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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2008
Toru Kikuchi, Hino, JP;
Toru Kikuchi, Hino, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention maintains the response speed to users operations when operation-target contents are changed and improves the operability in data retrieval operations. An information processing apparatus for reading out content information from a storage unit accumulating the content information and for displaying the content information holds association information that associates each of extraction conditions used for reading out the content information from the storage unit with a corresponding one of memory areas. The apparatus reads out content information from the storage unit according to the extraction conditions and stores the content information in the corresponding memory areas. The apparatus specifies a memory area corresponding to an extraction condition specified by a user based on the association information, reads out the content information from the specified memory area, and displays an image based on the read out content information on a display.