Patent ID: 8072487

Claim:
A picture processing apparatus comprising: a picture input unit which inputs pictures including a multi-view picture taken from two or more viewpoints and a single-view picture taken from a single viewpoint; a storage unit which stores a picture inputted to the picture input unit in a picture file; a minified picture creation unit which creates a first minified picture produced by minifying a picture stored in the storage unit; a picture identification unit which identifies whether a picture stored in the storage unit is a multi-view picture or a single-view picture; a distance identification unit which identifies whether a subject in a picture identified by the picture identification unit to be a multi-view picture is at long range or short range based on distance information in the picture file in which the multi-view picture is stored; a picture processing unit which creates a second minified picture by performing virtual 3-dimensional computer graphic processing on the first minified picture created from a picture which is identified by the picture identification unit to be a multi-view picture and for which the distance identification unit identifies that the subject is at short range; and a display unit which, in response to a direction to display a list of pictures stored in the storage unit, displays the first minified picture created by the minified picture creation unit in the list as a representative picture of pictures identified by the picture identification unit to be single-view pictures, displays the first minified picture created by the minified picture creation unit in the list as a representative picture of pictures which are identified by the picture identification unit to be multi-view pictures and for which the distance identification unit identifies that the subject is at long range, and displays the second minified picture created by the picture processing unit in the list as a representative picture of pictures which are identified by the picture identification unit to be multi-view pictures and for which the distance identification unit identifies that the subject is at short range.