INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR USE THEREIN, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20080187248A1
• Filed: 02/01/2008
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Karasawa, Hidenori, Kubota, Yoshiyasu, Imamura, Makoto, IKEDA, Takuo, Kitao, Takashi, Sato, Shogo
• Granted Patent: US 8,762,882 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/305
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in the image storing means onto the image display area in a predetermined sequence; and controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in the image display area has been accepted by the operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of the image to management information stored in the management information storing means in correspondence with the image.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

operation accepting means for accept an operation input;

image storing means for storing a plurality of images;

management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to said plurality of images stored in said image storing means;

image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in said image storing means onto said image display area in a predetermined sequence; and

controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in said image display area has been accepted by said operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of said image to management information stored in said management information storing means in correspondence with said image.

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

reduced image storing means for storing reduced images corresponding to said plurality of images stored in said image storing means,

wherein, in a display area including at least said image display area and said a storage area divided into a plurality of areas, said image drawing means draws a reduced image corresponding to an image stored in said image storing means onto said storage area and,

if an operation input commanding selection of an image included in said image display area in correspondence with any of said storage areas has been accepted by said operation accepting means, said controlling means records the area selected in correspondence with said image to management information stored in said management information storing means in correspondence with said image and controls said image drawing means to draw the reduced image stored in said reduced image storing means in correspondence with said image onto the image selected in correspondence with said image.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, if an operation input commanding selection of an image included in said image display area in correspondence with any of said storage areas has been accepted by said operation accepting means, said controlling means controls said image drawing means to draw a marker indicative of an area selected in correspondence with said image in the proximity of said image included in said image display area.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, if at least two operation inputs commanding selection of one image included in said image display area have been accepted by said operation accepting means, said controlling means records the number of operation inputs commanding said selection to management information stored in said management information storing means in correspondence with said image and controls said image drawing means to draw, onto said image display area, at least one image of images stored in said image storing means in a sequence in accordance with the number of accepted operation inputs commanding said selection recorded to said management information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, if a predetermined operation input has been accepted by said operation accepting means, said controlling means controls said image drawing means to draw so as to execute at least one of enlargement and reduction of at least one of said storage areas.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said image drawing means draws each of said storage areas as a rectangular area adjacent to said image display area and,

if an operation input commanding movement of an end portion adjacent to said image display area in each of said storage areas toward said image display area has been accepted by said operation accepting means, said controlling means controls said image drawing means to draw so as to move said end portion in accordance with said operation input to enlarge each of said storage areas.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, if at least two reduced images are drawn in any of said storage areas, the said controlling means controls said image drawing means to draw such that reduced images are overlapped each other with at least a part displayed in said storage area.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said image drawing means draws, in said display area, a cursor that moves in accordance with an operation input accepted by said operation accepting means and,

if said cursor is superimposed on any of a plurality of reduced images drawn as superimposed on each other in any of said storage areas, said controlling means controls said image drawing means to draw such that each reduced image superimposed on said reduced image is moved to display said reduced image in the entirety thereof.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, if a predetermined operation input has been accepted by said operation accepting means, said controlling means controls said image drawing means to draw such that a reduced image included in said storage area corresponds to at least one of images included in said image display area.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

reduced image generating means for generating reduced images corresponding to a plurality of images stored in said image storing means,

wherein said reduced image storing means stores the reduced images generated by said reduced image generating means.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image drawing means draws, onto said display area, a cursor that moves in accordance with an operation input accepted by said operation accepting means and,

if a predetermined drag operation has been accepted by said operation accepting means with said cursor drawn as superimposed on a predetermined area included in said display area, said controlling means controls said image drawing means to draw an image associated with said predetermined area in accordance with said drag operation.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said controlling means controls, in accordance with an operation input accepted by said operation accepting means, said image drawing means to draw an image included in said image display area such that said image moves.

13. An information processing apparatus comprising:

operation accepting means for accepting an operation input;

image storing means for storing a plurality of images;

reduced image storing means for storing reduced image corresponding to a plurality of images stored in said image storing means;

management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to said plurality of images stored in said image storing means;

image drawing means for drawing, in a display area at least including an image display area, a list image display area, and a storage area, at least one of images stored in said image storing means onto said image display area in a predetermined sequence and at least two of the reduced images stored in said reduced image storing means onto said list image display area as list images in said predetermined sequence; and

controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in said image display area in correspondence with said storage area has been accepted by said operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of said image to management information stored in said management information storing means in correspondence with said image and controlling said image drawing means to draw a reduced image stored in said reduced image storing means in correspondence with said image onto said storage area.

14. A control method for an information processing apparatus having an image storing means for storing a plurality of images and a management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to said plurality of images stored in said image storing means, comprising the steps of:

accepting an operation input;

drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of said plurality of images stored in said image storing means onto said image display area in a predetermined sequence; and

controlling, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in said image display area has been accepted in said accepting step, recording of selection of said image to management information stored in said management information storing means in correspondence with said image.

15. A program configured to make a computer execute, in an information processing apparatus having an image storing means for storing a plurality of images and a management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to said plurality of images stored in said image storing means, the steps of:

accepting an operation input;

drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of said plurality of images stored in said image storing means onto said image display area in a predetermined sequence; and

controlling, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in said image display area has been accepted in said accepting step, recording of selection of said image to management information stored in said management information storing means in correspondence with said image.

16. An information processing apparatus comprising:

operator accepting means for accepting an operation input;

image storing means for storing a plurality of images;

reduced image storing means for storing reduced images corresponding to a plurality of said image storage;

image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least a list image display area and an image display area, at least two of the reduced images stored in said reduced image storing means onto said list image display area as list images in a predetermined sequence and at least one of the images stored in said image storing means onto said image display area in said predetermined sequence; and

controlling means for, when a predetermined operation input has been accepted by said operation accepting means, controlling said image drawing means to draw such that at least one of list images included in said list image display area and at least one of the images included in said image display area correspond with each other.

17. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an operation acceptor configured to accept an operation input;

an image storage configured to store a plurality of images;

a management information storage configured to store management information corresponding to said plurality of images stored in said image storage;

an image drawer configured to draw, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in said image storage onto said image display area in a predetermined sequence; and

a controller configured to, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in said image display area has been accepted by said operation acceptor, control recording of the selection of said image to management information stored in said management information storage in correspondence with said image.

18. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an operation acceptor configured to accept an operation input;

an image storage configured to store a plurality of images;

a reduced image storage configured to store reduced image corresponding to a plurality of images stored in said image storage;

a management information storage configured to store management information corresponding to said plurality of images stored in said image storage;

an image drawer configured to draw, in a display area at least including an image display area, a list image display area, and a storage area, at least one of images stored in said image storage onto said image display area in a predetermined sequence and at least two of the reduced images stored in said reduced image storage onto said list image display area as list images in said predetermined sequence; and

a controller configured to, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in said image display area in correspondence with said storage area has been accepted by said operation acceptor, control recording of the selection of said image to management information stored in said management information storage in correspondence with said image and control said image drawer to draw a reduced image stored in said reduced image storage in correspondence with said image onto said storage area.

19. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an operation acceptor configured to accept an operation input;

an image storage configured to store a plurality of images;

a reduced image storage configured to store reduced images corresponding to a plurality of said image storage;

an image drawer configured to draw, in a display area including at least a list image display area and an image display area, at least two of the reduced images stored in said reduced image storage onto said list image display area as list images in a predetermined sequence and at least one of the images stored in said image storage onto said image display area in said predetermined sequence; and

a controller configured to, when a predetermined operation input has been accepted by said operation acceptor, control said image drawer to draw such that at least one of list images included in said list image display area and at least one of the images included in said image display area correspond with each other.