Patent ID: 11864117
Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. An electronic device comprising:
a generation unit that generates data;
a reception unit that receives, from an external device, information related to a position, the information including first information and second information;
a storage unit that stores the first information and the second information related to the position received from the reception unit; and
a control unit that
correlates the data generated by the generation unit with the first information related to the position or the second information related to the position stored in the storage unit, wherein
the first information is obtained by the electronic device transmitting a request, to the external device, to transmit the first information,
the second information is obtained without the electronic device transmitting the request to the external device, and
the control unit transmits the request, to the external device, to transmit the first information related to the position, and correlates the data generated by the generation unit with the first information related to the position received by the reception unit after transmission of the request, depending on whether the second information was received after the electronic device entered a first state from a second state.