Patent ID: 8279320

Claim:
A data-display control method for image data in an imaging apparatus, the method comprising: reading photographed data attribute information stored in a storing unit and acquiring photographing time information and positional information corresponding to image data included in the photographed data attribute information corresponding to images of plural different photographed image data files; acquiring map information of a position corresponding to the positional information from a map database based on the acquired positional information corresponding to the image data; and generating display information in which thumbnails corresponding to the images of the plural different photographed image data files are set on a map connected with one another to indicate a movement course of a user based on the photographing time information corresponding to the images of the image data files, wherein the movement course includes positions indicated by the photographing time information and the positional information corresponding to the images, respectively, of the image data files, the map being acquired from the map database based on the acquired positional information corresponding to the image data, wherein the movement course can be displayed in a first movement course mode and a second movement course mode, wherein in the first movement course mode a plurality of image data classified in one group are displayed to show one movement course and wherein in the second movement course a plurality of image data classified in different groups are displayed together to show one collective movement course, and outputting the display information to a display unit.