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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2010
Sho Tanaka, Chiba, JP;
Osamu Date, Saitama, JP;
Katsumi Matsuno, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a picture display controlling apparatus capable of improving the user's ease of operation upon selecting picture data on a small-size screen of digital cameras or the like. Picture data items held in a data holding unit () are sorted into picture groups. The location of the picture data item most recently displayed from any of the picture groups is held as a picture resume pointer in a resume pointer holding unit (). With an operation input accepted from the user by an operation inputting device (), a display controlling unit () causes a displaying unit () to display the picture designated by the operation input while effecting transition from the current display status retained in a status holding unit (). If the operation input designates transition from a first picture group to a second picture group, the location of the picture data item currently displayed from the first picture group is placed into the resume pointer holding unit (), and the location of the picture data item to be displayed anew from the second picture group is retrieved from the resume pointer holding unit ().