Display apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Imaging Corp.
InventorsKenji Matsumoto, Kuniko Morisaki, Yuka Ichikawa
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Abstract
A display apparatus includes an image recording section which records a plurality of image data items obtained on different dates and including image data items including a person, and a control section which displays one of the image data items selected from the image data items on a display section, retrieves another one of the image data items obtained on a date different from a date of the selected image data item and including the person, and displays the another one of the image data items on the display section.
Claims17
A display apparatus comprising:
- an image recording section which records a plurality of image data items;
- an event determination section which determines in what shooting opportunity a plurality of image data items are shot and acquired based on (1) information indicative of times and dates when the image data items are acquired and (2) whether the image data items include a person;
- a display section which displays a plurality of kinds of events as shooting opportunities;
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- a control section which, when a specific event is selected from the plurality of kinds of events, causes the display section to display a first image data item relating to the selected specific event, retrieves a second image data item including a person who is included in the first image data item from the image data items relating to unselected events, and causes the display section to display the retrieved second image data item together with the first image data item.
A method for retrieving and displaying similar image data items from a plurality of image data items, the method comprising:
- determining in what shooting opportunity a plurality of image data items are shot and acquired based on (1) information indicative of times and dates when the image data items are acquired and (2) whether the image data items include a person;
- displaying a plurality of kinds of events as shooting opportunities in a display section;
- when a specific event is selected from the plurality of kinds of events, displaying a first image data item relating to the selected specific event;
- retrieving a second image data item including a person who is included in the first image data item from the image data items relating to unselected events;
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- displaying the retrieved second image data item together with the first image data item.
A non-transitory recording medium which stores a computer-processable display program, comprising:
- determining in what shooting opportunity a plurality of image data items are shot and acquired based on (1) information indicative of times and dates when the image data times are acquired and (2) whether the image data items include a person;
- displaying a plurality of kinds of events as shooting opportunities in a display section;
- when a specific event is selected from the plurality of kinds of events, displaying a first image data item relating to the selected specific event;
- retrieving a second image data item including a person who is included in the first image data item from the image data items relating to unselected events;
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- displaying the retrieved second image data item together with the first image data item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.