MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR IMAGE MANAGEMENT AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20120108290A1
• Filed: 10/05/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: AKAMA, Katsuaki, SHINOZAWA, Akira
• Application Number:
  US13/253,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20120108290A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/587 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information

Abstract

A mobile electronic apparatus includes a storage unit which stores an image shot by an image shooting unit, a region information obtaining unit which obtains region information indicating in which one of a plurality of regions the mobile electronic apparatus is located, a move identifying unit which identifies whether the mobile electronic apparatus moved from a first region to a second region on the basis of the region information obtained by the region information obtaining unit and a connection unit which connects, upon the move identifying unit identifying that the mobile electronic apparatus moved from the first region to the second region, an image stored in the storage unit after the mobile electronic apparatus moved from another region to the first region with a region identifier of the first region.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic apparatus comprising:

a storage unit which stores an image shot by an image shooting unit;

a region information obtaining unit which obtains region information indicating in which one of a plurality of regions the mobile electronic apparatus is located;

a move identifying unit which identifies whether the mobile electronic apparatus moved from a first region to a second region on the basis of the region information obtained by the region information obtaining unit; and

a connection unit which connects, upon the move identifying unit identifying that the mobile electronic apparatus moved from the first region to the second region, an image stored in the storage unit after the mobile electronic apparatus moved from another region to the first region with a region identifier of the first region.

2. The mobile electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a wireless control unit which receives radio waves from a plurality of wireless base stations so as to detect an identifier of one of the wireless base stations covering the mobile electronic apparatus in service coverage; and

a region-base station conversion table in which a plurality of region identifiers is each connected with a plurality of wireless base station identifiers, wherein

the region information obtaining unit obtains region information of the mobile electronic apparatus on the basis of the identifier of the wireless base station detected by the wireless control unit and the region-base station conversion table.

3. The mobile electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a new shot table in which an identifier of an image shot by the image shooting unit is stored, wherein

upon the move identifying unit identifying that the mobile electronic apparatus moved from the first region to the second region, the connection unit connects an identifier of an image stored in the new shot table with a region identifier of the first region so as to store the connected identifier and the region identifier in an image search table, and the connection unit removes the identifier of the image in the new shot table.

4. A method for image management to be carried out by a mobile electronic apparatus having a storage unit which stores an image shot by an image shooting unit, the method carried out by the mobile electronic apparatus comprising:

obtaining region information indicating in which one of a plurality of regions the mobile electronic apparatus is located;

identifying whether the mobile electronic apparatus moved from a first region to a second region on the basis of the obtained region information; and

connecting, upon a fact that the mobile electronic apparatus moved from the first region to the second region, an image stored in the storage unit after the mobile electronic apparatus moved from another region to the first region with a region identifier of the first region.

5. A computer-readable storage medium in which an image management program for running a process by means of a mobile electronic apparatus having a storage unit which stores an image shot by an image shooting unit, the process comprising:

obtaining region information indicating in which one of a plurality of regions the mobile electronic apparatus is located;

identifying whether the mobile electronic apparatus moved from a first region to a second region on the basis of the obtained region information; and

connecting, upon a fact that the mobile electronic apparatus moved from the first region to the second region, an image stored in the storage unit after the mobile electronic apparatus moved from another region to the first region with a region identifier of the first region.