Electronic camera

• US 20090290047A1
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Ohmura, Akira, Sogoh, Chie
• Application Number:
  US12/385,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20090290047A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/240.99
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

An electronic camera includes: a display at which a photographic image and a map image are displayed; a display control unit that controls the display so as to display identifiers individually indicating photographing locations at which a plurality of photographic images were captured over the map image displayed at the display; and a zoom operation member that generates a zoom operation signal to be used to adjust a magnification factor for a photographic optical system, wherein: in response to the zoom operation signal output while the map image is displayed, the display control unit controls the display so as to display the map image with a scale thereof adjusted in correspondence to the zoom operation signal.

Claims

1. An electronic camera, comprising:

a display at which a photographic image and a map image are displayed;

a display control unit that controls the display so as to display identifiers individually indicating photographing locations at which a plurality of photographic images were captured over the map image displayed at the display; and

a zoom operation member that generates a zoom operation signal to be used to adjust a magnification factor for a photographic optical system, wherein;

in response to the zoom operation signal output while the map image is displayed, the display control unit controls the display so as to display the map image with a scale thereof adjusted in correspondence to the zoom operation signal.

2. An electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein:

in response to the zoom operation signal output while the photographic image, instead of the map image, is displayed, the display control unit controls the display so as to display the photographic image with a display size thereof adjusted in correspondence to the zoom operation signal.

3. An electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein:

in response to the zoom operation signal output while the photographic image is displayed together with the map image, the display control unit controls the display so as to display the photographic image with a display magnification factor thereof adjusted in correspondence to the zoom operation signal.

4. An electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein:

in response to the zoom operation signal output while the photographic image is displayed superimposed over the map image, the display control unit controls the display so as to display the photographic image with a display magnification factor thereof adjusted in correspondence to the zoom operation signal.

5. An electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein:

in response to the zoom operation signal output while the map image is displayed superimposed over the photographic image, the display control unit controls the display so as to display the map image with the scale thereof adjusted in correspondence to the zoom operation signal.

14. An electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein:

in response to a shutter release operation signal output while the map image is displayed in a reproduction mode, the display control unit switches to a photographing mode display in a photographing mode in correspondence to the shutter release operation signal.

15. An electronic camera according to claim 14, wherein:

once photographing processing executed in the photographing mode ends, the display control unit switches back to the map image display in the reproduction mode.

6. An electronic camera, comprising:

a display at which a photographic image and a map image are displayed;

a display control unit that controls the display so as to display identifiers individually indicating photographing locations at which a plurality of photographic images were captured over the map image displayed at the display; and

a direction operation member that generates an operation signal corresponding to an operating direction, wherein;

the display control unit executes control so as to display a pointer on the map image and move, in response to an operation signal output from the direction operation member while the pointer is displayed, a display position of the pointer in correspondence to the operation signal.

7. An electronic camera according to claim 6, wherein:

in response to an operation signal output from the direction operation member while the photographic image is displayed, the display control unit controls the display so as to display one of a photographic image in a succeeding frame and a photographic image in a preceding frame in place of the photographic image currently displayed in correspondence to the operation signal.

8. An electronic camera according to claim 7, wherein:

image data files corresponding to the photographic images include image data files containing photographing location position data and image data files without photographing location position data; and

the display control unit designates all the image data files as display targets.

9. An electronic camera according to claim 7, wherein:

image data files corresponding to the photographic images include image data files containing photographing location position data and image data files without photographing location position data; and

the display control unit designates only the image data files containing the photographing location position data as display targets.

10. An electronic camera according to claim 6, wherein:

the display control unit executes control so as to display reduced photographic images corresponding to a plurality of frames together with the map image and in response to an operation signal output from the direction operation member while the reduced photographic images are displayed, the display control unit controls the display so as to selectively bring up a photographic image in a succeeding frame or in a preceding frame to be displayed in correspondence to the operation signal.

11. An electronic camera according to claim 6, further comprising:

a rotation operation member that generates a rotation operation signal, wherein;

in response to an operation signal output from the rotation operation member while the pointer is displayed, the display control unit moves the display position of the pointer from one photographing locations to another photographing location in correspondence to the operation signal provided from the rotation operation member.

12. An electronic camera according to claim 11, wherein:

the display control unit moves the display position of the pointer from left to right on the map image.

13. An electronic camera according to claim 11, wherein:

the display control unit moves the display position of the pointer in an order matching a chronological order in which photographic images were captured at the photographing locations.