Electronic apparatus

• US 9,094,654 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Sogoh, Chie, Ohmura, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): AGGARWAL, YOGESH K
• Application Number:
  US12/385,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20090278973A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,307 Days
• Field of Search: 348/61, 34833301-33309
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00323 with a measuring, monitoring or signaling apparatus, e.g. for transmitting measured information to a central location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes: a display at which a photographic image and a map image are displayed; a display control unit that controls the display so as to display identifiers each indicating a specific photographing location at which the photographic image among a plurality of photographic images was captured, over the map image displayed at the display; and an instruction unit that issues an instruction indicating a display mode for the identifier.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display at which a photographic image and a map image are displayed;

a display control unit that controls the display so as to display identifiers each indicating a specific photographing location at which the photographic image among a plurality of photographic images was captured, over the map image displayed at the display;

a specification unit that receives a selecting operation for selecting a part of the map image from an entire area of the map image that is being displayed at the display and specifies the selected part of the map image as a specified region; and

an instruction unit that issues an instruction to change a common appearance of identifiers in the specified region specified by the specification unit, wherein

the display control unit controls the display so as to change the appearance of all the common identifiers in the specified region in accordance with the instruction issued by the instruction unit.

2. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the instruction unit issues the instruction indicating the appearance of the identifier in correspondence to a photographing date on which the photographic image was captured.

3. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the instruction unit issues the instruction indicating the appearance of the identifier in correspondence to device information indicating a device used to capture the photographic image.

4. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the instruction unit issues the instruction indicating the appearance of the identifier in correspondence to an operation signal output from an operation member.

5. An electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein:

the instruction unit issues the instruction indicating the appearance of the identifier in correspondence to the operation signal output from the operation member while the map image is displayed at the display.

6. An electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein:

the instruction unit issues the instruction indicating the appearance of the identifier in correspondence to the operation signal output from the operation member while the photographic image is displayed at the display.

7. An electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the instruction unit selects one of an option for setting the common appearance of the identifiers in correspondence to all photographing locations and an option for not displaying the identifiers at any of the photographing locations.

8. An electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

when a plurality of the identifiers are displayed over the map image, the instruction unit selects displaying all of the identifiers over the map image or displaying only specific identifiers over the map image.

9. An electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein:

the instruction unit sustains the appearance of the identifier over a specific length of time.

10. An electronic apparatus according to claim 9, wherein:

the instruction unit adjusts the specific length of time based upon the operation signal output from the operation member.

11. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the identifiers assume an appearance that allows the identifiers to indicate photographing directions; and

the instruction unit determines orientations of the identifiers in correspondence to the photographing directions in which photographs were taken at the photographing locations.

12. An electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:

when the map image is displayed at the display with a display scale equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the instruction unit allows use of the identifiers assuming the appearance that enables the identifiers to indicate the photographing directions.

13. An electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein:

the instruction unit specifies the identifiers corresponding to indicated photographing locations.

14. An electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein:

the instruction unit specifies the identifiers corresponding to not indicated photographing locations.

15. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selecting operation is executed by assuming a quadrangle on the map image that is being displayed at the display.

16. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the appearance is a shape of the identifier.

17. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the appearance is a color of the identifier.