Display control apparatus for displaying image, display control method, program and storage medium

• US 8,847,990 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2011
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Higeta, Tatsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, Kee M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wilson, Nicholas R
• Application Number:
  US13/192,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20120026193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,160 Days
• Field of Search: 345/637, 715/838
• US Class Current: 345/637
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A display control apparatus that allows a user to easily find a desired image on a multi-display screen in a short time. Attribute information of images stored in a storage medium is read out. The images stored in the storage medium is classified into a plurality of groups on the basis of the read attribute information and arranged for each group on a multi-display screen which is controlled to be displayed on a display device. Display processing is controlled so that, when the multi-display screen is displayed, an image having the highest priority of the display processing in a first group having the highest priority of the display processing of the groups is displayed first, and then display processing of an image having the highest priority of the display processing in a second group of the groups.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a reading unit configured to read out attribute information of images stored in a storage medium;

a classification unit configured to classify the images stored in the storage medium into a plurality of groups on the basis of the attribute information read out by said reading unit, the plurality of groups including a first group and a second group; and

a display control unit configured to control a multi-display screen on which the images of the groups classified by said classification unit are arranged for each group, to be displayed on a display device;

wherein said display control unit controls display processing on the multi-display screen so as

to display a first image among images classified into the first group,

to display a third image among images classified into the second group, after displaying the first image,

to display, among the images classified into the first group, a second image at a position next to the first image after displaying the third image, wherein the first image is higher in priority than the second image, and

to display, among the images classified into the second group, a fourth image at a position next to the third image after displaying the second image, wherein the third image is higher in priority than the fourth image.

2. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image attribute information is at least any of date information, event information, camera information, face information, position information, angle of view information, image name information, and image folder information.

3. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a priority of the display processing of an image included in one of the groups depends on image pickup time of the image in the group.

4. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein an image displayed first in one of the groups is an image having an oldest image pickup time in the group, and an image displayed next in the group is an image having a most recent image pickup time in the group.

5. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said display control unit further distinguishably displays each display area of the groups arranged in the multi-display screen.

6. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an operation unit including an operation key for receiving an operation by an operator,

wherein said display control unit stops the display processing of all the images to be displayed on the multi-display screen if an instruction to switch the multi-display screen to a next multi-display screen is received through the operation key before the display processing of all the images to be displayed on the multi-display screen being displayed is completed, and said display control unit starts display processing of all images to be displayed on the next multi-display screen.

7. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an operation unit including an operation key for receiving an operation by an operator, wherein said display control unit displays on the multi-display screen a selection frame for selection of one image from the images displayed on the multi-display screen, and moves the selection frame in the same order as the order of the display processing of the images displayed on said display device when a user instruction to move the selection frame is received through the operation key.

8. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display processing includes at least one of processing for decoding an encoded image stored in the storage medium and processing for further scaling the decoded image.

9. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said display control unit is configured to control the multi-display screen so that after displaying the image having the highest priority of the display processing in the second group, the image having the second highest priority of the display processing in the first group is displayed, without user operation, together with the image having the highest priority of the display processing in the first group and the image having the highest priority of the display processing in the second group.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as each unit of the display control apparatus as claimed in claim 1.

11. A method for controlling a display control apparatus, the method comprising:

a reading step of reading out attribute information of images stored in a storage medium;

a classification step of classifying the images stored in the storage medium into a plurality of groups on the basis of the attribute information read out in said reading step, the plurality of groups including a first group and a second group; and

a display control step of controlling a multi-display screen on which the images of the groups classified in said classification step are arranged for each group, to be displayed on a display device;

wherein display processing is controlled in said display control step on the multi-display screen so as to display a first image among images classified into the first group,

to display a third image among images classified into the second group, after displaying the first image,

to display, among the images classified into the first group, a second image at a position next to the first image after displaying the third image, wherein the first image is higher in priority than the second image, and

to display, among the images classified into the second group, a fourth image at a position next to the third image after displaying the second image, wherein the third image is higher in priority than the fourth image.

12. A display control apparatus that displays on a display device a multi-display screen in which a plurality of images are arranged in one screen in a predetermined order, the apparatus comprising:

a reading unit configured to read out attribute information assigned to each image, the attribute information including first attribute information and second attribute information; and

a display control unit configured, on the basis of the attribute information of each image read out by said reading unit, in display processing for one screen of the multi-display screen,

to display a first image among images to which the first attribute information is assigned,

to display a third image among images to which the second attribute information is assigned, after displaying the first image,

to display, among the images to which the first attribute information is assigned, a second image at a position next to the first image after displaying the third image, wherein the first image is higher in priority than the second image, and

to display, among the images to which the second attribute information is assigned, a fourth image at a position next to the third image after displaying the second image, wherein the third image is higher in priority than the fourth image.

13. The display control apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the display control unit is configured to control the multi-display screen so that after displaying the second image, the third image is displayed, without user operation, together with the first image and the second image.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as each unit of the display control apparatus as claimed in claim 12.

15. A method for controlling a display control apparatus that displays on a display device a multi-display screen in which a plurality of images are arranged in one screen in a predetermined order, the method comprising:

a reading step of reading out attribute information assigned to each image, the attribute information including first attribute information and second attribute information; and

a display control step of, on the basis of the attribute information of each image read out in said reading step, in display processing for one screen of the multi-display screen

to display a first image among images to which the first attribute information is assigned,

to display a third image among images to which the second attribute information is assigned, after displaying the first image,

to display, among the images to which the first attribute information is assigned, a second image at a position next to the first image after displaying the third image, wherein the first image is higher in priority than the second image.