Display control apparatus, display control method, and program

• US 8,760,550 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2013
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• 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:
  US13/856,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20130222665A1
• Time in Patent Office: 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 method, implemented on a display control apparatus, comprising:

recognizing a database stored in a memory, the database including information for organizing a plurality of images from at least one of a file name of an image, face related information, and favorite related information; and

setting a display method to be a first display control method that uses the database to display the image when a first recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step and setting the display method to be a second display control method of displaying the image without using the database when a second recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step.

2. The display control method according to claim 1, wherein the recognizing step includes:

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

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

3. The display control method according to claim 1, wherein the recognizing step includes:

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

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

4. The display control method according to claim 1, wherein the recognizing step includes:

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

outputting 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 method according to claim 1, wherein the recognizing step includes:

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

outputting the second recognition result for setting the second display method when the database is not stored in the 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. The display control method according to claim 1, wherein the setting step includes setting the first display method by using the face related information and the favorite related information.

7. The display control method according to claim 1, wherein the database itself does not include any of the plurality of images.

8. The display control method according to claim 1, wherein the database is stored as a separate file from the plurality of images.

9. The display control method according to claim 1, wherein the database includes information for organizing the plurality of images from all of a file name of an image, face related information, and favorite related information.

10. The display control method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when the second recognition result is output, controlling to display a list of images based on a respective folder in which a respective image is stored.

11. The display control method according to claim 10, wherein the list of images is displayed as a plurality of thumbnail images as a first display state, and when one of the thumbnail images is selected by a user, the method includes controlling to display an image corresponding to the thumbnail image selected by the user as a second display state, and the method includes transitioning between the first display state and the second display state in response to an operation of the user.

12. The display control method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when the first recognition result is output, controlling to display a list of images extracted based on the favorite related information in which one or more images include information directly set by the user indicating that the one or more images are favorite images of the user.

13. The display control method according to claim 1, wherein the database further includes information for organizing the plurality of images from date information, and when the first recognition result is output, controlling to display a list of images extracted based on the date information.

14. The display control method according to claim 2, further comprising:

creating the database when the second recognition result is outputted.

15. A display control apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

recognize a database stored in a memory, the database being configured to include information for organizing a plurality of images from at least one of a file name of an image, face related information, and favorite related information; and

set a display method to be a first display control method that uses the database to display the image when the circuitry outputs a first recognition result as a result of recognizing a database stored in the memory, and set a display control method to be a second display method of displaying the image without using the database when the circuitry outputs a second recognition result as a result of not recognizing a database stored in the memory.

16. A display control method comprising:

recognizing a database stored in a memory, the database including information for organizing a plurality of images from a file name of an image, face related information, and favorite related information;

setting a display method to be a first display control method that uses the database to display the image when a first recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step and setting a display method to be a second display control method of displaying the image without using the database when a second recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step; and

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

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program that when implemented by a display control apparatus causes the display control apparatus to perform a display control method comprising:

recognizing a database stored in a memory, the database including information for organizing a plurality of images from at least one of a file name of an image, face related information, and favorite related information; and

setting a display method to be a first display control method that uses the database to display the image when a first recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step and setting the display method to be a second display control method of displaying the image without using the database when a second recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the recognizing step includes:

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

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

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 18, further comprising:

creating the database when the second recognition result is outputted.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the recognizing step includes:

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

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

21. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the recognizing step includes:

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

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

22. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the recognizing step includes:

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

outputting the second recognition result for setting the second display method when the database is not stored in the 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.

23. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the setting step includes setting the first display method by using the face related information and the favorite related information.

24. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the database itself does not include any of the plurality of images.

25. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the database is stored as a separate file from the plurality of images.

26. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the database includes information for organizing the plurality of images from all of a file name of an image, face related information, and favorite related information.

27. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, further comprising:

when the second recognition result is output, controlling to display a list of images based on a respective folder in which a respective image is stored.

28. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 27, wherein the list of images is displayed as a plurality of thumbnail images as a first display state, and when one of the thumbnail images is selected by a user, the method includes controlling to display an image corresponding to the thumbnail image selected by the user as a second display state, and the method includes transitioning between the first display state and the second display state in response to an operation of the user.

29. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, further comprising:

when the first recognition result is output, controlling to display a list of images extracted based on the favorite related information in which one or more images include information directly set by the user indicating that the one or more images are favorite images of the user.

30. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the database further includes information for organizing the plurality of images from date information, and when the first recognition result is output, controlling to display a list of images extracted based on the date information.