DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20090153676A1
• Filed: 12/12/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Morita, Masahiko, Ogawa, Yasuyuki, Kondo, Hiroshi, Nakase, Yuichi, Takagi, Yousuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,208,040 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.990
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00427 using a menu list H04N1/00421, H04N1/00424, H04N1/00429 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0045 vertically
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/325 Modified version of the image, e.g. part of the image, image reduced in size or resolution, thumbnail or screennail
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3277 The additional information being stored in the same storage device as the image data

Abstract

The present invention provides a display control apparatus comprising a read out unit configured to read out an image from a recording medium, a classification unit configured to classify a plurality of images into a plurality of groups in accordance with attribute information of each image, a display control unit configured to control to display a representative image which represents each of the plurality of groups, a comparison unit configured to compare an image included in one of the plurality of groups classified by the classification unit with an image included in another group, and a determination unit configured to determine one of images included in the one group as a representative image of the one group based on comparison by the comparison unit, the image not overlapping a representative image of the other group.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a read out unit configured to read out an image from a recording medium;

a classification unit configured to classify a plurality of images into a plurality of groups in accordance with attribute information of each image;

a display control unit configured to control to display a representative image which represents each of the plurality of groups;

a comparison unit configured to compare an image included in one of the plurality of groups classified by the classification unit with an image included in another group; and

a determination unit configured to determine one of images included in the one group as a representative image of the one group based on comparison by the comparison unit, the image not overlapping a representative image of the other group.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines one of images which do not overlap the representative image of the other group as the representative image of the one group, the image having the minimum number of attribute information used for classification by the classification unit.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the comparison unit compares the image included in the one group with the representative image of the other group.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines one of images which do not overlap the representative image of the other group as the representative image of the one group, the image having a minimum file number added in a generated order of the images.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an image capturing unit configured to capture an object,

wherein the recording medium records an image captured by the image capturing unit.

6. A display control apparatus comprising:

a read out unit configured to read out an image from a recording medium;

a classification unit configured to classify a plurality of images into a plurality of groups in accordance with attribute information of each image;

a display control unit configured to control to display a representative image which represents each of the plurality of groups; and

a determination unit configured to determine one of images included in one of the plurality of groups classified by the classification unit as a representative image of the one group, the image having the minimum number of attribute information used for classification by the classification unit.

7. A display control method comprising:

a read out step for reading out an image from a recording medium;

a classification step for classifying a plurality of images into a plurality of groups in accordance with attribute information of each image;

a display control step for controlling to display a representative image which represents each of the plurality of groups;

a comparison step for comparing an image included in one of the plurality of groups classified in the classification step with an image included in another group; and

a determination step for determining one of images included in the one group as a representative image of the one group based on comparison in the comparison step, the image not overlapping a representative image of the other group.

8. A display control method comprising:

a read out step for reading out an image from a recording medium;

a classification step for classifying a plurality of images into a plurality of groups in accordance with attribute information of each image;

a display control step for controlling to display a representative image which represents each of the plurality of groups; and

a determination step for determining one of images included in one of the plurality of groups classified in the classification step as a representative image of the one group, the image having the minimum number of attribute information used for classification in the classification step.

9. A computer readable recording medium which records a program for causing a computer to execute a display control method, the program causing the computer to execute:

a read out step for reading out an image from a recording medium;

a classification step for classifying a plurality of images into a plurality of groups in accordance with attribute information of each image;

a display control step for controlling to display a representative image which represents each of the plurality of groups;

a comparison step for comparing an image included in one of the plurality of groups classified in the classification step with an image included in another group; and

a determination step for determining one of images included in the one group as a representative image of the one group based on comparison in the comparison step, the image not overlapping a representative image of the other group.

10. A computer readable recording medium which records a program for causing a computer to execute a display control method, the program causing the computer to execute:

a read out step for reading out an image from a recording medium;

a classification step for classifying a plurality of images into a plurality of groups in accordance with attribute information of each image;

a display control step for controlling to display a representative image which represents each of the plurality of groups; and

a determination step for determining one of images included in one of the plurality of groups classified in the classification step as a representative image of the one group, the image having the minimum number of attribute information used for classification in the classification step.