US 8,013,923 B2 · Picture display controlling apparatus and picture display controlling method

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a picture display controlling apparatus capable of improving the user's ease of operation upon selecting picture data on a small-size screen of digital cameras or the like. Picture data items held in a data holding unit (310) are sorted into picture groups. The location of the picture data item most recently displayed from any of the picture groups is held as a picture resume pointer in a resume pointer holding unit (320). With an operation input accepted from the user by an operation inputting device (340), a display controlling unit (390) causes a displaying unit (350) to display the picture designated by the operation input while effecting transition from the current display status retained in a status holding unit (330). If the operation input designates transition from a first picture group to a second picture group, the location of the picture data item currently displayed from the first picture group is placed into the resume pointer holding unit (320), and the location of the picture data item to be displayed anew from the second picture group is retrieved from the resume pointer holding unit (320).

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Dependent claims

An image data display controlling apparatus comprising:

storing means for storing a plurality of image data items categorized by a plurality of image data groups using geographical location;
operation inputting means for accepting an operation input for designating any of said image data groups or any of the image data items in the designated image group;
display controlling means for controlling to display designated image data group or designated image data item in the designated image data group;
pointer holding means for holding a pointer information for identifying image data item associating with a image data group, the pointer information is used for controlling to display the image data item in the designated image data group when a transition of image data group is instructed by the operation inputting means;
wherein, if said operation input accepted by said operation inputting means designates transition from a first image data group to a second image data group, then said display controlling means causes said pointer holding means to hold the pointer information of predetermined image data item from said first image data group associating with said first image data group, while retrieving the pointer information for said second image data group from said pointer holding means in order to display anew the image data item pointed to by the retrieved pointer information.

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An image data display controlling method comprising the steps of:

storing a plurality of image data items categorized by a plurality of image data groups using geographical location;
accepting an operation input for designating any of said image data groups or any of the image data items in the designated image group;
controlling of a display of designated image data group or designated image data item in the designated image data group;
holding a pointer information for identifying image data item associating with a image data group, the pointer information is used for controlling to display the image data item in the designated image data group when a transition of image data group is instructed by the operation input;
wherein, if said operation input designates transition from a first image data group to a second image data group, then said controlling of a display causes said pointer information to hold information of predetermined image data item from said first image data group associating with said first image data group, while retrieving information for said second image data group from said pointer information in order to display anew the image data item pointed to by the retrieved information.

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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores program code executable for performing operations comprising:

storing a plurality of image data items categorized by a plurality of image data groups using geographical location;
accepting an operation input for designating any of said image data groups or any of the image data items in the designated image group;
controlling of a display of designated image data group or designated image data item in the designated image data group;
holding a pointer information for identifying image data item associating with a image data group, the pointer information is used for controlling to display the image data item in the designated image data group when a transition of image data group is instructed by the operation input;
wherein, if said operation input designates transition from a first image data group to a second image data group, then said controlling of a display causes said pointer information to hold information of predetermined image data item from said first image data group associating with said first image data group, while retrieving information for said second image data group from said pointer information in order to display anew the image data item pointed to by the retrieved information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Picture display controlling apparatus and picture display controlling method

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