Patent ID: 8482811

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing unit configured to reproduce image data from a random-access recording medium on which the image data of a plurality of scenes are recorded, the reproducing unit stopping reproducing the image data from the random-access recording medium in accordance with a reproduction stop instruction provided by an instruction unit, each of the plurality of scenes comprising a plurality of frames; an output unit configured to output an index screen including index images of the image data of the plurality of scenes recorded on the random-access recording medium to a display device; a detecting unit configured to detect a scene which is reproduced by the reproducing unit at a time of the reproduction stop instruction provided by the instruction unit from among the plurality of scenes of the image data recorded on the random-access recording medium, in accordance with an instruction for displaying the index screen, wherein the output unit selects, based on a detection result by the detection unit, the scene detected by the detecting unit without a selection operation by a user responsive to the instruction for displaying the index screen and outputs an index screen including an index image of the detected scene to the display device, where the index image of the detected scene included in the index screen is selected in the index screen; and a control unit configured to control the reproducing unit so as to reproduce the image data corresponding to a selected index image in the index screen displayed on the display device in accordance with a reproduction instruction.