Abstract: A method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus that performs a moving picture photographing mode and a reproduction mode. The method includes the operations of detecting face frames where faces of different persons exist in an operations of storing images of a series of frames in a moving picture file in the moving picture photographing mode, storing representative image frames including face frames selected from the detected face frames in the moving picture photographing mode, and displaying images of the stored representative image frames to indicate the moving picture file in the reproduction mode. The method can be performed by a controller of the digital image processing apparatus.

Abstract: An image management apparatus storing an input primary image and a replay-use reduced image corresponding to the input image comprises a first storage medium; a first database makeup unit for making up first database information for identifying a group to which the reduced image belongs when recording the primary image in the first storage medium; a second recording medium; a duplication unit for duplicating first database information and a reduced image recorded in the second recording medium into the first recording medium when the remainder capacity of, or the number of recorded files in, the second recording medium meets a predetermined condition; and a second database makeup unit for deleting first database information and a reduced image which are duplicated into the first recording medium from the second recording medium and also making up second database information for identifying the duplicated first database information in the second recording medium.

Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying acquired image data on a display part determines whether the acquired image data needs correcting, and when determining that some correction is necessary, causes the display part to show preset correction contents. When an operator selects one of the correction contents displayed, the image display apparatus corrects the acquired data based on the correction content selected.

Abstract: An image replay apparatus comprises an image selection unit for selecting an image; a control content instruction unit for instructing control content for an image; and a control file creation unit for creating a control file which describes control content instructed by the control content instruction unit for a plurality of images selected by the image selection unit and a list of the plurality of images described by one collective description format.

Abstract: When a CPU obtains a directive about an attribute of an image data file stored on a memory card, it is determined whether or not the image data file has an attribute related to the directive. Then, an album list file containing album lists including file names having common attributes relating to the directive in the image data files stored in the memory card is generated.

Abstract: In this photographing apparatus, when it is recognized that communication with an external device is possible, the operating mode is set to the communication mode, in which communication can be carried out with the external device. Once there is communication connection with the external device, signals to change the mode from the mode selecting device, which directs the operating mode of the photography apparatus, are ignored, and a shift from the communication mode to another mode is prohibited.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control system which can be easily operated even by a user inexperienced in handling external devices such as PCs, control devices and printers, and in which compatibility between these devices can be readily achieved. The control system includes: a first external device having a receiving unit for receiving a program, the first external device capable of operating based on the received program; a second external device capable of operating in association with a command, which is generated from the first external device on the basis of the program received by the first external device; and a control device. When it is determined that the first and second external devices are controllably connected, the control device selects a program to allow the first and second external devices to be operatively associated with each other and transmits the selected program to the first external device.