US 11,445,117 B2Granted

Portable information device having real-time display with relevant information

AssigneeNikon Corporation

InventorsHideya Inoue, Toru Iwaoka, Michiko Noborisaka, Masayuki Hatori, Tomohide Hamada

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Abstract

A portable information device including a body, a position information portion that is provided in the body and that outputs position information, an image sensor that is provided in the body, a display system that is provided in the body and that displays, on a local field in a screen field, relevant information based on the position information such that the displayed relevant information is overlapped on a real-time image, an input portion that is provided on the body and, by use of which user operates an icon, the icon being displayed on the local field such that the displayed icon is overlapped on the real-time image and an imaging button that is provided, separately from the input portion, on the body and that is operated by user to capture a subject image via the image sensor.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An information acquisition system comprising:

a body;
a locator provided in the body;
an orientation sensor provided in the body;
an image sensor provided in the body;
a database that stores building structure information;
a server configured to find a building structure based on position information from the locator and orientation information from the orientation sensor and to output structure information of the building structure found by the server, the building structure information including peripheral image data of the building structure;
and
a display system having a display and a controller, each being provided in the body and configured to:
compare the peripheral image data with the building structure information stored in the database to detect whether a threshold is met;
when the threshold the threshold is met, select, as the building structure, a first building structure that is located at closest distance from the body;
when the threshold is not met, select, as the building structure, a second building structure that is located at a next closest distance from the body;
display, on a local field in a real-time field, the structure information such that the displayed structure information is overlapped on at least a live view;
and
display, on the local field in the real-time field, a peripheral image around the building structure, the peripheral image being based on the peripheral image data, and being displayed such that the peripheral image is overlapped on at least the live view.

11 more elements

A portable information device configured to be in wireless communication with an information search server via an information communication network, the portable information device comprising:

a body;
an image sensor that is provided in the body and is configured to image a subject and output image information regarding an image of the subject;
a locator that is provided in the body and is configured to output position information;
a transmitter that is provided in the body and is configured to transmit the image and the position information to the information search server and receive search result information from the information search server;
a memory that is provided in the body;
a touch panel display that is provided in the body;
and
a controller that is provided in the body and is configured to:
in response to a touch operation to execute a search about a building structure as a search target while a search target building structure is imaged through the image sensor and a target structure image is displayed on the touch panel display, display the search result information on the touch panel display along with the target structure image, the search result information including relevant image information about the search target building structure and relevant text information about the relevant image information, the search result information being based on the position information corresponding to the target structure image and a result of an image recognition for the target structure image;
and
in response to another touch operation while the search result information is displayed on the touch panel display, display additional information about the search result information on the touch panel display.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/142,722Filed 6 Jan 2021 · division
Priority: JP 2008-2057298 Aug 2008
Published: US 2021/0127069 A129 Apr 2021
Granted: 13 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H04N 23/631
By using electronic viewfinders: graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
H04N 1/00244
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: with a server, e.g. an internet server
H04N 1/00307
With a telecommunication apparatus, e.g. a switched network of teleprinters for the distribution of text-based information, a selective call…
H04N 1/00411
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen

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Application61/136,294Us provisional application · filed 26 Aug 2008
Application12/461,324Parent of this division · filed 7 Aug 2009
Application14/247,737Parent of this division · filed 8 Apr 2014
US 8,730,337 B2Parent of this division · filed 20 May 2014
Application15/648,777Parent of this division · filed 13 Jul 2017
US 9,743,003 B2Parent of this division · filed 22 Aug 2017
US 2021/0127069 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Apr 2021
US 10,917,575 B2Parent of this division
US 2010/0039505 A1Published application
US 2014/0218581 A1Published application
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