Image pickup apparatus, navigation apparatus and IC card

• US 6,970,188 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2005
• Issued: 11/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Noguchi, Fujio, Haraguchi, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Ometz, David L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): JONES, HEATHER RAE
• Application Number:
  US11/082,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20050165541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 256 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.99
• US Class Current: 348/207.99
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3647 Guidance involving output of stored or live camera images or video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2158 using a detachable storage unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3277 The additional information being stored in the same storage device as the image data

Abstract

A navigation apparatus including: recording means for recording information about a route to a destination to a removable storage medium, and associated means for automatically relating the route information to image data and updating information about relations as management data in the removable storage medium. The navigation apparatus further includes outputting means for outputting the image data and the management data recorded in the removable storage medium in conjunction with the route information.

Claims

1. A navigation apparatus comprising:

recording means for recording route information about a route to a destination to a removable storage medium;

associating means for automatically relating said route information to image data and

updating the route information about route relations as management data in said removable storage medium; and

outputting means for outputting to a display said image data and said management data recorded in said removable storage medium in conjunction with said route information,

wherein said route relations indicate a number of captured images at a point along the route as the management data and the management data comprises a map of the route.