Patent ID: 8204312

Claim:
A moving image editing apparatus comprising: a display unit capable of displaying a moving image; a face detection unit for detecting a face of a person from an image of a frame in the moving image, an extraction target determination unit configured to allow a user to specify the frame in the moving image displayed on the display unit, to automatically identify one of a plurality of persons in the specified frame as an extraction target based on an instruction of the user, and to automatically identify a related person to add to the extraction target based on predetermined correlation information linking the related person to the identified one of the plurality of persons; a scene locating unit for locating a scene in which the extraction target comprising the one of the plurality of persons and the related person appears in a moving image and for tracking the extraction target to determine a starting point and an ending point of the scene; and a partial moving image extraction unit for extracting a partial moving image comprising the scene from the moving image.