Thumbnails are used, facilitating any operation on an object that changes from time to time as in a moving picture, thereby to prevent failure in capturing important objects. The present invention provides an apparatus for processing images that includes a moving body detecting unit that detects an object from moving picture information input and checks the object for identity, thereby to determine whether the object is contained in two or more consecutive frames, a thumbnail displaying unit that displays any objects that have appeared within a prescribed period, as thumbnails extracted from a representative frame, on the basis of object information detected by the moving body detecting unit, an operation input unit that receives an operation input made when one of the thumbnails displayed by the thumbnail displaying unit is selected, and a moving picture displaying unit that displays a moving picture that contains the object identified by the selected thumbnail related to the operation input received by the operation input unit.