REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reproduction apparatus and method, capable of efficiently searching for an image by shortening a search time. SOLUTION: A target image selector 347 selects an image of interest in accordance with a user's operation. A search condition setting unit 349 sets a search condition based upon image attribute information of the image of interest. When the search condition setting unit 349 sets search conditions, a reproduction information generating/updating unit 351 generates temporary tables 29 for reproduction by the search conditions by acquiring image attribute information of images satisfying the set search conditions from an image attribute information table 26. A search condition selector 353 selects a reproduction search condition in accordance with a user's operation to select the reproduction search condition or to cancel selection. An image display data generator 355, an OSD data generator 357, and a superimposition display processor 359 reproduce a reproduction result associated with the image of interest by referring to a temporary table 29 for reproduction corresponding to the reproduction search condition. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT