Patent ID: 8144136

Claim:
A display control apparatus, comprising: a storage device configured to store a plurality of images; a display configured to display one of a thumbnail screen and a list screen at a time, where the thumbnail screen displays the images in the form of thumbnails in one or more pages, and the list screen displays the images in the form of entries containing property information of the images in one or more pages, a maximum number of images that can be displayed on each page of the thumbnail screen being different from a maximum number of images that can be displayed on each page of the list screen; and a controller configured to cause the display to switch between the thumbnail screen and the list screen according to a user instruction, wherein when the display displays a current page of a first screen which firstly lists a selected one of the images and shows a total page number indicating a total number of the one or more pages of the first screen, the first screen being one of the thumbnail screen and the list screen, and the controller receives a user instruction for switching from the first screen to a second screen, the second screen being the other one of the thumbnail screen and the list screen, the controller calculates a total number of the one or more pages of the second screen using information regarding the selected image that is firstly listed on the current page of the first screen and the maximum number of images that can be displayed on each page of the second screen to obtain a total page number of the second screen, and the display displays a current page of the second screen, where the current page of the second screen firstly lists the selected image that is firstly listed on the current page of the first screen and shows the calculated total page number of the second screen.