Patent ID: 8472067

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a display for displaying images; an access unit constructed to access a detachable memory, the detachable memory storing a plurality of image files and a print instruction file, the print instruction file including file names for specifying image files to be printed by a printer; a reading unit constructed to read the plurality of image files and the print instruction file from the detachable memory; a display control unit constructed to display a summary of a plurality of images corresponding to the image files read by the reading unit from the detachable memory, on the display according to the print instruction file; an analyzing unit constructed to analyze the print instruction file read by the reading unit and to specify the image files to be printed by the printer; a user interface unit constructed to select an image file from the plurality of image files stored in the detachable memory, and to give or cancel an instruction to print the selected image file; and a processing unit constructed to manage the information in the print instruction file stored in the detachable memory, wherein when displaying the summary of the plurality of the images corresponding to the image files recorded in the detachable memory, the display control unit determines whether file names of the images being displayed are included in the print instruction file recorded in the detachable memory, displays images corresponding to the image files whose file names are included in the print instruction file with marks indicating images to be printed, and displays images corresponding to image files whose file names are not included in the print instruction file without adding marks, wherein the images with added marks and the images without added marks are displayed together as the summary of the plurality of images, wherein the user interface unit allows giving of the print instruction or cancelling of the print instruction in accordance with displaying a specified image with an added mark, and wherein in a case where the user interface unit gives the print instruction, the processing unit adds the file name of the image file which is specified to be printed into the print instruction file, and in a case where the user interface unit cancels the print instruction, the processing unit deletes the file name of the image file of which the print instruction is cancelled from the print instruction file, so that the user may give the print instruction or cancel the print instruction in accordance with confirming, by the print instruction file, whether or not an image has been specified to be printed.