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IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS THAT RECORDS CAPTURED IMAGE AND LOCATION INFORMATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH EACH OTHER

  • US 20120081574A1
  • Filed: 10/04/2011
  • Published: 04/05/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image capturing apparatus, comprising:

  • a location information acquiring unit that measures a current location and acquires location information;

    an image capturing unit that captures an image of a subject and outputs image data acquired as a result thereof;

    a storage control unit that stores the location information acquired by the location information acquiring unit at a time of image capturing by the image capturing unit in a predetermined storage area, in association with the image data outputted from the image capturing unit;

    a location prediction unit that predicts, in a case of failure to acquire location information at a time of image capturing by the image capturing unit, a range of locations predictable at the time of image capturing based on location information acquired by the location information acquiring unit earlier than the time of image capturing;

    a display control unit that displays a predictable range of locations on a display unit based on the location information acquired earlier than the time of image capturing and the range of locations at the time of image capturing predicted by the location prediction unit;

    a designation reception unit that receives a location designated by a user from within the predictable range of locations displayed on the display unit by the display control unit; and

    a captured location setting unit that sets location information of the location received by the designation reception unit as the location information at the time of image capturing.

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