A display control device of the invention accepts a predetermined operation of switching an image to an image moved by a predetermined number of images among multiple images arranged in predetermined order. When a single-image that is not one of group images is displayed on a display unit of the display control device and single-images are arranged from the currently displayed image to an image moved by a predetermined number of images, the image moved by the predetermined number of images is acquired in accordance with a predetermined operation. When one of group images is displayed on the display unit and the group images are arranged within the predetermined number of images, a process of acquiring an image arranged beyond the group images without displaying images included in the group images is performed in accordance with a predetermined operation. Next, the acquired image is displayed on the display unit.

A display apparatus transmits a picture acquisition request for getting picture information to an external image apparatus connected through a predetermined interface to the display apparatus from the external image apparatus at predetermined intervals and gets a plurality of pieces of picture information from the external image apparatus to be displayed. The plurality of pictures may be switched at predetermined intervals, for example, to be displayed, so that the plurality of pictures may be displayed in a so-called slide show manner. A plurality of pictures for thumbnail may be produced from the plurality of pieces of picture information and be arranged together to be displayed in one picture screen of a display device.

A software application platform which provides a user with the ability to customize, via the uploading of digital photographs, the displayable area of a digital photo in an image gallery such that the photo subject for each digital photo is viewable within the image gallery on a graphical user interface is disclosed. Photos, each having a first aspect ratio, uploaded to an image gallery may be processed by the application such that the photo subject and the photo subject area of each digital photo is identified and positioned within an individual display window, each display window having a second aspect ratio, such that the display window displays the photo subject area in an image gallery on a graphical user interface. The application allows for customization to the look and feel of an image gallery while maintaining a display of the photo subject area.

An image editing apparatus allowing easy edition of page arrangement order on the preview display of page images includes a display device having a display screen and a preview display device configured to display image data in a scrollable manner. If any page is selected from the images of preview display, the selected page is displayed as a reduced image at a position different from the preview images. By drag-and-dropping the reduced image to an arrangement of preview images, the selected page moves to the drag-and-dropped position in the image data.

A display apparatus transmits a picture acquisition request for getting picture information to an external image apparatus connected through a predetermined interface to the display apparatus from the external image apparatus at predetermined intervals and gets a plurality of pieces of picture information from the external image apparatus to be displayed. The plurality of pictures may be switched at predetermined intervals, for example, to be displayed, so that the plurality of pictures may be displayed in a so-called slide show manner. A plurality of pictures for thumbnail may be produced from the plurality of pieces of picture information and be arranged together to be displayed in one picture screen of a display device.

An image that is based on an image with a first resolution is displayed on a selection screen, a display unit is caused to display a confirmation screen for confirming a processing target image selected on the selection screen, control is performed to generate an image with a second resolution higher than the first resolution and to display the generated image on the confirmation screen, and control is performed to extract an image having a first format and corresponding to the processing target image from a first image file, and to record the extracted image and the image with the second resolution, as a second image file.

A display control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires an image, a storage unit that stores plural images acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display control unit that controls each image stored in the storage unit to be displayed sequentially on a display device during a fixed time, and performs control of changing a time for which each of an acquired new image and the plural images stored in the storage unit is displayed on the display device according to a display priority of each image in a case where the acquisition unit acquires the image.

In a digital camera having a wireless communicator with a server, a storage controller treats full size image data and display size image data unequally if the full size image data has been already sent to the server. For example, the display size image data is not allowed to be replaced by new digital image data unless the digital camera is not in use over a prescribed time. Own image data and other's image data are treated equally. Image data received from outside and retrieved from inside memory are treated equally. Search key for own image data and related search keys existing in the outside are indicated in a comparable manner. The digital camera receives search key from neighboring advertiser to send it for Internet search of advertisement. Search key received from neighboring notable site is sent for Internet search of photographs of the notable site taken by others.

An information processing apparatus includes: a data sharing unit configured to cause an application selected as a data output destination to process data which is output by an application which is a data output source; a process-object-data generation control unit configured to generate process object data in one of a first format and a second format based on image data acquired by an image information interface from an image information source; and an application-information display unit configured to display identification images for identifying applications which the data sharing unit can select as the data output destination if the data sharing unit is to process either data of the first format or data of the second format.

A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design.