INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORGAE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREON

• US 20110072351A1
• Filed: 05/15/2009
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nagai, Yoshinori, Sudoh, Tatsuo, Shintani, Atsushi, Kawasoe, Tomoyuki, Kawachi, Isao, Yamashita, Yasunori
• Application Number:
  US12/992,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20110072351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/730
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• 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: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

An image display device (100A) includes: an icon display section (131) displaying a list of folder icons indicative of the folders, in an icon display area; and a preview slide show executing section (133) displaying a slide show of files stored in a folder, in a preview display area in a screen where the icon display area is present, the folder corresponding to a folder icon selected from among the folder icons displayed by the icon display means (131) in the list in the icon display area. This allows a user to easily make an operation for browsing a file or the like, concurrently with viewing a large preview screen.

Claims

1. An information processing device managing files stored in folders, the information processing device comprising:

icon display section displaying a list of folder icons indicative of the folders and thumbnail images of image files, in an icon display area; and

preview slide show executing section displaying a slide show of images of files stored in a folder, in a preview display area in a screen where the icon display area is present, the images having a size larger than a size of the thumbnail images, the folder corresponding to a folder icon on which a cursor for selecting a folder icon or an thumbnail image is placed, the folder icon being among the folder icons displayed in the list in the icon display area by the icon display section.

2. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

when the cursor is placed on a folder icon and further the folder icon is selected by the cursor, the icon display section displays, in the icon display area, a list of files and folders stored in a folder corresponding to the folder icon, the folder icon being displayed in the list in the icon display area.

3. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the preview slide show executing section displays, in the preview display area, a file corresponding to a thumbnail image on which the cursor is placed, when the cursor is placed on the thumbnail image being displayed in the icon display area by the icon display section.

4. The information processing device as set forth in claim 3, wherein:

the preview slide show executing section displays, in the preview display area, files corresponding to the folder icon on which the cursor is placed, when a predetermined regular period elapses after the cursor has been moved.

5. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

large screen slide show executing section displaying a slide show of files in another screen different from the screen of the icon display area, when the cursor is placed on a thumbnail image displayed by the icon display section in the list in the icon display area and further the thumbnail image is selected by the cursor, the files being stored in a folder containing a file corresponding to the thumbnail image.

6. The information processing device as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

a communication section for communicating with another device connected to a network; and

a print section for causing a printer connected to the network to print a file for which a print instruction is given, when the print instruction in connection to the file is accepted, the file being displayed by the large screen slide show executing section.

7. The information processing device as set forth in claim 6, further comprising:

printer management section searching for available printers that the printer section is capable of causing to print the file, the printer management section allowing a user to select a printer to be used in printing among from the available printers.

8. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a communication section for communicating with another device connected to a network,

the icon display section displaying, in the icon display area, folder icons respectively corresponding to folders in a server connected to the network,

the preview slide show executing section (i) obtaining, via the communication section, a list in which files are respectively associated with storage locations of the files, when the cursor is placed on a folder icon corresponding to a folder in the server, the list corresponding to the folder icon on which the cursor is placed, the list being obtained from the server, and (ii) then obtaining a file to be displayed in the preview display area from a storage location of the file by use of the list obtained.

9. The information processing device as set forth in claim 8, further comprising:

server management section searching, from among servers connected to the network, for available servers capable of providing the folder icon, the server management section allowing a user to select a server to be used from among the available servers.

10. The information processing device as set forth in claim 8, wherein:

the preview slide show executing section does not newly obtain another list but repeats display of a slide show of the files in the list, unless an operation for giving an instruction to stop the slide show is obtained.

11. The information processing device as set forth in claim 8, wherein:

in a case where one file is associated with a plurality of resources in the list, the preview slide show executing section determines a resource to be obtained, on the basis of one or both of (i) whether or not the resource is a resource of an original file that has not been subjected to a conversion process and (ii) a file size of a file of the resource.

15. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a communication section for communicating with another device connected to a network,

the preview slide show executing section displaying, in the preview display area, a slide show of images of image files stored in a folder corresponding to a folder icon on which the cursor is placed, the images having a file size that is larger than a file size of the thumbnail images but smaller than a file size of original image files,

the icon display section displaying, in the icon display area, folder icons respectively corresponding to folders in a server connected to the network,

the preview slide show executing section (i) obtaining, via the communication section, a list in which files are respectively associated with storage locations of the files, when the cursor is placed on the folder icon corresponding to the folder in the server, the list corresponding to the folder icon and being obtained from the server, and (ii) then obtaining an image to be displayed in the preview display area from a storage location of the file by use of the list obtained, the image having a file size that is larger than the file size of the thumbnail images but smaller than the file size of original image files.

12. An information processing method of an information processing device managing files stored in folders, the method comprising the steps of:

displaying a list of folder icons indicative of the folders and thumbnail images of image files, in an icon display area; and

displaying a slide show of images of files stored in a folder, in a preview display area within a screen where the icon display area is present, the images having a size larger than a size of the thumbnail images, the folder corresponding to a folder icon on which a cursor for selecting a folder icon or an thumbnail image is placed, the folder icon being among the folder icons displayed in the list in the icon display area by the icon display section.

13. A non-transitory storage medium storing an information processing program for causing a computer to carry out the steps of:

displaying a list of folder icons indicative of the folders and thumbnail images of image files, in an icon display area; and

displaying a slide show of images of files stored in a folder, in a preview display area within a screen where the icon display area is present, the images having a size larger than a size of the thumbnail images, the folder corresponding to a folder icon on which a cursor for selecting a folder icon or an thumbnail image is placed, the folder icon being among the folder icons displayed in the list in the icon display area by the icon display section.

14. (canceled)