Directory search method, directory search apparatus, program for implementing and operating the same, and memory medium
OwnerMayumi Takedainventor
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Abstract
There are a step of specifying a directory structure comprising a plurality of hierarchy levels and a step of finding out a specified directory structure from a memory medium loaded with data by a desired directory. This arrangement allows the file storing the image signal to be found out efficiently when an image signal is stored in the file of a directory structure having a predetermined name, even if countless directories have been created in a high-volume memory medium.
Claims18
A directory searching method of searching a prescribed directory contained in a directory structure which is stored in a hierarchical structure including plural directory structures in a storage medium and includes at least two directories of a directory having a first name and a directory having a second name;
- comprising steps of;
- inputting the first name and the second name with a inputting device,
- searching the plural directory structures based on the first name so as to extract a directory structure having the first name,
- searching the extracted directory structure based on the second name so as to extract a directory having the second name, and
- obtaining the prescribed directory contained in the extracted directory.
A directory searching apparatus of searching a prescribed directory contained in a directory structure which is stored in a hierarchical structure including plural directory structures in a storage medium and includes at least two directories of a directory having a first name and a directory having a second name;
- comprising of;
- an inputting device to input the first name and the second name with a inputting device,
- a searching device of searching the plural directory structures based on the first name so as to extract a directory structure having the first name,
- a searching device of searching the extracted directory structure based on the second name so as to extract a directory having the second name, and
- a obtaining device to obtain the prescribed directory contained in the extracted directory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.