Patent ID: 8468467
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A display control apparatus for displaying images of a plurality of files containing at least image files of images captured by a digital camera as a list on a display unit, the apparatus comprising: a setup unit adapted to set a specific file type among a plurality of file types as a reference file type, wherein the setup unit sets, as the specific file type, at least one type of file from still image file, movie file, audio file, and settings file used during capture of the still image of a still image file; a reference file retrieval unit adapted to retrieve files of the type set by the setup unit from among the plurality of files as the reference files; an associated file retrieval unit adapted to retrieve, from among the plurality of files, first associated files having a predetermined association with a first reference file which is one of the reference files retrieved by the reference file retrieval unit and second associated files having a predetermined association with a second reference file which is one of the reference files retrieved by the reference file retrieval unit; and a control unit adapted to control the display unit such that, along with displaying a list of the images of a plurality of reference files including the first reference file and the second reference file of the same file type retrieved by the reference file retrieval unit arranged in a first direction alone a first axis of a two-dimensional plane, the images of the first associated files of a different file type are displayed as a list arranged in a second direction along a second axis of the two-dimensional plane and intersecting with the arrangement oriented in the first direction at the location of the image of the first reference file, the images of the second associated files are displayed as a list arranged in the second direction at the location of the image of the second reference file, wherein, if the setting of the reference file type is changed by the setup unit, the reference file retrieval unit retrieves reference files based on the file type changed by the setup unit and the associated file retrieval unit retrieves an associated file associated with said reference files again, and the control unit controls the display unit so as to update the list view of the image of the reference files and an image of the associated files, and wherein in a case that a first file type is set as the reference file type and a file of a second file type is displayed as the associated file, if the setting of the reference file type is changed from the first file type to the second file type, said associated file retrieval unit may retrieve the file of the first file type which has been set to the reference file type as the associated file and said control unit controls the display unit to display the file of the first file type retrieved as the associated file and displayed along the second axis of the two-dimensional plane.