Nikon Corporation

Hiroshi Kamehara

Masakazu Sekiguchi

Yu Murakoshi

Kaoru Yoshino

Tomoyuki Sashima

Hiroshi Kasai

Mayuko Ito

Kaori Tsuruta

Satoshi Hasegawa

Noriyasu Kotani

Hisashi Tai

Terutada Akiyama

Taichi Goto

A method implemented by a computer, the method includes: detecting a position of an electronic device capable of communicating with a portable device; setting a range of a position at which the electronic device provides a notification pertaining to the portable device based on a position of the electronic device that has communicated with the portable device; and providing the notification based on the range set in the setting and the position of the electronic device detected in the detecting of a position.

Method and electronic device

An electronic device includes: an operation unit; a detection unit that detects a position or an orientation; a communication unit that communicates with an external device including an image capture unit; and a storing unit that stores image data, wherein the communication unit receives image data generated by the image capture unit from the external device after transmitting information instructing the image capture unit included in the external device to capture an image in response to an operation of the operation unit, and the storing unit stores the image data received and information on the position detected by the detection unit or information on the orientation detected by the detection unit.

Camera with communication unit that communicates with external device

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroshi Kamehara