Patent Document ID: 9420130
Application ID: 14222687
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image storage unit that stores a plurality of images having supplementary information respectively; an image analysis unit that performs an image analysis of each image stored in the image storage unit; and a time correction unit that corrects an imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of the image in such a manner that the plurality of images are arranged in an actual imaging time of the images in a case where the plurality of images are arranged in an order of the imaging time among the supplementary information, the time correction unit correcting the imaging time based on both i) a result of the image analysis by the image analysis unit and ii) a GPS information that is included in the supplementary information of the images, wherein the image analysis is a similar image determination processing that determines when two or more images are similar, wherein, in a case where the plurality of images are arranged in the order of the imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of the images, the time correction unit corrects the imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of one or more images among the two or more images that are determined to be similar images, in such a manner that the two or more images that are determined to be similar images, by the result of the similar image determination processing, are continuously arranged based on the corrected imaging time, and wherein the time correction unit corrects the imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of other images imaged by the same type of the imaging apparatus as that of one or more images of which the imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of the image is corrected among the plurality of images, or the imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of other images imaged at a predetermined geographic range of imaging location that is the same as that of one or more images of which the imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of the image is corrected, based on the type of the imaging device that is included in the supplementary information of the image and the GPS information that is included in the supplementary information of the image, by the same amount of correction as the amount of correction of one or more images of which the imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of the image is corrected.