Digital camera that sends electronic mail with event information

• US 9,838,574 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2007
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Iwasawa, Aki, Ohmura, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): DAILEY, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US12/308,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307322A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,812 Days
• Field of Search: 709206, 348 1401
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2183 the stored images being distributed among a plurality of different locations, e.g. among a plurality of users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0065 Converting image data to a format usable by the connected apparatus or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• 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 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence

Abstract

A digital camera comprises an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject and acquires image data, a communication unit for sending and receiving electronic mail data including image data, a recording control unit that records the image data acquired by the image-capturing unit as photographed image data upon a recording medium, an email for sending creation unit that creates an email for sending, to which is attached an image based upon the photographed image data recorded upon the recording medium, and an email address setting unit that sets an email address as the destination of the email for sending. The email for sending creation unit creates a title or a text of the email for sending, based upon at least one of the photographed image data and the email address that has been set.

Claims

1. A portable telephone equipped with a camera, the portable telephone comprising:

an image-capturing unit that captures a photographic subject and acquires image data related to position information denoting a position at which the photographic subject is captured by the image-capturing unit;

an image data storage control unit that controls to store the image data acquired by the image-capturing unit to a storage unit;

an image data selection unit that selects first image data related to a first position information among a plurality of image data stored in the storage unit;

a position information acquisition unit that acquires the first position information related to the first image data selected by the image data selection unit;

a map information acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a map based on the first position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit;

a creation unit that creates at least one of a title and a text of an email to be sent to a destination automatically based on the first position information acquired by the position acquisition unit; and

a communication unit that sends the email, the first image data selected by the image data selection unit and the information indicating the map acquired by the map information acquisition unit.

2. The portable telephone according to claim 1, wherein

the image data, acquired by the image-capturing unit, is related to a date, on which the photographic subject is captured, further comprising

an event information acquisition unit that acquires an event information in correspondence to the first date related to the first image data, wherein

the creation unit creates at least one of the title and the text of the email automatically based on the event information acquired by the event information acquisition unit.