Information processing system, apparatus and method, storage medium storing a program, which implements the method, in form readable by the information processing apparatus, and the program

• US 20050002590A1
• Filed: 05/03/2004
• Published: 01/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kawamura, Kohei
• Granted Patent: US 7,765,466 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/325
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32 Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device H04N1/38, H04N1/387 take precedence

Abstract

An information processing method for providing a communication terminal with a service. When editing in a lump of a plurality of held data to which the services are to be applied is received an instruction from the communication terminal, data capable of undergoing the accepted editing is automatically selected from the held data and the selected data is edited. With regard to data automatically judged to be incapable of undergoing the accepted editing, information that reports exclusion of this data from editing is transmitted to the communication terminal and is displayed thereby. That is, when plural items of held data are edited simultaneously, data not suited to this editing is excluded automatically, thereby enhancing user convenience in terms of operation. In addition, the fact that data not suited to editing has not been edited is clearly indicated to the user to prevent miss-recognition by the user.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus for accepting commands of processing applied to data, comprising:

holding unit adapted to hold a table in which the data and formats of the data are correlated;

receiving unit adapted to receive, from another information processing apparatus via a network, a command to execute the processing in a lump with regard to a plurality of items of the data having different data formats; and

processing executing unit adapted to refer to the held table and execute the processing with regard to data of a prescribed format among the plurality of items of data being a target of the processing.

2. An information processing method for accepting commands of processing applied to data, comprising the steps of:

holding a table in which the data and formats of the data are correlated;

receiving, from another information processing apparatus via a network, a command to execute the processing in a lump with regard to a plurality of items of the data having different data formats; and

referring to the held table and executing the processing with regard to data of a prescribed format among the plurality of items of data being a target of the processing.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising a step of exercising control in such a manner that the other information processing apparatus is notified via the network of the result of processing the data.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising a step of exercising control in such a manner that if the processing was not executed with respect to the data, the other information processing apparatus is so notified.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the formats of the data include moving-image data and still-image data formats.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein the processing includes processing for performing editing so as to rotate the data and cause it to be displayed on a monitor of the other information processing apparatus, or at least one of processing for enlarging/reducing size of the data, processing for adjusting image quality of the data, processing for synthesizing the data, processing for halting voice playback of the data and processing for performing editing so as to play back the data in reverse.

7. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the steps of executing the processing of a thumbnail data corresponding to data of a prescribed format;

and

controlling a result of the processing of the thumbnail data to be displayed on the another information processing apparatus.

8. A program executed by an information processing apparatus for accepting commands of processing applied to data, comprising:

a step of holding a table in which the data and formats of the data are correlated;

a step of receiving, from another information processing apparatus via a network, a command to execute the processing in a lump with regard to a plurality of items of the data having different data formats; and

a step of referring to the held table and executing the processing with regard to data of a prescribed format among the plurality of items of data being a target of the processing.

9. The program according to claim 8, further comprising a step of exercising control in such a manner that the other information processing apparatus is notified via the network of the result of processing the data.

10. The program according to claim 8, further comprising a step of exercising control in such a manner that if the processing was not executed with respect to the data, the other information processing apparatus is so notified.

11. A storage medium on which is stored, in a form readable by computer, a program for implementing an information processing method for accepting commands of processing applied to data, said program comprising:

a step of holding a table in which the data and formats of the data are correlated;

a step of receiving, from another information processing apparatus via a network, a command to execute the processing in a lump with regard to a plurality of items of the data having different data formats; and

a step of referring to the held table and executing the processing with regard to data of a prescribed format among the plurality of items of data being a target of the processing.

12. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein said program further comprises a step of exercising control in such a manner that the other information processing apparatus is notified via the network of the result of processing the data.

13. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein said program further comprises a step of exercising control in such a manner that if the processing was not executed with respect to the data, the other information processing apparatus is so notified.

14. An information processing system comprising a first information processing apparatus for accepting commands of processing applied to data, and a second information processing apparatus for commanding execution of the processing,

wherein said first information processing apparatus includes:

holding unit adapted to hold a table in which the data and formats of the data are correlated;

receiving unit adapted to receive, from said second information processing apparatus via a network, a command to execute the processing in a lump with regard to a plurality of items of the data having different data formats;

processing executing unit adapted to refer to the held table and execute the processing with regard to data of a prescribed format among the plurality of items of data being a target of the processing; and

control unit adapted to exercise control in such a manner that page information relating to result of processing of the data is transmitted to said second information processing apparatus via the network; and

said second information processing apparatus has display unit adapted to analyze the page information transmitted and display the result of processing the data on a monitor.