JP2005181393A - Imaging apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus for efficiently displaying a picked up image on a map. <P>SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus is provided with: an image pickup means; a recording means to record, on a recording medium, the image data obtained by the image pickup means and positional information indicating the location of the image data pickup; and a control information generation means that generates control information for grouping a plurality of image data recorded on the recording medium on the basis of the positional information and displaying, for each of the groups, the image data at a corresponding position on a map picture. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an imaging apparatus, and more particularly to an apparatus that processes an image based on position information at the time of shooting.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a technique for classifying and storing captured images according to the shooting location is known. In addition, a technique is also known in which an image captured in this way is reduced to a thumbnail image and displayed at a shooting position on a map from GPS information.
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  However, if thumbnails are simply displayed at the shooting locations on the map, for example, it is not possible to display all the thumbnails of a plurality of images close to the shooting locations, making it difficult to view.

  An object of the present invention is to solve such problems and to enable a captured image to be efficiently displayed on a map.

  Imaging means, recording means for recording image data obtained by the imaging means and position information indicating the shooting location of the image data on a recording medium, and a plurality of information recorded on the recording medium based on the position information Control information generating means for grouping image data and generating control information for displaying the image data at a corresponding position on a map image for each group.

  Since this invention was comprised in this way, it becomes possible to display image data for every group on a map image.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an imaging apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

  In FIG. 1, 101 is an imaging unit, 102 is a GPS circuit, 103 is a CPU, 104 is a display unit, 105 is a memory, 106 is a compression / decompression unit, 107 is a recording / playback unit, 108 is an operation unit having various operation switches, Reference numeral 109 denotes a recording medium. In this embodiment, a disk-shaped medium is used.

  The operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  At the time of shooting, image data shot by the imaging unit 101 is input to the compression / decompression unit 106 via the bus 110. The compression / decompression unit 106 encodes image data by a well-known method, compresses the information amount, and records the data in the recording / reproducing unit 107 via the bus 110.

  At this time, the GPS circuit 102 detects position information indicating latitude / longitude data at the start of shooting and outputs the position information to the recording / playback unit 107. The recording / playback unit 107 records a series of moving image data and GPS information at the start of shooting on the recording medium 109.

  When the recording on the recording medium 109 is completed, the CPU 103 divides the image data recorded on the recording medium 109 into a plurality of groups based on the GPS information obtained at the time of shooting.

  Here, the grouping process will be described.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram relatively showing the shooting location of the image data recorded on the recording medium 109. In this embodiment, the shooting location display screen shown in FIG. 2 is divided into arbitrary unit blocks.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a state of being divided into blocks. Then, the number of image data is counted for each divided block.

  FIG. 4 shows the count value for each block. Then, the CPU 103 performs grouping based on the count number for each block.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing grouping.

  As described above, the CPU 103 performs grouping processing.

  Then, the CPU 103 generates an html file for designating such a group on the map image. That is, for each group corresponding to the position on the map image, by designating the map image by clicking or the like, an html file is generated so as to be linked to the image data of the corresponding group and reproduced and displayed. Furthermore, an thumbnail file is displayed for each group, and an html file for displaying a captured image by clicking is also created.

  In FIG. 6, the top is a file in which areas are divided for each group on the map image. Below is a file for displaying thumbnails with respect to group A, and displaying captured images by clicking. The CPU 103 generates such a file.

  In the present invention, an html file is generated and stored in the memory 105 as described above.

  When there is an instruction to display a map of the image data recorded on the recording medium 109 by the operation unit 108, a map image is generated and displayed based on the map image data separately recorded in the memory and the above-mentioned html file. Displayed on the unit 104. When an arbitrary point on the map image is designated by the user operating the operation unit 108, the CPU 103 reproduces the image data of the group including the point from the recording medium 109 by the recording / reproducing unit 107, and compresses it. After being decoded by the decompression unit 106, it is displayed on the display unit 104.

  In this embodiment, an html file is generated. However, other than this, for example, control information for displaying a shooting position on a map image can be created in a description language such as XML.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the imaging device to which this invention is applied. It is a figure which shows the mode of an imaging | photography place. It is a figure which shows the block for grouping. It is a figure which shows the number of picked-up images for every block. It is a figure which shows the mode of a group. It is a figure which shows the html file for a map display.

Claims (7)

Imaging means;
Recording means for recording image data obtained by the imaging means and position information indicating a shooting location of the image data on a recording medium;
Control information generating means for grouping a plurality of image data recorded on the recording medium based on the position information and generating control information for displaying the image data at a corresponding position on a map image for each group An imaging apparatus comprising:   The control information generating means includes first control information for setting a position of the group on the map image, and second control information for linking to image data at a position specified on the map image. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:   The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the position information includes latitude and longitude information.   Image data recorded on the recording medium based on display means for displaying the map image, designation means for designating an arbitrary position on the map image, position designated by the designation means, and the control information The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a control unit that reproduces the image. An apparatus for processing image data recorded on a recording medium and position information indicating a shooting location of the image data,
A signal processing device that groups a plurality of image data recorded on the recording medium based on the position information, and generates control information for displaying the image data at a corresponding position on a map image for each group.   6. The signal processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the control information is described in a data description language. The signal processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the data description language includes html or xml.

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