Information processing apparatus

• US 20080077639A1
• Filed: 08/30/2007
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Yoshiyuki, Zenke, Koichi
• Application Number:
  US11/897,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20080077639A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/188 Virtual file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor

Abstract

The invention provides an information processing apparatus that includes: a file management information acquisition unit that acquires file management information, which is information for managing content files, the file management information having the managed content files registered therein and having an album defined therein, the content files being registered as one group in the album for management thereof; a content file identification unit that identifies the content files registered in the file management information on the basis of the acquired file management information; a first unregistered extraction unit that extracts a content file that is not registered in any of the albums as unregistered content file on the basis of the acquired file management information; and a first virtual album registration unit that creates a first virtual album and registers the unregistered content file that is extracted by the first unregistered extraction unit into the created first virtual album.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a file management information acquisition section that acquires file management information, which is information for managing content files, the file management information having the managed content files registered therein and having an album defined therein, the content files being registered as one group in the album for management thereof;

a content file identification section that identifies the content files registered in the file management information on the basis of the acquired file management information;

a first unregistered extraction section that extracts a content file that is not registered in any of the albums as unregistered content file on the basis of the acquired file management information; and

a first virtual album registration section that creates a first virtual album and registers the unregistered content file that is extracted by the first unregistered extraction section into the created first virtual album.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first album selection window display section that displays a first album selection window that shows the album defined in the file management information and further shows the first virtual album that is created by the first virtual album registration section as choices.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a first list display section that displays the unregistered content files that are registered in the first virtual album by the first virtual album registration section as a list when a user selects the first virtual album on the first album selection window displayed by the first album selection window display section.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second unregistered extraction section that extracts a content file as unregistered content file if, in the file management information, the album is defined by linking to another album in the album selected by the user, and further if a registered content file is also present in the album selected by the user; and

a second virtual album registration section that creates a second virtual album and registers the unregistered content file that is extracted by the second unregistered extraction section into the created second virtual album.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a second album selection window display section that displays a second album selection window that shows the album defined by linking to another album in the album selected by the user, and further shows the second virtual album that is created by the second virtual album registration section as choices.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a second list display section that displays the unregistered content files that are registered in the second virtual album by the second virtual album registration section as a list when the user selects the second virtual album on the second album selection window displayed by the second album selection window display section.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the file management information is described in an MPV (Music Photo/Video) format.

8. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a file management information acquisition section that acquires file management information, which is information for managing content files, the file management information having the managed content files registered therein and having an album defined therein, the content files being registered as one group in the album for management thereof;

an unregistered extraction section that extracts a content file as unregistered content file if, in the file management information, the album is defined by linking to another album in the album selected by a user, and further if a registered content file is also present in the album selected by the user; and

a virtual album registration section that creates a virtual album and registers the unregistered content file that is extracted by the unregistered extraction section into the created virtual album.