IMAGING DEVICE, INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM

• US 20110193985A1
• Filed: 02/04/2011
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: INOUE, Hideya
• Granted Patent: US 9,420,251 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/344 involving models
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00323 with a measuring, monitoring or signaling apparatus, e.g. for transmitting measured information to a central location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32144 embedded in the image data, i.e. enclosed or integrated in the image, e.g. watermark, super-imposed logo or stamp
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

The imaging device of the invention includes an imaging portion that images a subject; a positional information acquisition portion that acquires positional information of an imaging position; a control portion which acquires information on the subject based on the positional information, and displays image data of the subject and the information on the subject on a display portion; and a hold control portion that outputs a hold control signal, which holds the image data of the subject and the information on the subject, to the control portion.

Claims

1. An imaging device comprising:

an imaging portion that images a subject;

a positional information acquisition portion that acquires positional information of an imaging position;

a control portion which acquires information on the subject based on the positional information, and displays image data of the subject and the information on the subject on a display portion; and

a hold control portion that outputs a hold control signal, which holds the image data of the subject and the information on the subject, to the control portion.

2. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the control portion displays image data of the subject and the information on the subject on a display portion, based on the hold control signal received from the hold control portion.

3. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the control portion can switch the display and the non-display of information on the subject relative to the display portion.

4. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the hold control signal is received while imaging the subject, the control portion displays the image data of the held subject and the information on the subject on the display portion.

5. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the control portion transmits the information for the subject held on the basis of the hold control signal and the image data of the subject to another terminal.

6. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the information for the subject is augmented reality information.

7. An information acquisition system comprising:

an imaging device and an information retrieval system;

wherein the imaging device is the imaging device according to claim 1.

15. A program for allowing a computer to execute the function of the imaging device according to claim 1 comprising:

a step of inputting positional information of a position having imaged a subject;

a step of acquiring information for the subject based on the positional information;

a step of displaying an image data of the subject and the information for the subject on a display portion; and

a step of outputting a control signal holding the image data of the subject and the information for the subject to the control portion.

17. The imaging device according to claim 2,

wherein, when the hold control signal is received while imaging the subject, the control portion displays the image data of the held subject and the information on the subject on the display portion.

8. An imaging device comprising:

a latitude and longitude detection portion that detects latitude and longitude information of one'"'"'s position;

an azimuthal angle detection portion which detects an azimuthal angle by which image data is imaged;

a control portion which acquires augmented reality information added to a structure situated in a latitude and longitude range of the azimuthal angle direction in the latitude and longitude information by the latitude and longitude information and the azimuthal angle, thereby displaying the augmented reality information on a display portion; and

a hold control portion which outputs the hold control signal, which stores the augmented reality information and the image data in a memory portion, to the control portion upon detecting an action of storing the augmented reality information in the memory portion.

9. The imaging device according to claim 8,

wherein, if the hold control signal is input from the hold control portion, when the hold control signal is input, the control portion stores the latitude and longitude information and the azimuthal angle of one'"'"'s position, in imaging the image data, on the memory portion by adding an image identification information that identifies the image data.

10. The imaging device according to claim 8,

wherein, if the hold control signal is input from the hold control portion, when the hold control signal is input, the control portion stores the image data displayed on the display portion and the augmented reality information corresponding to the image data on the memory portion by adding an image identification information that identifies the image data.

11. The imaging device according to claim 8,

wherein the memory portion includes image identification information that identifies the image data for each image data, structure identification information that identifies a structure in the image data, structure information of a structure shown by the structure identification information, and a user ID added to the image identification information, for each image data.

12. The imaging device according to claim 8,

wherein the control portion reads the augmented reality information and the image data from the memory portion and displays the same on the display portion.

13. The imaging device according to claim 8,

wherein the control portion transmits the augmented reality information added in an imaging state to an information retrieval system.

16. A program for allowing a computer to execute the function of the imaging device according to any one of claim 8 comprising:

a step of inputting latitude and longitude information of one'"'"'s position which is detected by a latitude and longitude detection portion;

a step of inputting an azimuthal angle imaging image data which is detected by an azimuthal angle detection portion;

a step of acquiring augmented reality information added to a structure situated in a latitude and longitude range of the azimuthal angle direction in the latitude and longitude information by the latitude and longitude information and the azimuthal angle, thereby displaying the same on a display portion; and

a step of outputting a hold control signal, which stores the augmented reality information and the image data in the memory portion, to the control portion upon detecting an action of storing the augmented reality information in a memory portion.

14. An information acquisition system which includes an imaging device and an information retrieval system, wherein the information retrieval system extracts a structure situated in a latitude and longitude range of a direction of the azimuthal angle in the latitude and longitude information by the latitude and longitude information and the azimuthal angle transmitted from the imaging device, thereby transmits the information added to the extracted structure to the imaging device,

wherein the imaging device comprising:

a latitude and longitude detection portion that detects latitude and longitude information of one'"'"'s position;

an azimuthal angle detection portion which detects an azimuthal angle by which image data is imaged;

a control portion that acquires augmented reality information added to a structure situated in a latitude and longitude range of the direction of the azimuthal angle in the latitude and longitude information by the latitude and longitude information and the azimuthal angle, thereby displays the same on a display portion; and

a hold control portion that outputs the hold control signal, which stores the augmented reality information and the image data in a memory portion, to the control portion upon detecting an action of storing the augmented reality information in the memory portion, and

wherein the information retrieval system includes;

a database in which a map data, in which a structure identification number of a structure corresponds to latitude and longitude information of the structure, and a structure table, in which the structure identification number corresponds to the augmented reality information of the structure shown by the structure identification number, are stored; and

an information retrieval server which retrieves the structure identification number of the structure situated in the latitude and longitude range of the direction of the azimuthal angle in the latitude and longitude information from the map data by the latitude and longitude information and the azimuthal angle transmitted from the imaging device, reads the augmented reality information added to the structure shown by the structure identification number from the structure table by the retrieved structure identification number, and transmits the augmented reality information of the read structure to the imaging device.