Camera, reproducing apparatus, and album registration method

• US 20060023261A1
• Filed: 07/28/2005
• Published: 02/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Kaminaga, Tomomi
• Granted Patent: US 7,755,674 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/302
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/60 Solid state media
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• 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 1/00453 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 1/00466 displaying finishing information, e.g. position of punch holes or staple or orientation references
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera

Abstract

A reproducing apparatus of the present invention includes an image display device with a touch panel, picked-up images as candidates to be registered are displayed in the upper portion of a display unit of the image display device so that they are freely scrolled, and albums as registration-destined candidates are displayed in the lower portion of the display unit so that they are freely scrolled. When the touch panel is manipulated so as to draw a line segment whose locus shifts from a picked-up image shown in the upper portion to an album shown in the lower portion, the reproducing apparatus registers the picked-up image with the upper portion in the album in the lower portion.

Claims

1. A camera comprising:

an image pick-up unit;

a setting unit that previously sets, as one of image pick-up conditions, an album for keeping images; and

an album management unit that manages the album keeping a group consisting of a combination of arbitrary images arbitrarily selected from images having been picked up by the image pick-up unit and having been stored in a memory unit.

2. A reproducing apparatus comprising:

a display unit having a display region that is allowed to be divided into at least a first display region and a second display region;

an album management unit that manages an album keeping a group consisting of a combination of arbitrary images arbitrarily selected from images having been stored in a memory unit; and

an album registration unit, which registers the arbitrary images with the album managed by the album management unit;

comprising;

a first display control unit which causes the respective images stored to the memory unit to be displayed in the first display region of the display unit as alternatives, and switches the images to be displayed in response to an instruction so that they are scrolled in the first display region;

a second display control unit which causes the respective icon images, which show the album managed by the album management unit, to be displayed in the second display region of the display unit as alternatives, and switches the icon images to be displayed in response to an instruction so that they are scrolled in the second display region; and

an input unit which inputs an instruction for instructing to register the image being displayed in the first display region to the album shown by the icon image being displayed in the second display region.

3. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a touch panel disposed on the display unit,

wherein an input unit of the album registration unit determines that the registration instruction is input when a slide motion is executed on the touch panel so as to draw a line segment whose locus shifts from the image being displayed in the first display region to the icon image being displayed in the second display region.

4. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first display control unit of the album registration unit has a selection unit which selects any of all the images or any of the images registered in a designated album as a subject to be displayed in the first display region as an alternative.

5. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second display control unit of the album registration unit includes the typical image of each album in each icon image showing the album.

6. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second display control unit of the album registration unit includes an illustration in each icon image of each album, the illustration showing the number of images registered with each album by the thickness of piled photographs.

7. A camera comprising:

an image pick-up means;

a setting means that previously sets, as one of image pick-up conditions, an album for keeping images; and

an album management means that manages the album keeping a group consisting of a combination of arbitrary images arbitrarily selected from images having been picked up by the image pick-up means and having been stored in a memory means.

8. A reproducing apparatus comprising:

a display means having a display region that is allowed to be divided into at least a first display region and a second display region;

an album management means that manages an album keeping a group consisting of a combination of arbitrary images arbitrarily selected from images having been stored in a memory means; and

an album registration means, which registers the arbitrary images with the album managed by the album management means, comprising;

first display control means for causing the respective images stored to the memory means to be displayed in a first display region of the display means as alternatives, and switching the images to be displayed in response to an instruction so that they are scrolled in the first display region;

second display control means for causing the respective icon images showing the album managed by the album management means to be displayed in a second display region of the display means as alternatives, and switching the icon images to be displayed in response to an instruction so that they are scrolled in the second display region; and

input means for inputting an instruction for instructing to register the image being displayed in the first display region to the album shown by the icon image being displayed in the second display region.

9. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a touch panel disposed on the display means,

wherein input means of the album registration means determines that the registration instruction is input when a slide motion is executed on the touch panel so as to draw a line segment whose locus shifts from the image being displayed in the first display region to the icon image being displayed in the second display region.

10. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the first display control means of the album registration means has selection means for selecting any of all the images or any of the images registered in a designated album as a subject to be displayed in the first display region as an alternative.

11. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the second display control means of the album registration means includes the typical image of each album in each icon image showing the album.

12. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the second display control means of the album registration means includes an illustration in each icon image showing each album, the illustration showing the number of images registered with each album by the thickness of piled photographs.

13. An album registration method of a camera comprising an images pick-up unit, a setting unit that previously sets, as one of image pick-up conditions, an album for keeping images;

and an album management unit that manages the album keeping a group consisting of a combination of arbitrary images arbitrarily selected from images having been picked up by the image pick-up unit and having been stored in a memory unit, the method comprising;

previously setting an album, with which the image picked up by the image pick-up unit is registered, as one of image pick-up conditions; and

registering the image picked up by the image pick-up unit with the set album.

14. An album registration method of a reproducing apparatus comprising a display unit having a display region that is allowed to be divided into at least a first display region and a second display region, an album management unit that manages an album keeping a group consisting of a combination of arbitrary images arbitrarily selected from images having been stored in a memory unit, and an album registration unit, which registers the arbitrary images with the album managed by the album management unit, the method comprising:

displaying the respective images stored to the memory unit in the first display region of the display unit as alternatives, and switching the images to be displayed in response to an instruction so that they are scrolled in the first display region;

displaying the respective icon images, which show the album managed by the album management unit, in the second display region of the display unit as alternatives, and switching the icon images to be displayed in response to an instruction so that they are scrolled in the second display region; and

registering the image being displayed in the first display region with the album shown by the icon image being displayed in the second display region.

15. A recording medium that is read by a computer and has a program stored therein, the program executing an album registration method of a reproducing apparatus comprising a display unit, an album management unit that manages an album keeping a group consisting of a combination of arbitrary images arbitrarily selected from images having been stored in a memory unit, wherein the method comprising:

displaying the respective images stored to the memory unit to a first display region of the display unit as alternatives, and switching images to be displayed in response to an instruction so that they are scrolled in the first display region;

causing the respective icon images, which show the album managed by the album management unit, to be displayed in a second display region of the display unit as alternatives, and switching icon images to be displayed in response to an instruction so that they are scrolled in the second display region; and

registering the image being displayed in the first display region to the album shown by the icon image being displayed in the second display region in response to an instruction.