Patent ID: 8274692
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling printing of at least one of a plurality of digital images, comprising: selecting either a first mode in which at least one print copy of at least one of the digital images is printed, or a second mode in which at least one and an identical number of print copies are printed for every one of the digital images, the identical number being user-selectable in the second mode, wherein, in a case where the first mode is selected, the method further comprises: displaying, in a display, zero or no numeric value as a value indicative of a number of print copies to be printed; judging whether a first instruction for designating a number of print copies to be printed for at least one of the digital images is received under a state where the first mode is selected; displaying an identifier associated with one of the digital images in the display: receiving a second instruction for executing the printing while the identifier associated with the one of the digital images is displayed in the display; printing a single print copy of the digital image whose identifier is displayed in the display, even though the zero or no numeric value is displayed in the display, in a case where the second instruction is received and the first instruction is not received; and printing at least one and the designated number of print copies for the at least one of the digital images for which a number of print copies to be printed has been designated in the first instruction in a case where the second instruction is received after the first instruction is received; wherein, in the case where the second instruction is received after the first instruction is received in the first mode, the one of the digital images whose identifier is displayed in the display is not printed in a case where the number of print copies designated by the first instruction for the one of the digital images is zero or no numeric value, and the designated number of print copies for the one of the digital images whose identifier is displayed in the display is printed in a case where the number of print copies designated by the first instruction for the one of the digital images is one or more, and wherein the identifier is a downsized image of an associated one of the digital images.