Image pickup apparatus, navigation apparatus and IC card

• US 7,042,498 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2005
• Issued: 05/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Noguchi, Fujio, Haraguchi, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Ometz, David L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): JONES, HEATHER RAE
• Application Number:
  US11/083,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20050165542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.99
• US Class Current: 348/207.99
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3647 Guidance involving output of stored or live camera images or video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2158 using a detachable storage unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• 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

Abstract

An IC card inserted into a navigation apparatus that provides guidance regarding a route to a destination so as to store information about the route. The information about relations and image data related to the route are recorded in the IC card in correspondence with locations along the route.

Claims

1. An IC card inserted into a navigation apparatus providing guidance on a display regarding a route to a destination so as to store information about said route, wherein:

said information about route relations and image data related to said route are recorded in said IC card in correspondence with locations along said route,

said route relations indicate a number of captured images at a point along the route as the management data, and

said management data comprises a map of the route.