Sony Corporation

Masanao Tsutsui

Masayuki Ichihara

Takuma Nishikawa

An information processing apparatus is provided, in which content and position information generated independently of each other are recorded in a recording medium. The apparatus includes a recording medium in which the content and the position information are recorded and a deletion unit deleting position information temporally associated with a piece of the content from the recording medium when the piece of content is deleted from the recording medium.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program

A map display apparatus includes an image storage unit that stores images in association with corresponding items of image capturing position information of places where the images were captured; an image information reading unit that reads image capturing position information of a specified image from the image storage unit; an image capturing position displaying unit that displays a map represented by map information on the basis of the image capturing position information; a current position obtaining unit that obtains current position information from a position determining unit determining a current position; a current position displaying unit that displays a map represented by map information on the basis of the obtained current position information; and a map display switching unit that selectively switches between the map information of the image capturing position displaying unit and the map information of the current position displaying unit in response to a display switching instruction.

Map display apparatus and map display method

A map information display apparatus for displaying map information on the basis of information on image-capturing times and image-capturing positions that are respectively associated with a plurality of captured images includes a captured image extraction unit configured to extract images captured within a predetermined time period that includes the image-capturing time of a predetermined captured image from among the plurality of captured images; a map area selection unit configured to select an area of a map so as to include the image-capturing positions of the captured images extracted by the captured image extraction unit by using as a reference the image-capturing position of the predetermined captured image; and a map information display unit configured to display map information in such a manner that the area of the map, which is selected by the map area selection unit, is displayed.

Map information display apparatus, map information display method, and program

In step STof FIG., a map image is displayed. In step ST, moving-route marks are added to the map image. In step ST, image-pickup-position marks are added to the map image. In step ST, a current position mark is added to the map image. In step ST, a predetermined range is determined based on an image-pickup position. Furthermore, predetermined ranges are determined based on a moving route and a current position. In step ST, the number of types of landmark sign to be included in the map image is reduced in ranges other than the predetermined ranges. Since landmark signs which are positioned far from the image-pickup position, the moving route, and the current position and which are not important for a user are not added to the map image, map display is performed while display of the landmark signs is optimized.

Map display apparatus, map display method, and image pickup apparatus

An image playback apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image content including still images and movies and photographing information involved in photographing a subject to create the image content, an image classifying unit configured to classify the image content into a plurality of image groups on the basis of the photographing information, and an image playback unit configured to organize all still images belonging to one of the image groups into a still-image slideshow and successively playing back one or a plurality of movies belonging to the one image group and the still-image slideshow.

Image playback apparatus, image recording apparatus, image playback method, and image recording method

A map data display control apparatus includes: a position information acquiring section acquiring position information; a latitude determining section determining whether a latitude identified by the acquired position information is in the excess of a predetermined latitude threshold or not; a display range calculating section calculating a display range for displaying a map with reference to a position identified by the acquired position information based on the result of the determination made by the latitude determining section; and a rendering section rendering a map associated with the reference position based on the calculated display range.

Map data display control apparatus, map data display control method, and program for the same

An image pickup apparatus that records a picked-up image and time information indicating when the picked-up image was picked up includes a unit that obtains location information and UTC and generates positioning information indicating the obtained result, a unit that determines the time difference between the time corresponding to the location information and UTC using the location information, a unit that calculates the local time of a location indicated by the location information using UTC and the time difference, and a unit that performs correction of a system time of the image pickup apparatus when the time difference between the system time and the local time exceeds a predetermined time period and that causes the correction of the system time to be delayed until after the completion of a recording operation of the picked-up image when the recording operation is being performed.

Image pickup apparatus and time correction method

A map display apparatus for displaying a map image at a plurality of display resolutions includes the following elements. An information recording unit associates an image signal of a captured image with imaging position information to record the associated signal and information as image information. A map information storage unit stores map information for the map image. A classification information recording processing unit divides a map area shown by the map information into mesh cells such that different mesh cell sizes are suitable for the respective display resolutions, and generates and records imaging classification information. A display control unit determines on each of mesh cells on the map image, each mesh cell having a size suitable for the display resolution, on the basis of the imaging classification information whether the image information is relevant to a mesh cell, and arranges an imaging identification representation in the appropriate mesh cell.

Apparatus and method for map display and imaging apparatus at a plurality of display resolutions

An electronic apparatus includes: a timer part that measures a time, a location information acquiring part that acquires location information, and a peripheral location calculating part where a location specified by the acquired location information is provided as a reference location and a location at a predetermined distance from the reference location is calculated as a peripheral location. The electronic apparatus also includes a time-difference acquiring part that acquires time differences depending on the reference location and the peripheral location. Furthermore, the electronic apparatus includes a determining part that determines whether the time correction should be performed based on the time differences depending on the reference location and the peripheral location, and a time-correcting part that corrects the time to a time based on the time difference between the reference location and the peripheral location depending on a result from the determination by the determining part.

Electronic apparatus, image pickup apparatus, time-correcting method, and program

A positioning apparatus includes: a position computing part configured to receive signals from a plurality of radio transmitters to compute a position of the positioning apparatus; a reception status determining part configured to determine a reception state of the signals from the plurality of the radio transmitters; and an intermittent drive setting part configured to set a time interval for receiving signals by the position computing part according to the reception state determined by the reception status determining part.

Positioning apparatus and positioning method

In order to have an electronic apparatus in which user's feeling of operation upon making a connection to a desired slave apparatus through wireless communication is improved, the present invention provides an electronic apparatus in which a control microcomputer lowers a transmission power of a Bluetooth module than a normal condition and determines the number of apparatuses to be searched to transmit an interrogation signal on a wireless communication line. Information of a service class of an apparatus responded to the interrogation signal is obtained from received information and a connection link is established to the apparatus if the apparatus is capable of handling an application to use. If the apparatus is not capable of handling the application or if no apparatus responded, the transmission power is set higher to increase the number of the apparatuses to be searched and to retransmit the interrogation signal.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masanao Tsutsui