US 2007/0165968 A1Published application

Image editing system and image editing program

AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation

InventorHajime Terayoko

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Abstract

An image editor is provided with a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, an LCD panel, an operating section, a memory card reader and an HDD. The HDD stores a landmark database and a contents database. Before writing data of an image in a memory card, position data indicating a camera location, at which the image is captured, is attached to the image data. When the image data and the attached position data are read through the memory card reader, the CPU searches the landmark database based on the position data, and sorts the image data into groups according to the retrieved landmark data. Then the CPU retrieves such contents data that relate to the landmark data from the contents database. Using the grouped image data and the retrieved contents data, the image editor produces a digital photo-album or a digital photo-movie.

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Dependent claims

An image editing system for editing image data, wherein position data is attached to the image data, indicating a camera location at which each image is captured, said system comprising:

a landmark database storing data of a variety of landmarks, including locations and names of the landmarks;
a contents database storing contents data that include data relating to the respective landmarks and data for giving some effect to the images;
a device for obtaining the image data of a plural number of images along with the position data;
a search device for searching said landmark database, to retrieve such landmark data based on the position data that relates to the camera location of each image;
a sorting device for sorting the image data into groups according to the retrieved landmark data, while associating the retrieved landmark data with the corresponding image data;
and
an image editing device that obtains from said contents database such contents data that relates to the landmark data associated with the image data of one group, to edit the image data of this group by use of the obtained contents data.

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An image editing program for editing image data, wherein position data is attached to the image data, indicating a camera location at which each image is captured, said program makes a computer execute the following processes of:

obtaining the image data of a plural number of images along with the position data;
searching a landmark database based on the position data, said landmark database storing data including locations and names of a variety of landmarks, to retrieve data of at least a landmark that relates to the camera location of each image;
sorting the image data into groups according to the retrieved landmark data, while associating the retrieved landmark data with the image data;
obtaining from a contents data base such contents data that relates to the landmark data associated with the image data of one group, said contents database storing contents data that include data relating to the respective landmarks and data for giving some effect to the images;
and
editing the image data of said one group by use of the obtained contents data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.