Display control apparatus, display control method, and program

• US 9,525,823 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2015
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• 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 S
• Application Number:
  US14/832,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20150365601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 487 Days
• 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 system comprising:

circuitry configured to

recognize a predetermined type of information being stored in a memory, wherein the predetermined type of information is generated based on a plurality of image data, wherein the predetermined type of information includes at least face related information of the image data, and wherein the predetermined type of information is separate from and is not attached to the image data in the memory, and

set a first display control method that uses the predetermined type of information for displaying at least one image data based on that a first recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step and set a second display control method that does not use the predetermined type of information to generate a display screen for displaying the at least one image data based on that a second recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

output the first recognition result for setting the first display method when the predetermined type of information is stored in the memory, and

output the second recognition result for setting the second display method when the predetermined type of information is not stored in the memory.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

output the first recognition result when the predetermined type of information is stored in the memory and the predetermined type of information is usable, and

output the second recognition result when the predetermined type of information is not usable.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

output the first recognition result when the predetermined type of information is stored in the memory and a number of images used for generating the predetermined type of information is greater than a predetermined number, and

output the second recognition result when the number of images used for generating the predetermined type of information is smaller than or equal to the predetermined number.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

output the first recognition result for setting the first display method when the predetermined type of information is stored in the memory, when the database is usable, and when a number of images used for generating the predetermined type of information is greater than a predetermined number, and

output the second recognition result for setting the second display method when the predetermined type of information is not stored in the memory, when the predetermined type of information is not usable, or when the number of images used for generating the predetermined type of information is smaller than or equal to the predetermined number.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to set the first display method by using the face related information and favorite related information.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transition between the first display state and the second display state in response to an operation of the user.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined type of information itself does not include any of the plurality of image data.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined type of information is stored as a separate file from the plurality of image data.

10. A method, implemented by a system having circuitry, comprising:

performing, by the circuitry, a recognizing step of recognizing a predetermined type of information being stored in a memory, wherein the predetermined type of information is generated based on a plurality of image data, wherein the predetermined type of information includes at least face related information of the image data, and wherein the predetermined type of information is separate from and is not attached to the image data in the memory, and

setting, by the circuitry, a first display control method that uses the predetermined type of information for displaying at least one image data based on that a first recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step and set a second display control method that does not use the predetermined type of information to generate a display screen for displaying the at least one image data based on that a second recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

outputting the first recognition result for setting the first display method when the predetermined type of information is stored in the memory, and

outputting the second recognition result for setting the second display method when the predetermined type of information is not stored in the memory.

12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

outputting the first recognition result when the predetermined type of information is stored in the memory and the database is usable, and

outputting the second recognition result when the predetermined type of information is not usable.

13. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

outputting the first recognition result when the predetermined type of information is stored in the memory and a number of images used to generate the predetermined type of information is greater than a predetermined number, and

outputting the second recognition result when the number of images used to generate the predetermined type of information is smaller than or equal to the predetermined number.

14. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

outputting the first recognition result for setting the first display method when the predetermined type of information is stored in the memory, when the predetermined type of information is usable, and when a number of images used to generate the predetermined type of information is greater than a predetermined number, and

outputting the second recognition result for setting the second display method when the predetermined type of information is not stored in the memory, when the database is not usable, or when the number of images used to generate the predetermined type of information is smaller than or equal to the predetermined number.

15. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

setting the first display method by using the face related information and favorite related information.

16. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

transitioning between the first display state and the second display state in response to an operation of the user.

17. The method according to claim 10, wherein the predetermined type of information itself does not include any of the plurality of image data.

18. The method according to claim 10, wherein the predetermined type of information is stored as a separate file from the plurality of image data.

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

recognizing a predetermined type of information being stored in a memory, wherein the predetermined type of information is generated based on a plurality of image data, wherein the predetermined type of information includes at least face related information of the image data, and wherein the predetermined type of information is separate from and is not attached to the image data in the memory, and

setting a first display control method that uses the predetermined type of information for displaying at least one image data based on that a first recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step and set a second display control method that does not use the predetermined type of information to generate a display screen for displaying the at least one image data based on that a second recognition result is outputted in the recognizing step.