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Patent No.:

US 8554017 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 24, 2010
Applicant:

Ryunosuke Oda, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Ryunosuke Oda, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G01C 9/00 (2006.01); G01C 17/00 (2006.01); G01C 19/00 (2013.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 9/74 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes: an orientation sensor that detects orientation representing the direction in which the imaging apparatus is oriented; a controller that produces data formed of a captured image and attribute information associated with the captured image and records the data in a recording section; and the recording section that stores a captured image and attribute information, wherein the controller successively records an entry in a memory, the entry relating orientation information calculated by successively receiving a value detected with the orientation sensor to a time stamp representing the time at which the detected value is inputted from the orientation sensor, extracts a plurality of entries having time stamps close to the time at which the image was captured from the entries recorded in the memory, and calculates orientation information representing the direction in which the image was captured by using the plurality of pieces of orientation information in the extracted entries.


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