Patent ID: 7983528

Claim:
A moving image management hardware device for recording and managing plural pieces of meta-data for a part or all of a moving-image for multiple moving-images recorded on a recording medium, comprising: a unit configured to record invalidity information indicating which one of “valid”, “invalid” and “partly valid” states will exist, with regard to each of the plural pieces of meta-data, when a part or all of a moving-image that is an object of the plural pieces of meta-data is edited; a unit configured to record validity information indicating one of “valid”, “invalid” and “partly valid” states as current validity of a piece of meta-data in the same storing form as that of the invalidity information, with regard to each of the plural pieces of meta-data; and a unit configured to attempt to recalculate the piece of meta-data in order to keep the piece of meta-data valid as much as possible, with regard to each of the plural pieces of meta-data, when a part or all of a moving-image that is an object of a piece of meta-data is edited, and to copy the invalidity information to a storage area for validity information of the piece of meta-data if the piece of meta-data cannot be recalculated.