Imaging apparatus and user interface

• US 8,732,580 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2012
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoritate, Miwako, Kobayashi, Motoki, Funabashi, Yoshimitsu, Iriya, Shinichi, Sasaki, Kayo
• Primary Examiner(s): SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T
• Application Number:
  US13/483,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20120236194A1
• Time in Patent Office: 720 Days
• Field of Search: 348/333.02, 715/704, 715/716, 715/730, 715/828
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

A screen ST1 of an LCD with which a digital camera is provided displays an icon of a folder F1 indicating that the folder F1 has been selected. Image files P11 and P12 are captured reproduced images. A display frame SC displays a currently captured picture of an object, files P11 and P12, and the icon of the folder F1. To switch the folder F1 to a folder F2, the user presses a down button of a cross key 27. When the user presses the down button on the screen ST1, the screen ST1 is switched to a screen ST3 through a screen ST2. On the screen ST2, the number denoted in the icon is changed. The screen ST2 displays a state of which the folders are being switched. An icon displayed on the screen ST3 indicates that the folder F1 was switched to the folder F2.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

display images in a first folder and a second folder,

output a signal to switch the first and second folders in response to an input, and

control the display of the images so that a screen displaying an image in the first folder and a currently-captured image are switched to a screen displaying an image in the second folder and the currently-captured image in response to the signal, the switching of screens being intermediated by an animated transition display screen simultaneously displaying at least partial images of an image on the first folder, an image in the second folder and the currently-captured image.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, where images stored in the first and second folder are displayed along a time axis.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an icon corresponding to one of the first and second folders indicates that the first and second folders were switched.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein images displayed on a right side of the time axis are more recent than images displayed on a left side of the time axis.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the icon is embedded in the currently-captured image.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the icon is a folder number corresponding to one of the first and second folders based on the signal to switch the first and second folders.

7. An electronic apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

display images in a first folder and a second folder,

output a signal to switch the first and second folders in response to an input,

control the display of the images so that a first screen displaying an image in the first folder and a currently captured image is switched to a second screen displaying an image in the second folder and the currently captured image in response to the signal, and

control the currently captured image to be stored in the first folder in response to a shutter operation while the first screen is displayed and the currently captured image to be stored in the second folder when the shutter operation occurs while the second screen is displayed.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein a state of the first screen and a state of the second screen is indicated by an icon.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the icon is embedded in one of the first and second screens.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the icon includes a folder number corresponding to the first folder when the first screen is displayed, and the icon includes a folder number corresponding to the second folder when the second screen is displayed.

11. A method for an electronic apparatus, comprising:

displaying, in a circuit, images in a first folder and a second folder;

outputting, from the circuit, a signal to switch the first and second folders in response to an input; and

controlling, in the circuit, the display of the images so that a screen displaying an image in the first folder and a currently-captured image are switched to a screen displaying an image in the second folder and the currently-captured image in response to the signal, the switching of screens being intermediated by an animated transition display screen simultaneously displaying at least partial images of an image on the first folder, an image in the second folder and the currently-captured image.

12. The method according to claim 11, where images stored in the first and second folder are displayed along a time axis.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein an icon corresponding to one of the first and second folders indicates that the first and second folders were switched.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein images displayed on a right side of the time axis are more recent than images displayed on a left side of the time axis.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the icon is embedded in the currently-captured image.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the icon is a folder number corresponding to one of the first and second folders based on the signal to switch the first and second folders.

17. A method for an electronic apparatus, comprising:

displaying, in a circuit, images in a first folder and a second folder;

outputting, from the circuit, an output a signal to switch the first and second folders in response to an input; and

controlling, at the circuit, the display of the images so that a first screen displaying an image in the first folder and a currently captured image is switched to a second screen displaying an image in the second folder and the currently captured image in response to the signal; and

controlling, at the circuit, the currently captured image to be stored in the first folder in response to a shutter operation while the first screen is displayed and the currently captured image to be stored in the second folder when the shutter operation occurs while the second screen is displayed.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein a state of the first screen and a state of the second screen is indicated by an icon.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the icon is embedded in one of the first and second screens.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the icon includes a folder number corresponding to the first folder when the first screen is displayed, and the icon includes a folder number corresponding to the second folder when the second screen is displayed.