Patent ID: 7479984

Claim:
A browsing system comprising a digital camera and a printer, the printer providing to the digital camera an operation screen including an operation component for operating the printer as content to be browsed, and the digital camera comprising browsing means for browsing the content, a display screen for displaying the operation screen as the content to be browsed, and operation means for receiving an instruction to operate the printer via the operation screen, wherein the printer provides to the digital camera the operation screen comprising only an image including the operation component as the content to be browsed, wherein the operation component comprises at least one of: a button for selecting an operation command included in the operation screen, characters comprising the operation command, and a mark indicating an active area used in the case of a touch panel, wherein the printer operates based on the instruction received by the operation means of the digital camera; wherein the operation screen has an image size suitable for display on a virtual screen of a predetermined size and has layout of the operation component defined by absolute coordinates in the image size and the digital camera displays the operation screen on the display screen by reducing or enlarging the operation screen according to a size of the display screen; and wherein the operation screen comprises image data of JPEG format and the operation component is laid out in the operation screen by causing a boundary of the operation component in the operation screen to be located at a position corresponding to a multiple of the number of pixels in a compression block in the image data of the JPEG format.