Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium for electronic equipment including an electronic camera

Abstract

A personal computer to which electronic equipment, such as, an electronic camera is connected reads recording units that are recorded in the electronic camera and displays a table consisting of recording information. In recording information such as a main image, a sub image and sound in the electronic camera, data within the electronic camera are inter-related by an index which indicates that the information is part of a common recording unit. The date having the same index are output and displayed in a same thumbnail area. When a recording unit for deletion is designated from the table, check boxes are displayed according to information contained in the recording unit. For example, an “x” is displayed in the check box of the information to be deleted, indicating that the information is a target of deletion. After the selection of information is completed and an “OK” button is pressed, the personal computer sends a control command to the electronic camera and deletes the designated information. Rather than deletion, the designated information can be read from the electronic camera into the personal computer.

Description

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE [0001] The disclosures of the following Japanese priority applications are herein incorporated by reference: JP9-082865, filed Apr. 1, 1997; JP9-082867, filed Apr. 1, 1997; JP9-082866, filed Apr. 1, 1997; JP8-263031, filed Oct. 3, 1996; JP8-263033, filed Oct. 3, 1996; and JP8-263034; filed Oct. 3, 1996. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of Invention [0003] This invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a recording medium, and in particular relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a recording medium that execute a predetermined process on data that include main image data, sub image data and sound data, which are input from electronic equipment connected to the information processing apparatus. [0004] 2. Description of Related Art [0005] In a conventional electronic camera, the image of the object being shot is first digitized and then is data-compress...

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Benefits of technology

[0022] Considering the problems described above, an object of the invention is to make it possible to read information into a personal computer from an electronic camera, which is capable of recording a plurality of information besides the main image, and to display a table of the information in an easy to understand format.

[0028] According to this aspect of the invention, information relating to the types of data and index information describing the inter-relationships between data are input to the information processing apparatus. Information relating to the types of data being input are then correlated, based on the index information being input. Next, display information is generated from the information relating to the types of data that are correlated. Finally, the display information is output to a display device, enabling a speedy search and reproduction of the data recorded in the electronic camera.

[0035] According to this aspect of the invention, a designation of the recording unit and a designation of the type(s) of data to be processed are input, and the designated data contained in the recording unit is read from the electronic equipment (e.g., an electronic camera). Hence, only the desired data contained in the recording unit needs to be read from the electronic equipment, and may be output and recorded in a recording device. This enables the file size to be reduced. As a result, the recording capacity necessary for recording the file may be reduced.

Problems solved by technology

However, when reading the information recorded in the memory of the electronic camera, particularly when, for example, the information is displayed as a table, a problem occurs in that a proper display method has not been established.

Furthermore, problems arise when trying to delete some of the sub images. FIG. 16 shows a process in which information recorded in an electronic camera is deleted by means of an operation from the personal computer that is connected to the electronic camera.

Hence, a conventional process such as that described above has the problem that selected information contained in a recording unit cannot be deleted (while other non-selected information in that recording unit is not deleted) by means of an operation from the personal computer.

However, there is still the problem that selected information contained in the recording unit cannot be output and recorded on the hard disk drive.

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