Information processing apparatus and control method thereof

• US 8,386,582 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tokunaga, Koshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tiv, Backhean
• Application Number:
  US12/354,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20090185052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,503 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00236 using an image reading or reproducing device, e.g. a facsimile reader or printer, as a local input to or local output from a computer image input to or image output from a computer via a network H04N1/00209
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00241 using an image reading device as a local input to a computer input via network, e.g. network scanners H04N1/00225
• 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 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/651 for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera

Abstract

An information processing apparatus obtains image data included in an image file stored in a storage medium of the digital camera and the updated time of the image file stored in the storage medium of the digital camera, and reads out the shooting time of the image data included in the header of the image file stored in the storage medium of the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus displays a first view that displays the image data in an order based on the obtained updated time, and a second view that displays the image data included in the image file stored in the storage medium of the information processing apparatus in an order based on the read out shooting time.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a digital camera, the apparatus comprising:

a first obtaining unit that obtains, from the digital camera, a plurality of first image data each included in a respective first image file stored in a storage medium of the digital camera;

a second obtaining unit that obtains, from the digital camera, an updated time of the first image files respectively including the plurality of the first image data, wherein the first image files are stored in the storage medium of the digital camera;

a first readout unit that reads out a plurality of second image data each included in a respective second image file stored in a storage medium of the information processing apparatus;

a second readout unit that reads out a shooting time of the second image data, the shooting time being included in a header of the second image file; and

a display unit capable of displaying a first view that displays the plurality of first image data obtained by the first obtaining unit from the digital camera, and a second view that displays the plurality of second image data read out by the first readout unit from the storage medium of the information processing apparatus;

wherein the display unit displays the plurality of first image data in an order based on the updated time in response to start of displaying the first view, and displays the plurality of second image data in an order based on the shooting time in response to start of displaying the second view.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a switching unit that switches between displaying the first view and displaying the second view in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the second obtaining unit obtains the updated time before the first obtaining unit obtains the plurality of first image data;

and

the first obtaining unit obtains the first image data in an order based on the updated time obtained by the second obtaining unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a comparing unit that compares the updated time of the first image file stored in the storage medium of the digital camera obtained by the second obtaining unit with a shooting time of the first image data,

wherein the display unit displays the first view in an order based on the shooting time in a case where a result of a comparison performed by the comparing unit indicates that the updated time of the first image file differs from the shooting time of the first image data.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit re-displays the plurality of first image data in an order based not on the updated time of the first image files but rather on a shooting time of the plurality of first image data when the display of the plurality of first image data is updated based on a user'"'"'s operation in the first view.

6. The apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display unit re-displays the plurality of first image data in an order based not on the updated time of the first image files but rather on a shooting time of the plurality of first image data in a case where an instruction has been made to switch from the second view to the first view.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the updated time of the first image file stored in the storage medium of the digital camera is included in a file entry of first image files stored in the storage medium of the digital camera.

8. A control method for an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a digital camera, the method comprising:

a first obtaining step of obtaining, from the digital camera, a plurality of first image data each included in a respective first image file stored in a storage medium of the digital camera;

a second obtaining step of obtaining, from the digital camera, an updated time of the first image files respectively including the plurality of the first image data, wherein the first image files are stored in the storage medium of the digital camera;

a first reading step of reading out a plurality of second image data each included in a respective second image file stored in a storage medium of the information processing apparatus;

a second reading step of reading out a shooting time of the second image data, the shooting time being included in a header of the second image file; and

a display step of displaying a first view that displays the plurality of first image data obtained in the first obtaining step from the digital camera, and a second view that displays the plurality of second image data read out in the first reading step from the storage medium of the information processing apparatus;

wherein the plurality of first image data are displayed in an order based on the updated time in response to start of displaying the first view in the display step, and the plurality of second image data are displayed in an order based on the shooting time in response to start of displaying the second view in the display step, and

wherein the first and second obtaining steps, the first and second reading steps, and the display step are executed by a processer of the information processing apparatus.

9. A non-transitory storage medium in which is stored a computer-readable program for causing a computer to execute the control method of claim 8.