STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20100289739A1
• Filed: 09/10/2009
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Fujino, Yosuke, Tamura, Hiroaki, Nakao, Koichi, Oiwa, Ryota, Tamiya, Fumihiko, Koganezawa, Nobuhito
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,993 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods

Abstract

A game apparatus saves, in accordance with an instruction of a user, a photographing image taken by an inward camera or an outward camera, or a handwriting image of a handwritten note inputted using a touch panel. Moreover, in accordance with an instruction of the user, position information is saved together with the photographing image or the handwriting image. That is, a photographing place or a creation place of the handwritten note is registered on a map. When the photographing image or the handwriting image is reproduced, an image of a landmark set near a position on the map indicated by the position information is reproduced before the photographing image or the handwritten image.

Claims

1. A storage medium storing an information processing program of an information processing apparatus having a display means, an operation means, and a storage means storing a plurality of pieces of landmark information and position information of the respective plurality of pieces of landmark information,

said information processing program causing a computer of said information processing apparatus to function as following means:

an image data taking-in means for taking in image data in accordance with an operation of said operation means;

a position information setting means for setting position information of said image data taken in by said image data taking-in means;

a landmark information selecting means for selecting said landmark information relating to the relevant image data based on the position information of said image data and the position information of said respective pieces of landmark information; and

a display control means for sequentially displaying said image data and the landmark information selected by said landmark information selecting means in a predetermined order on said display means.

2. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein said landmark information selecting means selects the relevant landmark information when a first position indicated by the position information of said image data and a second position indicated by the position information of said landmark information are within a predetermined range.

3. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 2, wherein said landmark information selecting means selects said landmark information having the position information in which a distance between said first position and said second position is the shortest.

4. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein said display control means displays an image corresponding to said image data after displaying said landmark information.

5. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 4, wherein when it has already been determined that a first position indicated by position information of another image data and a second position indicated by the position information of said landmark information are within a predetermined range, said display control means displays the image corresponding to said image data after displaying the relevant landmark information.

6. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 4, wherein when it has already been determined that a first position indicated by position information of another image data and a second position indicated by the position information of said landmark information are within a predetermined range, said display control means displays the image corresponding to said image data after displaying an image corresponding to the relevant another image data.

7. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein:

said landmark information selecting means includes a first selection means for selecting the relevant landmark information when a first position indicated by the position information of said image data and a second position indicated by the position information of said landmark information are within a predetermined range, and a second selection means for selecting the relevant landmark information when the first position indicated by the position information of said image data and the second position indicated by the position information of said landmark information are out of the predetermined range; and

said display control means displays the landmark information selected by said first selection means before said image data, and the landmark information selected by said second selection means after said image data.

8. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said computer is further caused to function as a visit setting means for setting whether or not each landmark was visited in accordance with an operation of said operation means;

and

said landmark information selecting means selects the landmark information of the landmark with the visit to the relevant landmark set by said visit setting means.

9. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein:

said computer is further caused to function as a time-and-date information setting means for setting time and date information for the image data taken in by said image data taking-in means; and

said display control means displays an image corresponding to said image data and said landmark information in an order following said time and date information.

10. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein:

said computer is further caused to function as a map display control means for causing said display means to display a map; and

said position information setting means sets a position on said map instructed in accordance with an operation of said operation means, as the position information of said image data.

11. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein:

said information processing apparatus further comprises an imaging means; and

said image data taking-in means takes in image data imaged by said imaging means.

12. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein:

said computer is further caused to function as a creation means for creating a letter, graphic, or symbol in accordance with an operation of said operation means; and

said image data taking-in means takes in image data of the letter, graphic or symbol created by said creation means.

13. An information processing apparatus having a display means, an operation means, and a storage means storing a plurality of pieces of landmark information and position information of the respective plurality of pieces of landmark information, the information processing apparatus comprising:

an image data taking-in means for taking in image data in accordance with an operation of said operation means;

a position information setting means for setting position information of said image data taken in by said image data taking-in means;

a landmark information selecting means for selecting said landmark information relating to the relevant image data based on the position information of said image data and the position information of said respective pieces of landmark information; and

a display control means for sequentially displaying said image data and the landmark information selected by said landmark information selecting means in a predetermined order on said display means.

14. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus having a display means, an operation means, and a storage means storing a plurality of pieces of landmark information and position information of the respective plurality of pieces of landmark information, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) taking in image data in accordance with an operation of said operation means;

(b) setting position information of said image data taken in by said step (a);

(c) selecting said landmark information relating to the relevant image data based on the position information of said image data and the position information of said respective pieces of landmark information; and

(d) sequentially displaying said image data and the landmark information selected by said step (c) in a predetermined order on said display means.