Abstract: A first-middle screen obtained by deleting images of clothes outside a selection area and a second-middle screen on which an interval between images of clothes in the selection area is enlarge-displayed in a state where a relative positional relationship therebetween is secured on a first map are inserted between a screen before enlargement and a screen after enlargement on which the images of the clothes in the selection area and the images of the clothes in the selection area that are in a non-display state on the screen before enlargement are displayed.

Abstract: A first-middle screen obtained by deleting images of clothes outside a selection area and a second-middle screen on which an interval between images of clothes in the selection area is enlarge-displayed in a state where a relative positional relationship therebetween is secured on a first map are inserted between a screen before enlargement and a screen after enlargement on which the images of the clothes in the selection area and the images of the clothes in the selection area that are in a non-display state on the screen before enlargement are displayed.

Abstract: A tablet terminal comprises a touch panel which functions as a display for displaying a screen on a front face of a main body, and a controller which detects a contact to a touch sensor using a contact detection signal which the touch sensor outputs and executes control assigned to a point where the contact is detected after the point where the contact is detected is changed to a non-contact state.

Abstract: An object is to display and erase an image on a display medium both conveniently and safely. Data is written to electronic paper by placing the electronic paper is on a rewriting device together with an IC card. When, in this state, the IC card is then removed, the displayed image is retained by the electronic paper until a predetermined condition is fulfilled. Writing of annotations using an electronic pen is possible until the predetermined condition is fulfilled, and the image displayed on the electronic paper by the writing device is erased when the predetermined condition is fulfilled.

Abstract: Keywords are appended to an image portion in one portion of a color image. In order to achieve this, a color bar is displayed on the color image, a color is designated by the position of a mark in the color bar, an image portion having the designated color is detected, a keyword table having keywords corresponding to the detected image portion is displayed, a desired keyword is selected from the displayed keyword table, and characters representing the selected keyword are displayed. Items of data representing the detected image portion, data representing the designated color and data representing the keyword are stored as metainformation in the image file of the color image.

Abstract: Images can be laid out easily without a template. Reference areas are set in a background area, and the images are laid out by being inscribed therein. In the case where the image laid out in one of the reference areas has high priority, a similar area is generated from the reference areas, and the image is enlarged to be inscribed in the similar area.

Abstract: A workspace 31 is divided into three divisions (31a to 31c) arranged side by side on the same screen (12a). The first division (31a) is for ordering photographic print, the second division (31b) is for pending, and the third division (31c) is for excluding images from the printing. The user allocates one thumbnail to the first division when the user decides to print the image corresponding to the one thumbnail. The user allocates one thumbnail to the third division when the user decides not to print the image corresponding to the one thumbnail. When the user cannot decide whether to print the image corresponding to one thumbnail, the user allocates the one thumbnail to the second division. Image data represented by those thumbnails allocated to the first division is sent to an external device for printing.

Abstract: An image reproducing device that displays frames or index images of still images and moving images so that a user can distinguish the still images from the moving images when looking at them in one-frame reproducing or index reproducing. The display style of the still images is different from that of frames of the moving images For example, each still image has a white frame like a picture, and a frame of each moving image has perforations like a movie film. Therefore, the user can distinguish the still images from the moving images when looking at them.

Abstract: When image data is sent and received between cameras via communication, it is possible for the user to ascertain the images that are being communicated. Thumbnail image data for transfer purposes is transmitted from a transmit-side camera to a receive-side camera. Main (full-size) image data is thenceforth transmitted from the transmit-side camera to the receive-side camera. When the main image data is sent and received, display screens on respective ones of the cameras display an image in which a transfer thumbnail image represented by transfer thumbnail image data moves from the display screen on the transmitting side to the display screen on the receiving side.

Abstract: A number of images are grouped and recorded in an image database. A main image is displayed in a main display area. Images having both “PORTRAIT” and “BEACH” photographic scenes, which have been assigned to the main image, assigned thereto are found in groups different from the group to which the main image belongs. The images found are displayed in an auxiliary display area as related images.

Abstract: A digital camera according to the invention comprises a power switch, lenses, an optical finder, a shutter button, an auxiliary light emitting section, a recording media slot, an image monitor, and touch pads. The touch pads form part of the touch input section for selecting and inputting the items and selections displayed on the image monitor, part the touch input section for operating the display contents of an image displayed on the image monitor, and part of the touch input section for controlling the shooting magnification used in shooting an image. Such input operations are performed by way of a contact position signal of the touch pads as well as a movement in the touch state.

Abstract: It is so arranged that the user of a device such as a digital still camera can ascertain the transfer history of an image file that has been transferred to the camera. An image file is obtained by “Mr. A” shooting a subject using a digital still camera, whereupon information concerning the owner of the camera is read and “Mr. A” is written to a photographer/transferor history table as the photographer of the image file. The table is placed in the header recording area of the image file. If the image file is transferred to a “Miss B”, the table is read out of the image file and “Miss B” is written to the table as the transferor of the image file. The table thus updated is placed in the header recording area of the image file. One can determine the photographer and transferor of the image file by referring to the table.

Abstract: Images can be laid out easily without a template. Reference areas are set in a background area, and the images are laid out by being inscribed therein. In the case where the image laid out in one of the reference areas has high priority, a similar area is generated from the reference areas, and the image is enlarged to be inscribed in the similar area.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises: a shooting requesting unit which receives an input indicating that shooting request to a person is made; and a shooting request mode setting unit which sets an angle of view of the image data displayed by the display unit to a predetermined range smaller than an angle of view captured by the imaging unit in response to the input to the shooting requesting unit. The display unit displays a post-view image which is an image data decoded from compressed coded image data in the recording unit within a range of the displayed angle of view set by the shooting request mode setting unit. Thus, the image actually recorded and displayed in the reproducing mode includes larger region of the post-view image. Therefore, the cutoff of heads and legs, etc. of an object at a peripheral region of the image can be compensated.

Abstract: An input unit of the present invention includes: an instruction input unit including a display part, a posture of the instruction input unit capable of being displaced by a pressure applied to a first face thereof including a display screen of the display part; a switch pressing unit provided in the vicinity of an outer periphery of a face other than the first face of the instruction input unit, the switch pressing unit being capable of being displaced in accordance with the displacement of the instruction input unit; and a switch part arranged to work by being pressed by the switch pressing unit.

Abstract: A number of images are grouped and recorded in an image database. A main image is displayed in a main display area. Images having both “PORTRAIT” and “BEACH” photographic scenes, which have been assigned to the main image, assigned thereto are found in groups different from the group to which the main image belongs. The images found are displayed in an auxiliary display area as related images.

Abstract: Keywords are appended to an image portion in one portion of a color image. In order to achieve this, a color bar is displayed on the color image, a color is designated by the position of a mark in the color bar, an image portion having the designated color is detected, a keyword table having keywords corresponding to the detected image portion is displayed, a desired keyword is selected from the displayed keyword table, and characters representing the selected keyword are displayed. Items of data representing the detected image portion, data representing the designated color and data representing the keyword are stored as metainformation in the image file of the color image.

Abstract: When image data is sent and received between cameras via communication, it is possible for the user to ascertain the images that are being communicated. Thumbnail image data for transfer purposes is transmitted from a transmit-side camera to a receive-side camera. Main (full-size) image data is thenceforth transmitted from the transmit-side camera to the receive-side camera. When the main image data is sent and received, display screens on respective ones of the cameras display an image in which a transfer thumbnail image represented by transfer thumbnail image data moves from the display screen on the transmitting side to the display screen on the receiving side.

Abstract: It is so arranged that the user of a device such as a digital still camera can ascertain the transfer history of an image file that has been transferred to the camera. An image file is obtained by “Mr. A” shooting a subject using a digital still camera, whereupon information concerning the owner of the camera is read and “Mr. A” is written to a photographer/transferor history table as the photographer of the image file. The table is placed in the header recording area of the image file. If the image file is transferred to a “Miss B”, the table is read out of the image file and “Miss B” is written to the table as the transferor of the image file. The table thus updated is placed in the header recording area of the image file. One can determine the photographer and transferor of the image file by referring to the table.