Patent ID: 7952638

Claim:
An information processing apparatus that acquires, from a photographing apparatus that photographs a subject and records image data obtained as a result of the photographing on a storage medium, state information indicating a present state of the photographing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a state acquiring unit configured to acquire real-time state information from the photographing apparatus on a real time basis, wherein the real-time state information includes information indicating a present operation state of the photographing apparatus and at least one setting value used by the photographing apparatus to record the image data; a data acquiring unit configured to acquire image data previously recorded on the storage medium in the photographing apparatus, non-real-time state information including information indicating an operation state of the photographing apparatus at a time of recording the stored image data and at least one setting value used by the photographing apparatus to record the stored image data, and grouping metadata associated with a plurality of data segments included in the image data previously recorded on the storage medium; a recording control unit configured to cause an accumulating unit configured to accumulate the image data, the corresponding non-real-time state information, and the grouping metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit to record the image data, the corresponding non-real-time state information, and the grouping metadata; and a display unit configured to display the real-time state information acquired by the state acquiring unit on a real time basis.