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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To arise reminiscent feelings and to motivate a user to use images by presenting the user with chance encounters with the images when the user is to search for the images by displaying thumbnail images. SOLUTION: There are provided a thumbnail area 102 and sub-thumbnail areas 103a and 103b. Thumbnail images of images belonging to a group distant by a prescribed time period from the group displayed in the index area 102 are randomly extracted and displayed in the sub-thumbnail areas 103a and 103b. For example, when arranged by year of image capture, images of one year before and one year after the images displayed in the thumbnail area 102 are extracted at random and displayed in the sub-thumbnail areas 103a and 103b, respectively. In addition to images resulting from a search specified by the user, by also displaying on the same screen images not anticipated by the user, the user is presented with chance encounters with images. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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