Patent ID: 7714924

Claim:
A picture display controlling apparatus comprising: data holding means for holding a plurality of picture data items; picture group obtaining means for obtaining picture groups by sorting said picture data items according to the location information of which the picture data was acquired; resume pointer holding means for holding as a picture resume pointer the location of the picture data item most recently displayed from any of said picture groups obtained by sorting said picture data items; operation inputting means for accepting an operation input for designating any of said picture groups or any of the picture data items in the designated picture group; and display controlling means for exercising control such as to display the designated picture group or the designated picture data item in said designated picture group and each picture group is displayed using at least the location information used in sorting said picture items, wherein, if said operation input accepted by said operation inputting means designates transition from a first picture group to a second picture group, then said display controlling means causes said resume pointer holding means to hold the location of the picture data item most recently displayed from said first picture group as the picture resume pointer for said first picture group, while retrieving the picture resume pointer for said second picture group from said resume pointer holding means in order to display anew the picture data item pointed to by the retrieved picture resume pointer.