Storage medium storing information processing program, information processing apparatus and information processing method

• US 8,489,993 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2009
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Tamura, Hiroaki, Koganezawa, Nobuhito, Oiwa, Ryota, Tamiya, Fumihiko, Nakao, Koichi, Fujino, Yosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOI, DAVID E
• Application Number:
  US12/557,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20100289739A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,405 Days
• Field of Search: 715/730, 345/156
• US Class Current: 715/730
• 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 non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing an information processing program of an information processing apparatus that includes a display device, an input device, a processing system that includes at least one processor, and a storage system configured to store a plurality of pieces of landmark information, each one of the plurality of pieces of landmark information having associated landmark position information, said information processing program comprising instructions configured to:

receive first image data in accordance with an operation performed via the input device, the first image data among a plurality of image data;

set position information in accordance with the received first image data, where each one of the plurality of image data is associated with set position information;

select relevant landmark information out of the plurality of pieces of landmark information based on the set position information of said received first image data and the associated landmark position of the selected relevant landmark information;

determine a display order for the plurality of image data based on comparisons of landmark position information of the plurality of pieces of landmark information to the set position information associated with each one of the plurality of image data; and

sequentially display, to the display device, the plurality of image data and at least the selected landmark information in accordance with the determined display order.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the set position information of said received first image data is associated with a first position, and

wherein the selected relevant landmark information is selected when the first position is within a distance range of the associated landmark position of the selected relevant landmark information.

3. The medium of claim 2, wherein a distance difference between the first position and associated landmark position of the selected relevant landmark information is shorter than other distance differences.

4. The medium of claim 1, wherein an image corresponding to said image data is displayed after said selected landmark information.

5. The medium of claim 4, wherein the image is displayed after the selected landmark information is displayed when a first position indicated by the position information of another image data and a second position indicated by the associated landmark position of the landmark information are within a predetermined range.

6. The medium of claim 4, wherein the image corresponding to said image data is displayed after displaying an image corresponding to the relevant another image data when a first position indicated by the position information of another image data and a second position indicated by the associated landmark position of the landmark information are within a range.

7. The medium of claim 1, wherein:

the determined display order includes the display of the selected relevant landmark information before the first image data when a first position indicated by the position information of said first image data and a second position indicated by the associated landmark position information of said landmark information are within a range, and

the determined display order includes the display of the selected relevant landmark information after the first image data when the first position and the second position are out of the range.

8. The medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to:

set whether or not each landmark was visited in accordance with an operation performed via the input device; and

the selected landmark information is further based on whether or not the landmark was visited.

9. The medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to:

set time and date information for the first image data, wherein the determined display order is further based on following said time and date information; and

display an image corresponding to said first image data and said selected relevant landmark information in the determined display order.

10. The medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to:

display a map; and

set a position on said map based on an input operation from the input device, where the position on the map is the set position information of said first image data.

11. Claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus further includes an imager and the received first image data is received in accordance with an image taken by the imager.

12. The medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to:

create a letter, graphic, and/or symbol in accordance with an operation of the input device; and

receive other image data in accordance with the operation.

13. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an input device configured to receive input from a user;

an imager configured to obtain first image data in accordance with an operation of an input device; and

a processing system including at least one processor, the processing system configured to;

associate positional information with the obtained first image data;

select at least one relevant landmark based on the positional information associated with the first image data and positional information of a plurality of potential landmarks;

determine a display order for a plurality of image data, which includes the first image data, based on a comparison of positional information of the plurality of potential landmarks to associated positional information of each one of the plurality of image data; and

output, for display on a display device, the plurality of image data and the selected at least one relevant landmark based on the determined display order.

14. A computer-implemented information processing method for organizing images and landmark information performed using at least one processor, the method comprising:

obtaining a plurality of images that includes a first image, where each one of the plurality of images is associated with respective position information;

selecting, using the at least one processor, relevant landmark information for the first image based on landmark positional information of the relevant landmark information and the set position information for at least the first image, the relevant landmark information among a plurality of landmark information;

comparing, using the at least one processor, the respective position information of the plurality of images to the landmark positional information of the plurality of landmark information;

determining, using the at least one processor, a display order based on the compared respective position information of the plurality of images to the landmark positional information; and

outputting at least said first image data and the selected relevant landmark information based on the determined display order.

15. A computing system for presenting images to a user, the system comprising:

an input device configured to receive user input from a user;

a non-transitory storage system configured to store;

a plurality of informational landmark content, where each one of the plurality is associated with a respective landmark;

landmark positional information associated with each one of the plurality of informational landmark content; and

a plurality of images; and

a processing system that includes at least one processor, the processing system configured to;

receive a first image in accordance with first user input received via the input device, the first image included among the plurality of images;

associate first positional information with the first image;

select relevant informational landmark content from the plurality of informational landmark content based on the landmark positional information of the relevant information landmark content and the associated first positional information of the first image;

perform a comparison between associated positional information of each one of the plurality of images to the landmark positional information associated with each one of the plurality informational landmark content;

determine a display order based on the comparison; and

output a display presentation of the plurality of images and at least the selected relevant informational landmark content based on the determined display order.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the relevant informational landmark content is selected based on a distance between a first portion that is in accordance with the landmark positional information of the relevant information landmark content and a second position that is in accordance with the associated first positional information.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the distance is less than distances between the associated first positional information and the landmark positional information of the other information landmark content.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the processing system is further configured to set a visited value for each one of the plurality of informational landmark content,

wherein the selected relevant informational landmark content is further based on the visited value of the selected relevant informational landmark content.

19. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

at least one camera that is configured to acquire at least the first image in accordance with the first user input.