Information processing device, method and program

• US 20020145633A1
• Filed: 04/24/2002
• Published: 10/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Ohmura, Akira
• Application Number:
  US10/128,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20020145633A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/838
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00278 with a printing apparatus, e.g. a laser beam printer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00437 Intelligent menus, e.g. anticipating user selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0045 vertically
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

An image is shot by an electronic camera using a convenient operation. Shot images are recorded into a directory corresponding to a user by shooting date and/or event. When a print-out mode is selected, a plurality of thumbnail images are displayed on the camera display, and when a single click is made by an undepicted pen on a specified thumbnail image, the display color of the thumbnail image is changed. Furthermore, when another click is subsequently made, the display color of all the thumbnail images included in the same event as that of the first designated thumbnail image is changed. Subsequently, when another click is made, the display color of all the thumbnail images of the same shooting date is changed, and when another click is subsequently made, the display color of all the thumbnail images included in the same directory is changed. Furthermore, on a specified display screen, when an execution key is pressed, the thumbnail images of which the display color is changed are printed.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

a memory in which is recorded image data and attribute information of the image data, the attribute information having a hierarchy with plural levels;

designation means for designating image data as selectable image data from among the image data recorded in the memory;

shifting means, responsive to the designation means, for shifting a hierarchy level of the selectable image data upward or downward; and

selection means for selecting image data from the image data recorded in the memory, the selected image data being the selectable image data included in the hierarchy level shifted to by the shifting means.

2. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising output means for outputting the selected image data to an external device.

3. The information processing device of claim 2, wherein the external device is a printer.

4. The information processing device of claim 3, wherein the output means outputs to the printer so that the selected image data is printed out on a specified number of recording sheets.

5. The information processing device of claim 2, wherein the output means outputs the selected image data in order to the external device according to a recording date of the image data.

6. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the hierarchy is formed based upon recording dates of the image data, the recording dates being at least part of the attribute information.

7. The information processing device of claim 6, wherein all image data recorded within a specified time interval is included in one hierarchy level.

8. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the hierarchy is formed based upon a predetermined condition.

9. The information processing device of claim 8, wherein at least one said predetermined condition is a user name, such that one level of the hierarchy is the user name.

10. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the information processing device is an electronic camera.

11. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the shifting means is responsive to successive actuation of the designation means.

12. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the image data designated by the designation means is at least one image.

16. The information processing device of claim 15, wherein the adding means does not add the additional information when the printing condition set by the setting means is to print a plurality of images on one recording sheet.

20. The information processing device of claim 19, further comprising stopping means for stopping the output of the at least one image data, displayed. on the display, to the first outputting means.

21. The information processing device of claim 19, wherein the external device is a printer.

22. The information processing device of claim 19, wherein the second output means outputs the at least one image data immediately after the image data that is output by the first output means.

13. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

recording image data and attribute information associated with the image data in memory, the attribute information having a hierarchy with plural levels;

designating image data, from among the image data recorded in the memory, as selectable image data;

shifting a hierarchy level of the selectable image data upward or downward; and

selecting the selectable image data included in the shifted-to hierarchy level.

14. A recording medium for use with an image processing device, the recording medium being encoded with a computer-readable control program that comprises:

a recording procedure that records image data and attribute information associated with the image data in memory, the attribute information having a hierarchy with plural levels;

a designation procedure that designates image data, from among the image data recorded in the memory, as selectable image data;

a shifting procedure that shifts a hierarchy level of the selectable image data upward or downward; and

a selection procedure that selects the selectable image data included in the shifted-to hierarchy level.

15. An information processing device, comprising:

a memory in which is recorded image data;

read-out means for reading out the image data from the memory;

setting means for setting a printing condition by which to print the image data on a recording sheet when the read-out image data is output to a printer by the read-out means;

output means for outputting the image data set by the setting means to the printer; and

adding means for adding additional information, indicating that the printing has been performed, to the image data for which the printing has been completed by the printer according to the printing condition set by the setting means.

17. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

recording image data in memory;

reading out selected image data recorded in the memory;

setting a printing condition for printing the selected image data on a recording sheet when the selected image data is read-out from the memory to a printer;

outputting the selected image data set at the setting step to the printer; and

adding additional information, indicating that printing has been performed, to the image data for which the printing has been completed by the printer according to the printing condition set by the setting step.

18. A recording medium for use with an image processing device, the recording medium being encoded with a computer-readable control program that comprises:

a recording procedure that records image data in memory;

a read-out procedure that reads out selected image data recorded in the memory;

a setting procedure that sets a printing condition for printing the selected image data on a recording sheet when the selected image data is read-out from the memory to a printer;

an output procedure that outputs the selected image data set by the setting procedure to the printer; and

an adding procedure that outputs additional information, indicating that printing has been performed, to the image data for which the printing has been completed by the printer according to the printing condition set by the setting procedure.

19. An image processing device, comprising:

a memory in which is recorded a plurality of image data;

read-out means for reading out selected image data recorded in the memory. a display;

first output means for outputting the image data read-out by the read-out means to an external device; and

second output means for outputting at least one image data, output after the image data output by the first output means, to the display.

23. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

recording a plurality of image data in memory;

reading out selected image data recorded in the memory;

first outputting the image data read out in the reading out step to an external device; and

second outputting at least one image data, output after the image data that is output in the first output step, to a display that is different from the external device.

24. A recording medium for use with an image processing device, the recording medium being encoded with a computer-readable control program that comprises:

a recording procedure that records a plurality of image data in memory;

a read-out procedure that reads out selected image data recorded in the memory;

a first output procedure that outputs the image data read-out by the read-out procedure to an external device; and

a second output procedure that outputs at least one image data, output after the image data that is output by the first output procedure, to a display that is different from the external device.

25. An information processing device, comprising:

a memory in which is recorded a plurality of image data;

output means for outputting a selected plurality of the image data recorded in the memory to a printer; and

selection means for selecting whether to print the selected plurality of image data output by the output means on one recording sheet or to print one image data per one recording sheet.

26. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

recording a plurality of image data in memory;

outputting a selected plurality of image data recorded in the memory to a printer; and

selecting whether to print the selected plurality of image data output by the outputting step per one recording sheet or to print one image data per one recording sheet.

27. A recording medium for use with an image processing device, the recording medium being encoded with a computer-readable control program that comprises:

a recording procedure that records a plurality of image data in memory;

an output procedure that outputs a selected plurality of image data recorded in the memory to a printer; and

a selecting procedure that selects whether to print the selected plurality of image data output by the output procedure on one recording sheet or to print one image data per one recording sheet.