Patent ID: 8411735

Claim:
A data processing apparatus that processes image data of a moving image with a processor, the data processing apparatus comprising: acquiring means for acquiring variations representing degrees of change in pictures of the image data, the variations including fineness information representing a degree of spatial change in a picture of the pictures, motion information representing a degree of temporal change between sequential pictures of the pictures, or both the fineness information and the motion information, the fineness information indicating a degree of change in a pixel value among pixels forming the picture, and the motion information indicating a degree of change of content between the sequential pictures in a time direction; display-type determining means for determining, on the basis of the variations, display types respectively representing display methods for displaying the pictures, the display methods defining a display rate, a display resolution, or both a display rate and a display resolution for displaying the pictures; a file creating unit configured to create a file which associates the pictures with the display types determined by the display-type determining means, and to store the file in a memory; display-type acquiring means for acquiring, from the file created by the file creating unit, a display type for a picture designated by picture-designation operating means operated in designating a picture to be displayed; and display control means for displaying, on a display, the designated picture according to a display method corresponding to the display type acquired by the display-type acquiring means for the designated picture, such that the moving image is displayed on the display according to a display rate, a display resolution or both a display rate and a display resolution that change(s) as the moving image is displayed in accordance with display types acquired from the file for sequentially displayed pictures constituting the displayed moving image.