Patent ID: 8339477
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for detecting a name of a captured landmark, adapted to a digital camera, wherein the digital camera comprises an environmental condition capturer, a liquid crystal display (LCD) unit, and a map data table, and the map data table comprises a plurality of landmark names and a plurality of landmark coordinates corresponding to the landmark names, the method comprising: capturing an image, and obtaining a focusing distance, wherein the image comprises at least one of the captured landmark; capturing an environmental condition by the environmental condition capturer, wherein the environmental condition comprises shooting information and searching information, the shooting information comprises a shooting direction, a shooting angle, and a shooting coordinate, and the searching information comprises a horizontal search angle and a vertical search angle; obtaining a search focus range by increasing or decreasing the focusing distance by a specified distance, or by being set to a horizontal distance between the digital camera and a captured object; and looking up the map data table according to the search focus range and the shooting information to obtain an output coordinate corresponding to the captured landmark and the landmark name corresponding to the output coordinate, comprising: