US 2014/0176705 A1 · PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT

Abstract

A photographing apparatus includes a photographing unit that photographs an object; and a processor that is configured to acquire dimension information that corresponds to a type of a given crop to be photographed, from a storage unit that stores for each type of crop, dimension information that indicates a dimension to be used as a comparison reference for the crop; create based on a photographing condition at the time of photographing of the given crop by the photographing unit and the acquired dimension information, a graphic image representative of the dimension to be used as the comparison reference for the given crop, on a photographed image taken by the photographing unit; and output the photographed image taken by the photographing unit and the created graphic image in a correlated manner.

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Dependent claims

A photographing apparatus comprising:

a photographing unit that photographs an object;
and
a process that is configured to:
acquire dimension information that corresponds to a type of a given crop to be photographed, from a storage unit that stores for each type of crop, dimension information that indicates a dimension to be used as a comparison reference for the crop;
create based on a photographing condition at the time of photographing of the given crop by the photographing unit and the acquired dimension information, a graphic image representative of the dimension to be used as the comparison reference for the given crop, on a photographed image taken by the photographing unit;
and
output the photographed image taken by the photographing unit and the created graphic image in a correlated manner.

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An information providing method comprising:

receiving from a photographing apparatus, apparatus information that identifies the photographing apparatus;
extracting based on the received apparatus information and from a storage unit that stores for each type of crop, dimension information that indicates a dimension to be used as a comparison reference of the crop, dimension information that corresponds to a type of a given crop that is to be photographed by the photographing apparatus;
and
transmitting the extracted dimension information to the photographing apparatus, wherein
the information providing method is executed by a computer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Photographing apparatus, information providing method, and computer product

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Photographing apparatus, information providing method, and computer product

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