Apparatus, method, or storage medium for image processing

• US 20060078230A1
• Filed: 11/28/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kimura, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,606,446 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/309
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2129 Recording in, or reproducing from, a specific memory area or areas, or recording or reproducing at a specific moment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2158 using a detachable storage unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/218 Deletion of stored data; Preventing such deletion

Abstract

The present invention provides an image printing apparatus in which the consistency between image files and a print information file can be held and also the efficiency of user operation can be enhanced. When an instruction to delete the relevant one of image files which are already stored in a taken image storage part in a memory card has been inputted by a file designation part, it is discriminated by a file coincidence judgement part whether or not the relevant one of the image files is present in the taken image storage part. If it is discriminated that the relevant one of the image files is present in the taken image storage part, then it is further discriminated whether or not the specified image file is already registered in print information of a print information storage part.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus for reading out image file output condition information of image files from an output information file which is recorded on a recording medium together with the image files, to output an image file, said apparatus comprising:

input means for inputting an instruction to edit one of the image files recorded on the recording medium;

discrimination means for determining whether the image file output condition information of the image file for which the instruction to edit has been input is present in the output information file;

reporting means for reporting that image file output condition information of the image file is present in the output information file, in accordance with a result of discrimination by said discrimination means; and

editing means for, in a case that the instruction to edit an image file is input, editing the image file and the image file output condition information of the image file.

2. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

display means for effecting display indicating that the image file output condition information of the image file is present in the output information file when the image file for which the instruction to edit has been input corresponds to an image file for which the output has been instructed within the image file output condition information; and

confirmation means for, after the effect that the image file for which the output has been instructed becomes an object to be output in the image file output condition information is displayed on said display means, confirming whether editing of the image file for which the output has been instructed is to be carried out.

3. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the editing of the image file is the processing of deleting the image file of interest.

4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image file output condition information is print information.

5. An image processing method of reading out image file output condition information of image files from an output information file which is recorded on a recording medium together with the image files, to output an image file, said method comprising the steps of:

inputting an instruction to edit one of the image files;

determining whether the image file output condition information of the image file for which an instruction to edit has been input is present in the output information file;

reporting that the image file output condition information of the image file is present in the output information file, in accordance with a result of discrimination in said discriminating step; and

editing, in a case that the instruction to edit an image file is input, the image file and the image file output condition information of the image file.

6. An image processing method according to claim 5, further comprising the steps of:

effecting display indicating that the image file output condition information of the image file is present in the output information file when it is determined that the image file for which the instruction to edit has been input corresponds to the image file for which the output has been instructed in the image file output condition information; and

confirming whether or not editing of the image file for which the output has been instructed is to be carried out, after the effect that the image file for which the output has been instructed becomes an object to be output in the image file output condition information is displayed.

7. An image processing method according to claim 5, wherein the editing of the image file is the processing of deleting the image file of interest.

8. An image processing method according to claim 5, wherein the image file output condition information is print information.

9. A storage medium from which information can be read out by a computer and in which a program is stored for reading out image file output condition information of image files from an output information file is recorded on a recording medium together with the image files, to output an image file, said program comprising the steps of:

inputting an instruction to edit one of the image files;

determining whether the image file output condition information of the image file for which an instruction to edit has been input is present in the output information file;

reporting that the image file output condition information of the image file is present in the output information file, in accordance with a result of discrimination in said determining step; and

editing, in case that the instruction to edit an image file is input, the image file and the image file output condition information of the image file.