Camera device, methods and program products for location and environmental stamping of images, communications and other applications

In a system including an image-collecting device coupled to a remote data processing system and a workstation via a network using network protocols, a method for recording an image including a geographical location, and/or environmental conditions in a medium, comprising the steps of:

• a) forming an electronic image of an object of interest in digital form in the image-collecting device;
• b) determining a geographical location of the image in digital form;
• c) capturing and storing the digital image and the geographical location thereof in a memory;
• d) storing descriptive text of a plurality of objects of interest related to the digital image at a geographical location in a remote processing system or workstation;
• e) communicating with and accessing the remote processing system or workstation wherein accessing the remote processing system or workstation correlates and records the digital image with the geographical location, and descriptive text associated with the object of interest in a medium;
• f) selecting and associating the descriptive text with the digital image in the work station;
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• g) printing the digital image with the geographical location, and descriptive text associated with the object of interest in the medium at the workstation.

In an article of manufacture:

• A program medium, executable in a computer system, for recording all image including a related descriptive text, geographical location information and/or environmental conditions in a medium, comprising:
• a) program instruction in the medium forming an electronic image of an object of interest in digital form;
• b) program instruction in the medium determining a geographical location of the image in digital form;
• c) program instruction in the medium capturing and storing the digital image and the geographical location thereof in an image-collecting device wherein the program instructions convert satellite signals into geographical coordinates in digital form indicative of the image geographical location for storage in the image-collecting device;
• d) program instruction in the medium for storing and accessing descriptive text of a plurality of objects of interest related to the image at a geographical location in a remote data processing system or workstation, wherein accessing the remote processing system or workstation correlates and records the digital image with the geographical location, and descriptive text associated with the object of interest in a medium;
• e) program instructions in the medium for accessing and correlating the digital image with the geographic location at the workstation;
• f) program instructions in the medium for programmatically correlating the descriptive text with the image at the geographical location under user direction;
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• g) program instructions in the medium enabling selection and recording the image with the geographical location and associated descriptive text in a picture.

A camera device for recording an image including a geographical location, environmental conditions at the location and related descriptive text in a medium, comprising:

• a) means for forming an electronic image of an object of interest in digital form;
• b) means for determining a geographical location of the image and related environmental conditions;
• c) means for recording the image, environmental conditions and related geographical location;
• d) means for communicating the recorded image, environmental conditions with related geographical location to a network for subsequent processing;
• e) a server in the network for storing descriptive text of objects of interest;
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• f) means for communicating with and accessing the server for programmatically correlating and recording the digital image with geographical location, environmental conditions and descriptive text associated with the object of interest in a medium under user control.

A camera device for recording an image including a geographical location, related descriptive text and/or environmental conditions in a medium, comprising:

• a) means for forming an electronic image of an object of interest in digital form;
• b) means for determining a geographical location of the image in digital form;
• c) means for storing the digital image and the geographical location thereof in a memory;
• d) means for storing and accessing descriptive text related to the image at the geographical location;
• e) means for selecting and correlating the descriptive text with the image at the geographical location;
• f) means for recording the image, related geographical location and descriptive text;
• g) means for communicating the recorded image with or without related geographical location and descriptive text to a network for subsequent processing using network protocols;
• h) a server in the network for storing descriptive text of objects of interest;
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• i) means under user control for communicating with and accessing the server for correlating and recording the digital image with geographical location and descriptive text stored in the server associated with the object of interest in a medium.