Display control apparatus, display control method, and program

• US 8,436,929 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2009
• Issued: 05/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Koda, Michitomo, Narukawa, Yoshitaka, Takemura, Hidenobu, Koike, Tatsunobu, Suzuki, Yasufumi
• Primary Examiner(s): MOE, AUNG SOE
• Application Number:
  US12/470,925
• Publication Number:
  US 20090303178A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 348/333.01, 348/333.13, 348/231.99, 348/231.2, 348/231.3, 348/231.7, 348/231.8, 345/156, 707/999.005
• US Class Current: 348/333.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

There is provided a display control apparatus including an external memory accommodating unit for accommodating a removable external memory; a database recognizing unit for recognizing a database stored in the external memory, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other; a display method setting unit for setting either display method of a stored first display method or a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database based on a recognition result of the database recognizing unit; and a display controlling unit for displaying the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the set display method.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

an external memory accommodating unit that accommodates a removable external memory;

a database recognizing unit that recognizes a database stored in the external memory, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other;

a display method setting unit that sets a display method of a stored first display method when the database recognizing unit outputs a first recognition result and sets a display method of a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database when the database recognizing unit outputs a second recognition result; and

a display controlling unit that displays the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the set display method.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the database recognizing unit

outputs the first recognition result for setting the first display method when the database is stored in the external memory, and

outputs the second recognition result for setting the second display method when the database is not stored in the external memory.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the database recognizing unit

outputs the first recognition result when the database is stored in the external memory and the database is usable, and

outputs the second recognition result when the database is not usable.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the database recognizing unit

outputs the first recognition result when the database is stored in the external memory and a number of images recorded in the database is greater than a predetermined number, and

outputs the second recognition result when the number of images recorded in the database is smaller than or equal to the predetermined number.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the database recognizing unit:

outputs the first recognition result for setting the first display method when the database is stored in the external memory, when the database is usable, and when a number of images recorded in the database is greater than a predetermined number, and

outputs the second recognition result for setting the second display method when the database is not stored in the external memory, when the database is not usable, or when the number of images recorded in the database is smaller than or equal to the predetermined number.

6. A display control method comprising the steps of:

a detecting step of detecting an external memory accommodated in an external memory accommodating unit for accommodating a removable external memory;

a recognizing step of recognizing a database stored in the external memory detected in the detecting step, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other;

a setting step of setting a display method of a stored first display method when a first recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step and setting a display method of a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database when a second recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step; and

displaying the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the display method set in the setting step.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the steps of:

a detecting step of detecting an external memory accommodated in an external memory accommodating unit for accommodating a removable external memory;

a recognizing step of recognizing a database stored in the external memory detected in the detecting step, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other;

a setting step of setting a display method of a stored first display method when a first recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step and setting a display method of a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database when a second recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step; and

displaying the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the display method set in the setting step.