Patent ID: 6993626
Filing Date: 2006-01-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus for reading data from a detachable predetermined recording medium, comprising: loading detection means for detecting the loading of a recording medium into said information processing apparatus, wherein said recording medium stores data including one or more images, and each of said one or more images has a type; starting means for starting, in response to the loading of said recording medium detected by said loading detection means, a resident application program for processing said data stored on said recording medium, wherein said resident application program is already stored in said information processing apparatus before said recording medium is loaded into said information processing apparatus; unloading detection means for detecting the unloading of said recording medium from said information processing apparatus; and ending means for ending, in response to the unloading of said recording medium detected by said unloading detection means, said resident application program; wherein said resident application program reads one or more of said one or more images from said recording medium and generates a thumbnail image for said one or more read images according to the type of said one or more read images so that said thumbnail image presents a small image representation specific to said one or more read images, and wherein said one or more read images includes one or more moving images and still images so that said thumbnail image for said one or more moving images is generated from a first image and said thumbnail image for said one or more still images is generated from thumbnail data in a header of said one or more still images.