Image pickup device, image recording method, and image recording system
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoichiro Daigo, Kaoru Yoshida
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Abstract
A digital still camera easily adds information relating to a pick-up time to a picked-up image. The digital still camera is connected to Internet through communication function of a cellular phone based on a download time interval of each URL and obtains an HTML file from a URL specified by information downloaded from the Internet. When an image is picked-up and stored in a flash memory as a JPEG file, the obtained HTML file is written into a comment region of the JPEG file.
Claims18
An image pickup device comprising:
- an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of an object;
- an image storage unit configured to store the image which is picked up by the image pickup unit;
- a connection unit connectable to the network;
- an address storage unit configured to store an address on the network;
- an information obtaining unit configured to obtain information on the network based on the address stored in the address storage unit;
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- an adding unit configured to add the information obtained by the information obtaining unit to the image stored in the image storage unit.
An image recording method comprising:
- reading an address on a network which is stored in an image pickup device;
- connecting the image pickup device to a site designated by the read address through the network;
- obtaining information from the site through the network;
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- adding the obtained information to a picked up image when the image pickup device stores the image.
An image recording system comprising:
- an image recording unit connectable to a network and configured to record image data of an object;
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- a server unit configured to provide information through the network,
- wherein the image recording unit adds the information obtained from the server unit through the network to the image data when the image recording unit records the image data.
An image recording system comprising:
- an image recording unit configured to record image data of an object;
- a server unit configured to provide information through the network;
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- a network access unit connected to the image recording unit and configured to be connected to the server unit through the network, obtain the information from the server through the network, and transfer the obtained information to the image recording unit, wherein the image recording unit records the transferred information in association with recorded image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.