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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2011
Tomonori Misawa, Tokyo, JP;
Tomonori Misawa, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an electronic apparatus including: a storage to classify images into each of groups, and to store the classified images; an output unit to output, as a representative image of the group, a thumbnail image of each of the images, which are extracted one by one for each of the groups from the images classified into the groups; an operation detecting unit to detect a predetermined operation by the user with respect to the output representative image; and a controller to control, when the predetermined operation is detected, the output unit to output the thumbnail images of the images classified into the group in which the representative image is extracted, together with the output representative image, the thumbnail images being arranged in a predetermined direction, and to scroll the thumbnail images in the predetermined direction.