetermined location so that frames, even with low priority that are close to the currently displayed frame and frames with only high priority that are far from the currently displayed frame are stored as typical images.