Image pickup device for automatically recording the location where an image is recorded

• US 5,267,042 A
• Filed: 07/09/1991
• Issued: 11/30/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Electronics (USA) Incorporated (Pioneer Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Electronics (USA) Incorporated (Pioneer Corporation)
• Inventors: Hatano, Ichiro, Tsuchiya, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Razavi, Michael T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GARBER, WENDY RAE
• Application Number:
  US07/727,173
• Time in Patent Office: 875 Days
• Field of Search: 358/909, 358/103, 358/108, 358/109, 358/209, 354/105, 354/109, 354/75, 354/76
• US Class Current: 348/239
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/24 with means for separately producing marks on the film, e.g. title, time of exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/243 Optical devices
• 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 2201/3277 The additional information being stored in the same storage device as the image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9206 the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

In recording an object image by the image pickup device body, the position detection means detects the present location of the image pickup device body to record the resulting position data at the same time when the object image is recorded onto the image recording medium by the recording means.

Claims

1. An image pickup device comprising:

a still picture image pickup device body for photographically recording an object image onto a photosensitive film,

position detection means for detecting a present location of said image pickup device body at the same time when the object image is recorded,

recording means for recording, onto said photosensitive film, data indicative of the present location obtained by said position detecting means,

data storage means for storing map data, and

data processing means for producing present location map data indicative of the present location from the map data stored in said data storage means and the data indicative of the present location.

2. An image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein said position detection means comprises a GPS receiver.

3. An image pickup device according to claim 1, further comprising print means for printing photographs of the object image and map data of the present location.

4. An image pickup device according to claim 1, further comprising an input unit for inputting the present location data to said data processing means.

5. An image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein said data storage means comprises a compact disk read-only-memory (CD-ROM).