Patent ID: 8386934

Claim:
An information presenting apparatus adapted to present, to a user, information associated with each motion image stored in a storage apparatus, comprising: frame selection method specifying means for identifying highlighrs scenes based on evaluating audio data associated with a motion image to obtain scenes including a specified person; frame extraction means for extracting a plurality of representative images from the motion image in accordance with the identified highlight scenes; motion image thumbnail image management means for producing thumbnail images of each of the extracted representative images, relating each thumbnail images to a playback position in the motion image, and managing the thumbnail images as a set of motion image thumbnail images in accordance with a capturing time at which the motion image was captured; and image drawing means for drawing information associated with each motion image stored in the storage apparatus, at a location corresponding to the capturing time of the motion image, on a calendar, wherein when the image drawing means presents the information associated with each motion image stored in the storage apparatus on the calendar, the image drawing means draws at least one thumbnail image in the set of motion image thumbnail images, for each motion image, in an expanded form in which the at least one thumbnail image is arranged in time order, and wherein the audio data associated with the motion image is evaluated to obtain highlight scenes including a frame at which a zoom operation occurs.