INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20100094857A1
• Filed: 10/13/2009
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tomita, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US12/578,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20100094857A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for easily finding target data even when a plurality of data having similar data information satisfy a search condition. An information processing apparatus includes a matched data information acquisition unit configured to search for data stored in a storage device based on a search condition to acquire information about matched data which satisfies the search condition, an associated data information acquisition unit configured to acquire information about associated data which is associated with the matched data, and a display unit configured to display a screen which includes the information about the matched data acquired by the matched data information acquisition unit and the information about the associated data acquired by the associated data information acquisition unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a matched data information acquisition unit configured to search for data stored in a storage device based on a search condition to acquire information about matched data which satisfies the search condition;

an associated data information acquisition unit configured to acquire information about associated data which is associated with the matched data; and

a display unit configured to display a screen which includes the information about the matched data acquired by the matched data information acquisition unit, and the information about the associated data acquired by the associated data information acquisition unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the associated data information acquisition unit acquires information about the associated data by recognizing data stored in the same folder in which the matched data is stored as the associated data.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the associated data information acquisition unit acquires an icon and a data name of the associated data as the information about the associated data.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the associated data information acquisition unit further acquires display coordinate information about the icon of the associated data as the information about the associated data;

and

the display unit includes the icon of the associated data in the screen based on the display coordinate information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a screen which includes the information about the matched data acquired by the matched data information acquisition unit, and displays the information about the associated data acquired by the associated data information acquisition unit while a mouse pointer which moves in response to user'"'"'s operation is pointing to the information about the matched data.

6. A method for information processing in an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

searching for data stored in a storage device based on a search condition to acquire information about matched data which satisfies the search condition;

acquiring information about associated data which is associated with the matched data; and

displaying a screen which includes the information about the acquired matched data and the information about the acquired associated data.

7. A computer readable storage medium which stores a program for performing the method for information processing according to claim 6.