Display device having album display function

• US 8,294,787 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2007
• Issued: 10/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Hosoda, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Henn, Timothy J
• Application Number:
  US11/891,749
• Publication Number:
  US 20080049148A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,898 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.1, 348/231.99, 348/231.2, 348/231.6, 348/333.01, 348/333.05, 348/333.11
• US Class Current: 348/231.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32112 in a separate computer file, document page or paper sheet, e.g. a fax cover sheet H04N1/32122 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3242 of processing required or performed, e.g. for reproduction or before recording H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

Disclosed is a digital camera 2 including: a communication control unit 24 that receives album information A transmitted from a display control device and formed of a plurality of JPEG image files and a play list indicating a linkage among the files; a recording medium 25 that records the album information; an image display unit 222 that displays images of the plurality of recorded JPEG image files; and a CPU 261 that performs processing for displaying, on the image display unit, images of JPEG image files associated with one another by image linkage information of the play list among the plurality of JPEG image files based on an input of an image switching instruction from the operation input unit 231.

Claims

1. A document display system comprising:

a document creating device which is configured to create a document; and

a digital camera including;

an imaging unit which photographs an image;

a recording unit which records an image file of the photographed image obtained by the imaging unit, wherein a file name of the image file is determined in conformance with the DCF standard; and

a display unit which displays the photographed image recorded in the recording unit,

wherein the document creating device is configured to;

generate a plurality of image files by creating an image for each page of the document, wherein file names of the plurality of image files are determined in conformance with the DCF standard;

generate an information file of image linkage information indicating a linkage between the plurality of generated image files and the created document which is a source for generating the plurality of image files, wherein the image linkage information includes the file names of the plurality of generated image files; and

transmit the plurality of generated image files and the information file to the digital camera; and

wherein the digital camera is configured to;

receive the plurality of generated image files and the information file transmitted from the document creating device, and add and record the plurality of image files and the information file in the recording unit in conformance with the DCF standard; and

when the information file recorded in the recording unit is selected, display the plurality of image files, whose file names are included in the image linkage information in the selected information file, on the display unit switched sequentially based on an instruction operation by a user, and also display on the display unit, information regarding the created document which is the source for generating the plurality of image files indicated by the image linkage information in the selected information file.

2. The document display system according to claim 1, wherein the image linkage information includes at least one of URI information, title information, and author information of the created document.

3. The document display system according to claim 1, wherein:

the image linkage information includes page attribute information to indicate a page number of each of the plurality of image files generated from the document; and

the digital camera displays the page attribute information in a superimposing manner on the display unit.

4. The document display system according to claim 1, wherein the document creating device generates the information file of the image linkage information as an XML file classifying each item with a tag.

5. The document display system according to claim 1, wherein the digital camera is configured to display a plurality of album information, each of which includes a plurality of image files and a corresponding information file of image linkage information, to allow a user to make a selection.

6. The document display system according to claim 5, wherein:

the digital camera is configured to obtain a thumbnail image associated with each of the plurality of information files;

a list of the obtained thumbnail images is displayed to display the plurality of album information; and

a desired thumbnail image is selected from the displayed list of the thumbnail images to select a desired item of album information.

7. The document display system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image files comprise at least one of still image information, and sound-added still image information including sound information and moving picture information.

8. The document display system according to claim 1, wherein:

the document creating device generates an image file of a table of contents corresponding to the created document;

a file name of the image file of the table of contents is determined in conformance with the DCF standard;

an image of the table of contents places link information of the plurality of generated image files on one page; and

the digital camera displays the image of the table of contents, and according to an instruction operation by the user on the image of the table of contents, displays a given one of the plurality of image files according to link information of an instructed position.

9. A control method for a document display system including a document creating device which is configured to create a document, and a digital camera which includes:

(i) an imaging unit which photographs an image, (ii) a recording unit which records an image file of the photographed image obtained by the imaging unit, wherein a file name of the image file is determined in conformance with the DCF standard, and (iii) a display unit which displays the photographed image recorded in the recording unit, the control method comprising;

generating a plurality of image files by creating an image for each page of the document, wherein file names of the plurality of image files are determined in conformance with the DCF standard;

generating an information file of image linkage information indicating a linkage between the plurality of generated image files and the created document which is a source for generating the plurality of image files, wherein the image linkage information includes the file names of the plurality of generated image files;

transmitting the plurality of generated image files and the information file to the digital camera;

receiving at the digital camera, the plurality of generated image files and the information file transmitted from the document creating device, and adding and recording the plurality of image files and the information file in the recording unit in conformance with the DCF standard; and

when the information file recorded in the recording unit is selected, displaying the received plurality of image files, whose file names are included in the image linkage information in the selected information file, on the display unit switched sequentially based on an instruction operation by a user, and also displaying on the display unit, information regarding the created document which is the source for generating the plurality of image files indicated by the image linkage information in the selected information file.

10. The control method according to claim 9, further comprising:

generating an image file of a table of contents corresponding to the created document;

wherein a file name of the image file of the table of contents is determined in conformance with the DCF standard, an image of the table of contents places link information of the plurality of generated image files on one page, and when the image of the table of contents is displayed on the display unit, a given one of the plurality of image files is displayed according to link information of an instructed position.