Display control apparatus and display control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaru Hamada
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Abstract
A display control apparatus of the present invention displays a plurality of images on a display device capable of performing three-dimensional representation by laying out the images at a predetermined interval in a depth direction of three-dimensional representation, and includes a determination unit configured to determine a display interval between the plurality of images belonging to an identical group depending on the number of images contained in the group, a layout unit configured to lay out the plurality of images in a depth direction based on the display interval of each group determined by the determination unit, and a display control unit configured to display the images laid out by the layout unit on the display device.
Claims10
A display control apparatus for displaying a plurality of images classified into a plurality of groups on a display device capable of performing three-dimensional representation by laying out the plurality of images at a predetermined interval in a depth direction of three-dimensional representation, the display control apparatus comprising:
- a determination unit configured to determine, for each group, a display interval between the plurality of images belonging to an identical group depending on a number of images included in the identical group;
- a layout unit configured to lay out the plurality of images in a depth direction based on the display interval of each group determined by the determination unit, and to lay out the plurality of groups so as to be displayed on a same screen;
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- a display control unit configured to display the images laid out by the layout unit on the display device.
A display control method for displaying a plurality of images classified into a plurality of groups on a display device capable of performing three-dimensional representation by laying out the plurality of images at a predetermined interval in a depth direction of three-dimensional representation, the display control method comprising steps of:
- determining, for each group, a display interval between the plurality of images belonging to an identical group depending on a number of images included in the identical group;
- laying out the plurality of images in the depth direction based on the display interval of each group determined by the determining step, and laying out the plurality of groups so as to be displayed on a same screen;
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- displaying the images laid out by the laying-out process on the display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.