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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2008
Applicant:
Masanao Tsutsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Masanao Tsutsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/765 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image playback apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image content including still images and movies and photographing information involved in photographing a subject to create the image content, an image classifying unit configured to classify the image content into a plurality of image groups on the basis of the photographing information, and an image playback unit configured to organize all still images belonging to one of the image groups into a still-image slideshow and successively playing back one or a plurality of movies belonging to the one image group and the still-image slideshow.