Imaging device, image display device, and electronic camera
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorIsao Takahashi
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Abstract
An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that photographs an image; a position measurement unit that measures a photographic position when the image is photographed by the imaging unit; a control unit that determines whether or to not to record data for the photographic position along with the photographed image; and a recording unit that, according to a determination by the control unit, either records only the photographed image, or records the photographed image and the data for the photographic position.
Claims24
An imaging device, comprising:
- an imaging unit that photographs an image;
- a position measurement unit that measures a photographic position when the image is photographed by the imaging unit;
- a control unit that determines whether or to not to record data for the photographic position along with the photographed image;
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- a recording unit that, according to a determination by the control unit, either records only the photographed image, or records the photographed image and the data for the photographic position, wherein:
- the control unit determines whether or not to record the data for the photographic position along with the photographed image, based on the photographic position.
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An imaging device comprising:
- an imaging unit that photographs an image;
- a position measurement unit that measures a photographic position when the image is photographed by the imaging unit;
- a control unit that determines whether or not to record data for the photographic position along with the photographed image;
- a recording unit that, according to a determination by the control unit, either records only the photographed image, or records the photographed image and the data for the photographic position;
- a person storage unit that stores characteristics for a specific person;
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- a person recognition unit that recognizes the specific person in the photographed image by referring to the person storage unit, wherein:
- the control unit converts the recording accuracy for the data for the photographic position to low accuracy, if the specific person has been recognized in the photographed image.
An imaging device, comprising:
- an imaging unit that photographs an image;
- a position measurement unit that measures a photographic position when the image is photographed by the imaging unit;
- a control unit that determines a recording accuracy for data for the photographic position measured by the position measurement unit;
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- a recording unit that records the photographed image, the data for the photographic position, and the recording accuracy determined by the control unit.
An image display device, comprising:
- an image file search unit that finds an image file having a position measurement accuracy higher than or equal to a predetermined position measurement accuracy from among a plurality of image files each having position measurement data and information for position measurement accuracy of the position measurement data;
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- an image file display control unit that displays an image of an image file that has been found by the image file search unit upon a display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.