Patent Document ID: 20080256450
Application ID: 12060656
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An information presenting apparatus adapted to present, to a user, information associated with each of one or more motion images stored in a storage apparatus by displaying the information at a location corresponding to a file production time on a background image in the form of a calendar view, comprising: frame extraction means for extracting a plurality of frames serving as representative images from a motion image in accordance with a specified frame extraction method; motion image thumbnail image management means for producing thumbnail images of the respective extracted representative images, relating each thumbnail image to a playback position in the motion image, and managing the thumbnail images as a set of motion image thumbnail images in accordance with a production time of the motion image; and image drawing means for drawing information associated with each motion image stored in the storage apparatus, at a location corresponding to the production time of the motion image, on the background image in the form of the calendar with a calendar continuing across boundaries of years, months, and days, wherein when the image drawing means presents the information associated with each motion image stored in the storage apparatus on the background image in the form of the calendar view, the image drawing means draws thumbnail images belonging to the set of motion image thumbnail images associated with each motion image in an expanded form in which the thumbnail images are located in the order of time.