Display control apparatus, display control method, and program

• US 9,154,703 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2014
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• 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:
  US14/271,500
• Publication Number:
  US 20140240574A1
• Time in Patent Office: 517 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, 382/305, 707/999.005
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 method, implemented on an apparatus including circuitry, comprising:

recognizing, by the circuitry, a database stored in a memory, the database includes, for organizing a plurality of images, a file name of an image and attribute information of an image, wherein the database is stored as a single file or file group that corresponds to the plurality of images and is separate from and not attached to image data of the plurality of images; and

setting, by the circuitry, a display method to be a first display control method that uses the database to display the image on the basis of a first recognition result in the recognizing step and setting the display method to be a second display control method that is for displaying a list of the images based on a respective folder in which a respective image is stored on the basis of a second recognition result in the recognizing step.

2. The 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 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 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 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 method according to claim 1, wherein the setting step includes setting the first display method by using the attribute information.

7. The method according to claim 1, 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.

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

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the file group is configured from a plurality of files.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information of the image comprises information related to a subject included in the image.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the information related to the subject is indicative of a face included in the image.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the information related to the subject is indicative of number of subjects included in the image.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information of the image comprises time information, the time information is indicative of a time when each image was imaged.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the first display control method is for displaying a list of the images based on the time information.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information of the image comprises favorite related information, the favorite related information is indicative of a flag set by a user operation for each image.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the first display control method is for displaying a list of the images based on the favorite related information.

17. An apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

perform a recognizing step of recognizing a database stored in a memory, the database includes, for organizing a plurality of images, a file name of an image and attribute information of an image, wherein the database is stored as a single file or a file group that corresponds to the plurality of images and is separate from and not attached to image data of the plurality of images; and

set a display method to be a first display control method that uses the database to display the image on the basis of a first recognition result in the recognizing step and setting the display method to be a second display control method that is for displaying a list of the images based on a respective folder in which a respective image is stored on the basis of a second recognition result in the recognizing step.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

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

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

19. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

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

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

20. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

output 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

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

21. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

output 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

output 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.

22. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

set the first display method by using the attribute information.

23. The apparatus according to claim 17, 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 circuitry is configured to control display of an image corresponding to the thumbnail image selected by the user as a second display state, and transition between the first display state and the second display state in response to an operation of the user.

24. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the database itself does not include any of the plurality of images.

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

recognizing, by the circuitry, a database stored in a memory, the database includes, for organizing a plurality of images, a file name of an image and attribute information of an image, wherein the database is stored as a single file or a file group that corresponds to the plurality of images and is separate from and not attached to image data of the plurality of images; and

setting, by the circuitry, a display method to be a first display control method that uses the database to display the image on the basis of a first recognition result in the recognizing step and setting the display method to be a second display control method that is for displaying a list of the images based on a respective folder in which a respective image is stored on the basis of a second recognition result in the recognizing step.

26. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 25, 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.