Information processing apparatus and control method thereof

• US 9,019,384 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2013
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tokunaga, Koshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tiv, Backhean
• Application Number:
  US13/747,773
• Publication Number:
  US 20130135483A1
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00236 using an image reading or reproducing device, e.g. a facsimile reader or printer, as a local input to or local output from a computer image input to or image output from a computer via a network H04N1/00209
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00241 using an image reading device as a local input to a computer input via network, e.g. network scanners H04N1/00225
• 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 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/651 for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera

Abstract

An information processing apparatus obtains image data included in an image file stored in a storage medium of the digital camera and the updated time of the image file stored in the storage medium of the digital camera, and reads out the shooting time of the image data included in the header of the image file stored in the storage medium of the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus displays a first view that displays the image data in an order based on the obtained updated time, and a second view that displays the image data included in the image file stored in the storage medium of the information processing apparatus in an order based on the read out shooting time.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a control unit configured to control the information processing apparatus,

wherein the control unit performs;

a first obtaining step of obtaining, from the external apparatus, a plurality of first image data each included in a first image file stored in a storage medium of the external apparatus;

a second obtaining step of obtaining information of the first image files from a management area of the storage medium of the external apparatus;

a first readout step of reading out a plurality of second image data each included in a second image file stored in a storage medium of the information processing apparatus; and

a second readout step of reading out an information of the second image data from header of the second image file; and

an output step of outputting a first view that outputs the plurality of first image data obtained from the external apparatus, and a second view that outputs the plurality of second image data read out from the storage medium of the information processing apparatus;

wherein the plurality of first image data are outputted in an order based on the information of the first image files from the management area of the storage medium of the external apparatus in response to start of outputting the first view in the output step, and the plurality of second image data are outputted in an order based on the information of the second image files from header of the second image files in response to start of outputting the second view in the output step.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit further performs a switching step of switching between outputting the first view and outputting the second view in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein, in the output step, the control unit re-outputs the plurality of first image data in an order based not on the information of the first image files obtained from the management area of the storage medium of the external apparatus but rather on information stored in a header of the first image files in a case where an instruction has been made to switch from the second view to the first view.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in the second obtaining step, the information of the first image files is obtained before the plurality of first image data are obtained in the first obtaining step;

and

in the first obtaining step, the control unit obtains the first image data in an order based on the information of the first image files obtained in the second obtaining step.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit further performs a comparing step of comparing the information of the first image files stored in the storage medium of the external apparatus obtained in the second obtaining step with information stored in a header of the first image files,

wherein in the output step, the control unit outputs the first view in an order based on the information stored in a header of the first image files in a case where a result of a comparison performed in the comparing step indicates that the information of the first image files obtained from the management area of the storage medium of the external apparatus differs from the information stored in the header of the first image files.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in the output step, the control unit re-outputs the plurality of first image data in an order based not on the information of the first image files obtained from the management area of the storage medium of the external apparatus but rather on information stored in a header of the first image files when the output of the plurality of first image data is updated based on a user'"'"'s operation in the first view.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the management area is an entry of the storage medium of the external apparatus.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processing apparatus and the external apparatus are connected by wired communication.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processing apparatus and the external apparatus are connected via USB (Universal Serial Bus) cable.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processing apparatus and the external apparatus are connected by wireless communication.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processing apparatus and the external apparatus are connected in accordance with IEEE802.11.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein communication between the image processing apparatus and the external apparatus is performed in accordance with PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol).

13. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the management area is an area other than an area where the image file managed by a file system is recorded.

14. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in the second readout step, the control unit reads out the information of the second image data from Exif area, wherein the Exif area is an area existing within the header of the second image file.

15. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein information of the first image files recorded in the management area includes at least one of a name of the first image file, shooting time, update time, and file size.

16. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the external apparatus is an image capturing device.

17. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first image data is recorded in a header of the first image file, and the second image data is recorded in a header of the second image file.

18. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information of the first image file recorded in the management area includes update time and the information of the second image file recorded in the header of the second image file includes shooting time.

19. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit comprises a display unit, and the output unit outputs the image data by displaying the first and second image data.

20. A control method for an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus, the method comprising:

a first obtaining step, by a control unit configured to control the information processing apparatus, of obtaining, from the external apparatus, a plurality of first image data each included in a first image file stored in a storage medium of the external apparatus;

a second obtaining step, by a control unit configured to control the information processing apparatus, of obtaining information of the first image files from a management area of the storage medium of the external apparatus;

a first reading step, by a control unit configured to control the information processing apparatus, of reading out a plurality of second image data each included in a second image file stored in a storage medium of the information processing apparatus; and

a second reading step, by a control unit configured to control the information processing apparatus, of reading out an information of the second image data from header of the second image file; and

a output step, by a control unit configured to control the information processing apparatus, of outputting a first view that outputs the plurality of first image data obtained in the first obtaining step from the external apparatus, and a second view that output s the plurality of second image data read out in the first reading step from the storage medium of the information processing apparatus;

wherein the plurality of first image data are outputted in an order based on the information of the first image files from the management area of the storage medium of the external apparatus in response to start of outputting the first view in the output step, and the plurality of second image data are outputted in an order based on the information of the second image files from header of the second image files in response to start of outputting the second view in the output step.

21. A non-transitory storage medium in which is stored a computer-readable program for causing a computer to execute the control method of claim 20.