DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS LIST OF IMAGES ONTO DISPLAY UNIT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR

• US 20120032988A1
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: KATAYAMA, Tatsushi
• Application Number:
  US13/197,834
• Publication Number:
  US 20120032988A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/684
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/346 for systems having a bit-mapped display memory

Abstract

A display control apparatus that is capable of searching for a desired image from massive images listed by scrolling on a display unit. The display control apparatus controls a display unit to display a list of images. A display control unit controls so that the images are displayed in a predetermined order on the display unit. A scrolling control unit controls so as to scroll the images displayed on the display unit. A control unit configured to control the display control unit to decrease the number of images displayed in a screen and to increase a size of the displayed images when the scrolling control unit changes scrolling speed from low speed to high speed.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus that controls a display unit to display a list of images, comprising:

a display control unit configured to control so that the images are displayed in a predetermined order on the display unit;

a scrolling control unit configured to control so as to scroll the images displayed on the display unit; and

a control unit configured to control said display control unit to decrease the number of images displayed in a screen and to increase a size of the displayed images when said scrolling control unit changes scrolling speed from low speed to high speed.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control unit controls said display control unit to decrease the number of images that are targets to be displayed as the scrolling speed increases.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an acquisition unit configured to acquire attribution information about an image,

wherein said control unit selects images that are targets to be displayed based on the attribution information acquired by said acquisition unit.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the attribution information includes information given to improve priority as the target to be displayed according to a user'"'"'s operation.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the attribution information includes information about faces detected from the image.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the attribution information includes information about date of shooting.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said display control unit displays in a form to express overlap in a depth direction of the image to be displayed, and wherein the depth of the overlap becomes deeper as said scrolling control unit increases the scrolling speed.

8. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display control unit displays information about date of shooting on the display unit when said scrolling control unit increases the scrolling speed.

9. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a receiving unit configured to receive a user'"'"'s operation to instruct scrolling images,

wherein said scrolling control unit controls the scrolling speed according to the operation received by said receiving unit, and

wherein said control unit controls said display control unit to decrease the number of images displayed in a screen and to increase a size of the displayed images when the operation received by said receiving unit instructs to change the scrolling speed from low speed to high speed.

10. The display control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said scrolling control unit changes the scrolling speed from low speed to high speed when pushed time of an operating member as said receiving unit is beyond a threshold value.

11. The display control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said scrolling control unit changes the scrolling speed from low speed to high speed when speed of a rotary operation to an operating member as said receiving unit is beyond a threshold value.

12. The display control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said scrolling control unit changes the scrolling speed from low speed to high speed when moving speed of a touch position to a touch operation member as said receiving unit is beyond a threshold value.

13. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control unit gradually reduces the display size of the images that said display control unit displays, and increases the number of the images to be displayed on one screen when said scrolling control unit stops the scrolling operation.

14. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a determination unit configured to determine whether the display unit displays one image when said scrolling control unit stops the scrolling operation,

wherein said control unit controls the display unit to reproduce a moving image when said determination unit determines that the display unit displays one image.

15. A control method for a display control apparatus that controls a display unit to display a list of images, the control method comprising:

a display control step of controlling so that the images are displayed in a predetermined order on the display unit;

a scrolling control step of controlling so as to scroll the images displayed on the display unit; and

a control step of controlling so as to decrease the number of images displayed in a screen in said display control step and to increase a size of the displayed images when the scrolling speed is changed from low speed to high speed in said scrolling control step.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a control method for a display control apparatus that displays a list of images on a display unit, the control method comprising:

a display control step of controlling so that the images are displayed in a predetermined order on the display unit;

a scrolling control step of controlling so as to scroll the images displayed on the display unit; and

a control step of controlling so as to decrease the number of images displayed in a screen in said display control step and to increase a size of the displayed images when the scrolling speed is changed from low speed to high speed in said scrolling control step.