Image file management apparatus and method, program, and storage medium

• US 20060044416A1
• Filed: 08/25/2005
• Published: 03/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Shigeyuki, Kitamaru, Yoshinobu
• Granted Patent: US 7,448,001 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/231.200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

An object of this invention is to easily identify an image file transferred from an image input apparatus and saved in an image file management apparatus. In an image file management method of saving an image file transferred from an image input apparatus in a folder created in accordance with the photographing date information of the image file, when transferred image files include one kind of photographing date, one kind of folder to save the image files is displayed on a screen as a current folder. When a plurality of kinds of photographing dates are present, a folder of an upper hierarchy which includes a plurality of folders created in correspondence with the plurality of kinds of photographing dates is displayed on the screen as the current folder.

Claims

1. An image file management apparatus for saving an image file in a folder in accordance with information of the image file, wherein

when one kind of image files are present, one kind of folder to save the image files is displayed on a screen as a current folder, and when a plurality of kinds of image files are present, a folder of an upper hierarchy which includes a plurality of folders corresponding to the plurality of kinds is displayed on the screen as the current folder.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information of the image file is photographing date information.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image file is an image file input from an image input apparatus.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein an image input from the image input apparatus is displayed on the screen so as to discriminate the image from another image.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein all images saved in the image file management apparatus are displayed.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the folder of the upper hierarchy which includes the plurality of folders is a folder common to hierarchies above the plurality of folders.

7. An image file management method of saving an image file in a folder in accordance with information of the image file, wherein

when one kind of image files are present, one kind of folder to save the image files is displayed on a screen as a current folder, and when a plurality of kinds of image files are present, a folder of an upper hierarchy which includes a plurality of folders corresponding to the plurality of kinds is displayed on the screen as the current folder.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the information of the image file is photographing date information.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the image file is an image file input from an image input apparatus.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein an image input from the image input apparatus is displayed on the screen so as to discriminate the image from another image.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein all images saved in the image file management apparatus are displayed.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein the folder of the upper hierarchy which includes the plurality of folders is a folder common to hierarchies above the plurality of folders.

13. A program causing a computer to execute an image file management method of claim 7.

14. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program of claim 13.