Patent ID: 7733386

Claim:
A method of controlling a digital photographing device including a storage medium and a display unit, the storage medium storing at least one image file and the display unit displaying the at least one image file stored in the storage medium, the method comprising: defining a marked image file corresponding to the at least one image file displayed on the display unit when terminating a playback mode displaying the at least one image file on the display unit; determining if a photographing operation has been performed before the playback mode is restarted, including: displaying on the display unit a most recently photographed image file when restarting the playback mode if the photographing operation has been performed before the playback mode is restarted; and displaying on the display unit the marked image file when restarting the playback mode if the photographing operation has not been performed before the playback mode is restarted, wherein the displaying the marked image file on the display unit when restarting the playback mode if the photographing operation has not been performed before the playback mode is restarted comprises: determining if the marked image file is stored in the storage medium, including: displaying on the display unit the marked image file when the marked image file is stored in the storage medium; and displaying on the display unit the most recently photographed image stored in the storage medium when the marked image file is not stored in the storage medium.