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Image capturing apparatus that records captured image and location information in association with each other

  • US 8,614,761 B2
  • Filed: 10/04/2011
  • Issued: 12/24/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2010
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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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 of the image capture;

    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, if the location information is successfully acquired by the location information acquiring unit at the time of image capturing;

    a display control unit that, in a case in which the location information acquiring unit fails to acquire the location information at the time of image capturing, automatically displays on a display unit a map with a map range determined based on location information acquired by the location information acquiring unit at a time earlier than the time of image capturing, wherein a map is not displayed on the display unit in a case in which the location information acquiring unit successfully acquires the location information at the time of image capturing;

    a designation reception unit that receives a location designated by a user from within the map range of the map 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, in the case in which the location information acquiring unit fails to acquire the location information at the time of image capturing.

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