Digital camera that stores the location of an object
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorSeikon Seki
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Abstract
An image processing device including an optical system, a storage device, a position detecting device, and a direction detecting device. An optical system obtains an image of an object, and a storage device stores a predetermined position of an object to be shot. The position detecting device detects a current position of the image processing device, and the direction detecting device detects the directional orientation of the image processing device. A processor then determines whether an obtained object of shooting corresponds to the object to be shot by comparing signals output from said position detecting device and said direction detecting device with the stored position of the object to be shot.
Claims16
An image processing device comprising:
- an optical system configured to obtain an image of an object;
- a storage device configured to store a predetermined position of an object to be shot;
- a position detecting device configured to detect a current position of said image processing device;
- a direction detecting device configured to detect a directional orientation of said image processing device, and
- a processor configured to determine whether said obtained image of an object corresponds to said object to be shot based on a comparison between the stored predetermined position of an object to be shot and signals output from said position detecting device and said direction detecting device.
An image processing device comprising:
- an optical system configured to obtain an image of an object;
- a storage device configured to store a predetermined parameter related to a status of the image processing device;
- means for detecting a status of said image processing device, and
- means for changing said image parameter to the predetermined parameter in said storage device based on the signal output from said means for detecting a status.
A digital camera comprising:
- an optical system configured to obtain an image of an object;
- a storage device configured to store a predetermined position of an object to be shot;
- a position detecting device configured to detect a current position of said image processing device;
- a direction detecting device configured to detect a directional orientation of said digital camera, and
- a processor configured to determine whether said obtained image of an object corresponds to the object to be shot based on a comparison between the stored predetermined position of the object to be shot and signals output from said position detecting device and said direction detecting device.
A method of capturing an image using an image processing device, comprising:
- storing a position of an object to be shot;
- obtaining an image of an object within the field of view of the image processing device;
- determining a current position of the image processing device;
- and
- comparing the stored position of the object to be shot to the current position of the image processing device to determine if said object within the field of view of the image processing device corresponds to the object to be photographed.
A computer program product comprising a computer storage medium storing a computer program code mechanism, which when executed by an image processing device, causes the image processing device to perform a method of capturing an image, comprising:
- storing a position of an object to be shot;
- obtaining an image of an object within the field of view of the image processing device;
- determining a current position of the image processing device;
- and
- comparing the stored position of the object to be shot to the current position of the image processing device to determine if said object within the field of view of the image processing device corresponds to the object to be photographed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.