Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium storing image processing program

• US 8,953,081 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2009
• Issued: 02/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Miyagawa, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Daniels, Anthony J
• Application Number:
  US13/131,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20110228109A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,891 Days
• Field of Search: 348/333.05, 348/231.99, 348/231.6, 345/634
• US Class Current: 348/333.05
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00421 using drop-down menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00437 Intelligent menus, e.g. anticipating user selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• 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 1/00453 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 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver

Abstract

An image processing apparatus for displaying an image read from a recording medium has a mechanism capable of displaying an image for a desired page immediately after an instruction has been given by a user to change a page to be displayed. The image processing apparatus includes a priority determination unit that determines the priorities of pages, and a page specifying unit for allowing a user to change a page to be displayed. In accordance with a result of the priority determination unit, the reading of image data from an image recording medium is started without waiting for the page specifying unit to be operated.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to, in a case where display target(s) by a display are changed from one or more first display items to one or more second display items in accordance with an operation by a user, cause the display to display the one or more second display items; and

a reading unit configured to read one or more third display items, from a memory, for the displaying by the display control unit in a state where the one or more second display items are displayed on the display by the display control unit and where the one or more third display items are not the display target(s),

wherein the reading unit reads the one or more third display items according to a priority, of the one or more third display items, corresponding to a content of an operation which has been performed by a user for making the one or more second display items the display target(s).

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display target(s) are one or more images to be displayed.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit causes the display to display a page including a plurality of images.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reading unit reads the one or more third display items according to the priority corresponding to a content of a first operation which has been performed by a user for making the one or more second display items the display target(s) and a content of a second operation which is to be performed by the user for making the one or more third display items the display target(s).

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the reading unit reads the one or more third display items according to the priority based on whether the content of the first operation and the content of the second operation are same or not.

6. The apparatus according to Claim 5, wherein the display target(s) are changed in accordance with an operation for instructing a direction by a user, and the priority is based on whether a first direction corresponding to the first operation and a second direction corresponding to the second operation are same or not.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein in a case where the first direction and the second direction are same, one or more display items corresponding to the first direction and the second direction has a higher priority than one or more display items corresponding to a backward direction to a first direction and the second direction.

8. The apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a determination unit configured to determine the priority of the one or more third display items, and the reading unit reads the one or more third display items according to the priority determined by the determination unit.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the determination unit determines the priority based on a number of the second operation(s) required to make the one or more third display items the display target(s).

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the determination unit sets a high priority for a display item that is displayable with a small number of second operations.

11. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the memory is an external memory, and the reading unit reads the display item from the external memory to a memory included in the apparatus.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the determination unit determines the priority, based on both of contents of the first and second operations by the user and the one or more second display items.

13. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the determination unit determines the priority, based on both of contents of the first and second operations by the user and the one or more third display items.

14. The apparatus according to Claim 13, wherein the determination unit determines the priority, based on the operation by a user and a size of the display item.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the method according to claim 7.

15. A method comprising:

causing, in a case where display target(s) by a display are changed from one or more first display items to one or more second display items in accordance with an operation by a user, the display to display the one or more second display items; and

reading one or more third display items from the memory for the displaying in a state where the one or more second display items is displayed on the display and where the one or more third display items are not a display target(s),

wherein the reading reads the one or more third display items according to a priority, of the one or more third display items, corresponding to a content of an operation which has been performed by a user for making the one or more second display items the display target(s).