JP2006120058A - Electronic album creating application software - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To adjust and display images acquired in an album on an album viewer in a combination of distance from an optional basic point and time by classifying the images in each city name on the basis of position information and time information recorded in photographed images in electronic album application software for displaying photographed images of a digital camera as an electronic album on a computer screen. <P>SOLUTION: This application reads GPS data and time information recorded in each image data, acquires a corresponding city name while referring to a database, sorts city names in order of distance from a preset start point, further sorts images belonging to each city name in order of photographing time and displays the images on the album viewer. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an image display method in electronic album application software.

In the conventional electronic album application, the order when displaying the captured images of the digital camera is generally the date order or the file name order. A keyword is embedded in the folder, or a folder is created for each shooting location, and each image is classified in advance. (For example, see Patent Document 1)
JP 2001-282814 A

  In the conventional technology, when the user wants to organize and display for each shooting location, the user manually moves the arrangement of the photos, or when automatically performing, the keyword for identifying the shooting location is embedded in each image in advance. Or create a folder for each shooting location and categorize each image in advance, and creating an electronic album that organizes and displays images for each shooting location requires a lot of work. It was.

  In the present invention, when sorting the images on the electronic album, the GPS data and time information recorded in each image data are read, the corresponding city name is obtained while referring to the database, and the user is in the order of the distance from any starting point. By sorting city names, it is now possible to automatically categorize and display images for each shooting location without embedding keywords in each image in advance or sorting the images into folders. .

  As described above, according to the present invention, when sorting images on an electronic album, the application automatically reads GPS data and time information recorded in each image data, and images are taken for each captured city. Since images are sorted and displayed, it is no longer necessary for the user to embed keywords in each image in advance or classify images into folders.

  Furthermore, since sorting is performed in the order of the distance from the arbitrary starting point to the shooting location such as the user's home, it is possible to feel the distance of the place where it has been so far, and it is suitable for looking back on the memories of where the user has gone It became possible to create an electronic album easily.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on an example with reference to the drawings.

  1, FIG. 2, and FIG. 3 are a flow of an image display method in the electronic album application software of the present embodiment, an example of a module configuration of the electronic album application software of the present embodiment, and a specific example of a user interface, respectively.

  When a sorting request is generated for an image on the electronic album, the application first analyzes the Exif tag of the image file by the Exif tag analysis unit 21 shown in FIG. Information is acquired and passed to the data processing unit 21.

  In subsequent step 12, the data processing unit 22 refers to the database 21, acquires the city name corresponding to the GPS data acquired in step 11, and manages the image file name, city name, and time information as link information. Store in the memory 25.

  In the next step 13, the data processing unit 22 acquires from the user interface control unit 24 the setting in descending or ascending order of the order based on the starting point and the shooting date and time set by the user in the setting area 31 on the user interface shown in FIG. 3. .

  In subsequent step 14, the data processing unit 22 calculates the distance from the starting point acquired in step 13 to the center of the city acquired in step 12 using each latitude and longitude, and stores the calculation result in the management memory 25. To do. At this time, the latitude and longitude of the center point of the city are acquired from the database 23.

  The operations from step 11 to step 14 are performed on all images.

  In subsequent step 15, the data processing unit 22 compares the distances stored in the management memory 25 in step 14, and gives a ranking to each city name in ascending order of distance.

  In subsequent step 16, the data processing unit 22 sorts all images in order of city names based on the link information stored in the management memory 25 in step 12 and the order of city names determined in step 15. Thereafter, the image files belonging to the respective city names are further sorted in order of shooting date and time based on the setting acquired in step 13, and the overall ranking is determined and stored in the management memory 25.

  The list shown in FIG. 4 is a specific example of the determined overall ranking, and is the case where the starting point is Tokyo and the order by shooting date is set in ascending order.

  In the next step 17, the user interface control unit 24 displays an image on the album viewer 32 shown in FIG. 3 based on the overall order stored in the management memory 25 in step 16.

  At this time, it is also possible to display the shooting date, place, etc. as the page title on the album page 33 based on the setting by the user interface.

The flowchart of the display method of the image in the electronic album application software of a present Example. The figure which shows the example of the module structure of the electronic album application software of a present Example. The figure which shows the specific example of the user interface of the electronic album application software of a present Example. A list showing a specific example of the order of sorting by combining city names and shooting dates.

Explanation of symbols

21 Exif tag analysis unit 22 Data processing unit 23 Database 24 User interface control unit 25 Management memory 31 Setting area 32 Album viewer 33 Album page 34 Image

Claims (3)

It is possible to display and save digital camera shot images on a computer screen as an electronic album,
Means for reading GPS data and time information recorded in each image data;
A database that can search city names based on GPS information,
In electronic album software with a user interface for setting arbitrary points on the map,
When sorting the captured images on the electronic album, the name of the city to which the point indicated by the GPS data belongs is obtained from the database based on the GPS data of each image.
Sort city names in order of distance from the starting point set in advance by the user interface,
An electronic album display method, wherein images belonging to each city name are sorted in order of shooting time.   2. The electronic album display method according to claim 1, wherein by specifying a radius from the starting point, images shot in a city existing within a specified circular range are sorted in order of shooting time.   3. The electronic album display method according to claim 1, wherein UTC (Greenwich Mean Time) is used instead of the photographing time.

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