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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Masaharu Tosa, Kato-gun, JP;
Masaharu Tosa, Kato-gun, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an electronic device such as mobile terminal devices with a photographing function, and in the case where a photographing target is a person, enhances its function for protecting the photographing target from being photographed without consent by such as spy shots. This can be realized by an electronic device with a photographing function (mobile terminal devicePDAdigital camera) comprising a target judging part (photographing control part) for judging whether the photographing target is a person or not; a photographing inquiry part (photographing approval/disapproval inquiry part) for issuing an inquiry information for approval/disapproval of the photographing based on the judgment result of the target judging part if the target is a person and making an inquiry for the target about whether the photographing is approved or not with the inquiry information; a response information acquisition part () for acquiring a response information issued from the target; and a photographing control part () for outputting in response to the inquiry information either a photographing approval information representing an approval of photographing the target or a photographing prohibition information representing a ban of photographing the target, based on the response information the response information acquisition part has acquired.