Patent ID: 7617107

Claim:
An information processing device capable of processing audio data linked with still image data, the apparatus comprising: display means for displaying, in a single window on a display screen: (i) a playback-time information display area to display, as a time line, playback-time positions of items of still image data linked with selected audio data, (ii) a first image display area for displaying all of the items of still image data linked with the selected audio data in a playback order of the items of still image data, and (iii) a second image display area for displaying still image data which is not linked with any audio data; insertion means for selecting a desired item of still image data from among the still image data displayed in the second image display area, and inserting the selected item of still image data in one of the first image display area and the playback-time information display area; and link means for linking the selected item of still image data to a first playback-time position of the selected audio data when the selected item of still image data is inserted in the first image display area, and for linking the selected item of still image data to a second playback-time position of the selected audio data when the selected item of still image data is inserted in the playback-time information display area, wherein the first playback-time position is calculated from a position at which the selected item of still image data is inserted among the items of still image data in the first image display area, and the second playback-time position is specified with a pointer on the time line in the playback-time information display area when the selected item of still image data is inserted in the playback-time information display area.