Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program

• US 7,870,190 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2007
• Issued: 01/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takakura, Hiroki, Miyagi, Shiro, Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan; Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yohannes; Tesfay
• Application Number:
  US11/753,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20070282941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,328 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/203
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor

Abstract

An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the image data reference information to the server, the server creates the display structure description file and transmits the created display structure description file to the client, and the client executes processing for displaying a map on a display unit on the basis of the display structure description file received from the server and acquiring image data from a storage unit within the client on the basis of the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file and then displaying the acquired image data on the display unit.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a client configured to execute information display processing in accordance with a display structure description file; and

a server configured to create the display structure description file in accordance with description file creating data received from the client,

wherein the client generates image data reference information identifying a location of the image data stored in a client storage unit of the client and includes the image data reference information in the description file creating data,

the server creates the display structure description file in accordance with the description file creating data and integrates the image data reference information into the display structure description file, and

the client retrieves from the client storage unit the image data using the image data reference information, and displays a map in conjunction with the image data on a display unit thereof according to the display structure description file received from the server.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the display structure description file is an HTML file.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit of the client is a removable storage unit configured to be detachably mounted on the client.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the description file creating data includes position information corresponding to the image data designated by the image data reference information, the position information is included in the display structure description file, and the map displayed in the display unit includes a marker indicating the position information corresponding to the image data.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the client acquires reduced image data reference information identifying locations of reduced images corresponding to the image data and stored in the storage unit, and includes the reduced image data reference information in the description file creating data, the server creates the display structure description file and map information in accordance with the reduced image data reference information included in the description file creating data, and the client displays the map information on the display unit according to the display structure description file and the reduced image data identified by the reduced image data reference information.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the client transmits data included in the display structure description file to a map information providing server, and acquires map information from the map information providing server in response, the client displaying the map information on the display unit.

7. An information processing apparatus that executes information display processing, comprising:

a storage unit configured to store image data; and

a data processing unit configured to generate image data reference information identifying a location of the image data in the storage unit, the data processing unit generating description file creating data including the image data reference information and transmitting the description file creating data to a server, the data processing unit displaying map information on a display unit on the basis of a display structure description file received from the server and displaying, in conjunction with the map information, the image data corresponding to the image data reference information included in the display structure description file.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the display structure description file is an HTML file.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the storage unit is a removable storage unit configured to be detachably mounted in the information processing apparatus.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the data processing unit transmits position information corresponding to the image data designated by the image data reference information in the description file creating data to the server, the data processing unit displaying the information including a marker indicating the position information corresponding to the image data according to the display structure description file received from the server.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the data processing unit acquires reduced image data reference information identifying a location of reduced images corresponding to the image data stored in the storage unit and includes the reduced image data reference information in the description file creating data, the data processing unit displaying the map information on the display according to the display structure description file in conjunction with the reduced image data identified by the reduced image data reference information.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the data processing unit transmits data included in the display structure description file to a map information providing server, and acquires map information from the map information providing server in response, the data processing unit displaying the acquired map information on the display unit.

13. An information processing apparatus that creates a display structure description file on the basis of data received from a client, comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive description file creating data including image data reference information generated by the client, the image data reference information identifying a location of image data in a storage unit of the client; and

a data processing unit configured to create the display structure description file for displaying image data in conjunction with map information according to the description file creating data, the data processing unit integrating the image data reference information in the display structure description file, the data processing unit transmitting the display structure description file to the client through the communication unit.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the display structure description file is an HTML file.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the data processing unit creates a display structure description file including position information corresponding to image data received from the client and transmits the created display structure description file to the client.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the data processing unit creates a display structure description file for displaying reduced image data in conjunction with the map information according to description file creating data including reduced image data reference information identifying a location of the reduced image data on the storage unit of the client, the data processing unit transmitting the display structure description file to the client.

17. An information processing method executed in an information processing apparatus, comprising:

generating, in a data processing unit, image data reference information identifying a location of image data stored in a storage unit of the information processing apparatus;

generating, in the data processing unit, description file creating data including the image data reference information;

transmitting the description file creating data from the information processing apparatus to a server;

displaying map information on a display unit according to a display structure description file received from the server;

acquiring image data from the storage unit in accordance with the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file received from the server; and

displaying the image data on the display unit in conjunction with the map information.

18. The information processing method according to claim 17,

wherein the display structure description file is an HTML file.

19. The information processing method according to claim 17, wherein the display structure description file includes position information corresponding to the image data designated by the image data reference information, and the map information includes a marker indicating the position information corresponding to the image data on the display unit.

20. The information processing method according to claim 17, wherein the description file creating data includes reduced image data reference information identifying locations of reduced images of the image data in the storage unit, and the map information is displayed on the display unit in conjunction with the reduced image data according to the display structure description file received from the server and the reduced image data acquired from the storage unit.

21. The information processing method according to claim 17, further comprising:

transmitting, from the data processing unit, data included in the display structure description file to a map information providing server; and

acquiring, in the data processing unit, map information from the map information providing server, the acquired map information being displayed on the display unit.

22. An information processing method of causing an information processing apparatus to execute processing based on data received from a client, comprising:

receiving, in a communication unit, description file creating data including image data reference information generated by the client, the image data reference information identifying a location of image data stored in a storage unit of the client; and

creating, in a data processing unit, a display structure description file for displaying image data in conjunction with map information according to the description file creating data, the image data being designated by the image data reference information, the image data reference information being integrated into the display structure description file; and

transmitting, from the communication unit, the display structure description file to the client.

23. The information processing method according to claim 22,

wherein the display structure description file is an HTML file.

24. The information processing method according to claim 22, wherein the display structure description file includes position information corresponding to image data received from the client.

25. The information processing method according to claim 22, wherein the display structure description file includes reduced image reference information identifying reduces images corresponding to the image data in the storage unit of the client, the display structure description file being created according to the description file creating data including the reduced image data reference information, the created display structure description file being transmitted to the client.

26. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer-readable instructions when executed by a processor of an information processing apparatus cause the processor to perform the method comprising:

generating image data reference information identifying a location of image data stored in a storage unit of the information processing apparatus;

generating description file creating data including the image data reference information;

transmitting the description file creating data from the information processing apparatus to a server;

displaying map information on a display unit according to a display structure description file received from the server;

acquiring image data from the storage unit in accordance with the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file; and

displaying the image data on the display unit in conjunction with the map information.

27. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer-readable instructions when executed by a processor of an information processing apparatus cause the processor to perform the method comprising:

receiving description file creating data including image data reference information generated by the client, the image data reference information identifying a location of image data stored in a storage unit of a client; and

creating a display structure description file for displaying image data in conjunction with map information according to the description file creating data, the image data being designated by the image data reference information, the image data reference information being inserted in the display structure description file; and

transmitting the display structure description file to the client.