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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2007
Seiji Aiso, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiji Aiso, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus that selects and prints images represented by candidate image data files to be output among a plurality of image data files includes an image data file acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of image data files, each having image data regarding an image and additional data regarding at least a photographing condition when the image was taken, and a candidate file selection unit that selects image data files, which have the additional data, not the image data, satisfying one of one or more predetermined selection conditions, among the plurality of image data files as the candidate image data files to be output, and a printing unit that performs printing of images represented by at least some of the candidate image data files.