Patent ID: 7982792

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a reproduction unit which reproduces from a recording medium a motion picture signal that is obtained and recorded on the recording medium by an image pickup device, and operating information including a photographing operation parameter including a driving direction of a focus lens of the image pickup device, wherein the operating information is different from the motion picture signal and is recorded on the recording medium in addition to the motion picture signal by the image pickup device; an operation unit that provides a reproduction instruction for reproducing the motion picture signal from the recording medium, wherein the reproduction unit reproduces the motion picture signal and the operating information from the recording medium responsive to the reproduction instruction provided by the operation unit; a display unit which, responsive to the reproduction instruction provided by the operation unit, generates a plurality of thumbnail images by reducing, respectively, a plurality of pictures included in the motion picture signal reproduced from the recording medium by said reproduction unit, and displays the plurality of generated thumbnail images of the plurality of pictures on a same screen of a display device; a detection unit which, responsive to the reproduction instruction provided by the operation unit, detects an in-focus degree of a motion picture corresponding to each of the plurality of thumbnail images displayed on the display device, on the basis of the operating information reproduced from the recording medium by said reproduction unit; a control unit which controls said display unit to display each of the plurality of thumbnail images on the same screen in such a manner that additional information indicating the in-focus degree is displayed on the same screen together with the corresponding thumbnail image, in accordance with a detection result by said detection unit; and a selection unit which selects one of the plurality of thumbnail images displayed on the display device.