US Patent 7508437 Information processing apparatus and method, program recording medium, program, and picture taking apparatus

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an obtaining unit for obtaining picture taking date and time information of data recorded on a recording medium; a range setting unit for setting a data range in which display object data as objects for list display is obtained from within the data on a basis of the picture taking date and time information obtained by the obtaining unit; a picture taking interval calculating unit for obtaining a picture taking interval of each piece of data in the data range set by the range setting unit; a display object setting unit for setting, as the display object data, pieces of data that have longest picture taking intervals obtained by the picture taking interval calculating unit among pieces of data in the data range set by the range setting unit and are not more than a number of images simultaneously displayable on the list display; and a data generating unit for generating list display data including images of the display object data set by the display object setting unit.