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US 2011/0216165 A1Published application
Electronic apparatus, image output method, and program therefor
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorTomonori Misawa
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Abstract
Provided is an electronic apparatus including: a storage to store digital photograph images, shooting date and time information, and shooting location information; a current date and time obtaining unit to obtain a current date and time; a current location obtaining unit to obtain a current location; a controller to draw each of digital photograph images at a drawing position based on the shooting date and time and the shooting location in a virtual three-dimensional space, and to image the virtual three-dimensional space, in which each of digital photograph images is drawn; and an output unit to output the imaged virtual three-dimensional space.
Claims7
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- a storage configured to store
- a plurality of digital photograph images,
- shooting date and time information indicating a shooting date and time of each of the digital photograph images, and
- shooting location information indicating a shooting location of each of the digital photograph images;
- a current date and time obtaining unit configured to obtain a current date and time;
- a current location obtaining unit configured to obtain a current location;
- a controller configured to
- draw each of digital photograph images at a drawing position based on the shooting date and time and the shooting location in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including
- one of a time axis corresponding to the shooting date and time and a distance axis corresponding to the shooting location in a radial direction of a circle having a center at a view-point of a user, the view-point corresponding to the current date and time and the current location, and
- a direction axis corresponding to the shooting location in a circumferential direction of the circle, each of digital photograph images being drawn in such a manner that each of digital photograph images has a size proportional to a distance from the view-point to the drawing position, and
- image the virtual three-dimensional space, in which each of digital photograph images is drawn, for a predetermined range of field of view from the view-point;
- and
- an output unit configured to output the imaged virtual three-dimensional space.
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An image output method, comprising:
- storing
- a plurality of digital photograph images,
- shooting date and time information indicating a shooting date and time of each of the digital photograph images, and
- shooting location information indicating a shooting location of each of the digital photograph images;
- obtaining a current date and time;
- obtaining a current location;
- drawing each of digital photograph images at a
- drawing position based on the shooting date and time and the shooting location in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including
- one of a time axis corresponding to the shooting date and time and a distance axis corresponding to the shooting location in a radial direction of a circle having a center at a view-point of a user, the view-point corresponding to the current date and time and the current location, and
- a direction axis corresponding to the shooting location in a circumferential direction of the circle, each of digital photograph images being drawn in such a manner that each of digital photograph images has a size proportional to a distance from the view-point to the drawing position;
- imaging the virtual three-dimensional space, in which each of digital photograph images is drawn, for a predetermined range of field of view from the view-point;
- and
- outputting the imaged virtual three-dimensional space.
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A program configured to cause an electronic apparatus to execute steps of:
- storing
- a plurality of digital photograph images,
- shooting date and time information indicating a shooting date and time of each of the digital photograph images, and
- shooting location information indicating a shooting location of each of the digital photograph images;
- obtaining a current date and time;
- obtaining a current location;
- drawing each of digital photograph images at a drawing position based on the shooting date and time and the shooting location in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including
- one of a time axis corresponding to the shooting date and time and a distance axis corresponding to the shooting location in a radial direction of a circle having a center at a view-point of a user, the view-point corresponding to the current date and time and the current location, and
- a direction axis corresponding to the shooting location in a circumferential direction of the circle, each of digital photograph images being drawn in such a manner that each of digital photograph images has a size proportional to a distance from the view-point to the drawing position;
- imaging the virtual three-dimensional space, in which each of digital photograph images is drawn, for a predetermined range of field of view from the view-point;
- and
- outputting the imaged virtual three-dimensional space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.