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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2008
Kazuhiro Akaike, Minato-ku, JP;
Atsushi Okada, Minato-ku, JP;
Hideyuki Tanaka, Saitama, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display control apparatus which realizes display capable of providing an overview of a group of thumbnail images and which includes an object controller () for performing control to, when a viewer () allocates images to be displayed to a predetermined number of image-frame objects (), in the case where the number of the images to be allocated to the individual image-frame objects exceeds the number of the image-frame objects (), allocate a plurality of images to at least some of the image-frame objects () and, when the plurality of images are allocated to each image-frame object (), display all the images to be displayed within a certain time by switching the images to be displayed at predetermined time intervals.