Patent ID: 8566706

Claim:
A display apparatus for displaying accumulated data items on a display unit, the display apparatus comprising: a processor for controlling a search-result-obtaining section for obtaining a plurality of data items that are accumulated, the data items including information items concerning persons that are identified as objects by face-image identification; a search-result-analyzer section for digitizing the plurality of data items to generate a two-or-more-dimensional distribution and converting the two-or-more-dimensional distribution into a one-dimensional distribution; a classification-data-generating section for classifying the plurality of data items that are obtained by the search-result-obtaining section into N groups on the basis of the one-dimensional distribution and predetermined criteria; a display-data-generating section for controlling an indication on the display unit such that the plurality of data items that are classified by the classification-data-generating section are displayed in N display regions corresponding to the N groups; and an operation-input-accepting section for accepting a specification of one display region from among the N display regions, wherein, when the operation-input-accepting section accepts a specification of one display region from among the N display regions, the classification-data-generating section classifies a plurality of data items displayed in the specified display region into a further N groups, and the display-data-generating section controls an indication on the display unit such that the plurality of data items that are further classified by the classification-data-generating section are newly displayed in the N display regions corresponding to the N groups, wherein each of the N display regions is scrollable, and wherein specification of one display region from among the N display regions is generated when (i) a frame is displayed about the one display region, at a time when all N display regions are displayed, such that the frame does not change the appearance of the one display region and (ii) a predetermined operation is performed while the frame is displayed about the one display region, and wherein when one of the N scrollable display regions is specified, the plurality of items displayed in the specified display region are displayed among a new set of N scrollable display regions.