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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Hideo Fushimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hideo Fushimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N005/222 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus has the capability of easily linking a stored image to another stored image. When an image is taken, link information indicating the linking relationship between the taken image and data to which the taken image is linked is generated. Also provided is a method of controlling such an image pickup apparatus and a storage medium storing a program according to which the image pickup apparatus is controlled.