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US 7,002,625 B2Granted
Image pickup apparatus for recording a photographed image in a directory
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuhiro Takahashi
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus, which is a device for recording an image file on a recording medium according to a file system having a plurality of directories including attributes associated with a photographing position of image data and a photographer, detects the photographing position of a photographed image data and the photographer and records the image file on the directory of the attributes corresponding to the detected photographing position and the photographer from among said plurality of directories.
Claims5
An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
- image pickup means;
- recording means for allotting image data to a plurality of groups corresponding to the photographers of the image data and recording the image data on the recording medium according to the allotted group, a plurality of image data being allotted to each of the plurality of groups;
- fingerprint detection means for detecting a fingerprint of the photographer;
- photographer discrimination means for discriminating the photographer of the image data newly photographed by said image pickup means in accordance with the fingerprint detected by said fingerprint detection means;
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- control means for detecting the group corresponding to the photographer discriminated by said photographer discrimination means among said plurality of groups where the image data are already allotted and for controlling said recording means so as to record the newly photographed image data by allotting the newly photographed image data to the detected group.
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