IMAGE GROUPING DEVICE AND CAMERA

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for properly grouping a plurality of images. SOLUTION: An image grouping device 1 is comprised of: a characteristic amount calculation means 11 for calculating the characteristic amounts of a plurality of images included in every image group having a plurality of images; a title determination means 11 for determining a title representing the image group in accordance with the characteristic amount of each image for every image group; a calculation means 11 for calculating time difference information between the image groups based on the photographic date information of each image held by the plurality of images groups; and an integration means 11 for integrating the image groups into one image group when the titles determined by the title determination means 11 are the same, and time difference information calculated by the calculation means 11 is a prescribed value or less. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT