Patent ID: 7835550

Claim:
An apparatus for recording an image of interest, said apparatus comprising: an image-of-interest detecting device for detecting a prescribed image of interest from an original image represented by applied original image data; an image-of-interest extracting device for extracting the image of interest detected by said image-of-interest detecting device; a recording control device for recording image-of-interest data, which represents the image of interest extracted by said image-of-interest extracting device, on a first recording medium in association with the original image data, wherein the original image data is recorded in an original image data recording area of an original image file in which a thumbnail image data recording area and the original image data recording area have been defined; and a thumbnail image-of-interest data generating device for generating thumbnail image-of-interest data representing a thumbnail image of the image of interest extracted by said image-of-interest extracting device, wherein said recording control device records the thumbnail image-of-interest data, which has been generated by said thumbnail image-of-interest data generating device, in the thumbnail image data recording area.