Patent ID: 8928584
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A display apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to sequentially pick up an image; a display section to display the image picked up by the image pickup section; an instruction section to receive an input of an instruction signal for marking an object, the object being included in the image displayed by the display section and being displayed at a predetermined position of the display section; a position specification section to specify a position of the display apparatus; a direction specification section to specify a pickup direction of the image pickup section; a specification section to specify a position of the marked object relative to the position of the display apparatus at a time of the input of the instruction signal, based on the position of the display apparatus specified by the position specification section at the time of the input of the instruction signal, and based on the pickup direction specified by the direction specification section at the time of the input of the instruction signal, in response to the input of the instruction signal from the instruction section; an amount-of-change measuring section to measure an amount of change in the position of the display apparatus and the pickup direction, from the time of the input of the instruction signal, the change being associated with movement of the display apparatus, by comparing (i) a reference position and a reference image pick up direction of the display apparatus to (ii) a current position and a current image pick up direction of the display apparatus; a reporting section to report the position of the marked object in accordance with a specification result of the specification section; and a renewing section to renew the position of the marked object depending on a measurement result of the amount-of-change measuring section, and to renew a report reported by the reporting section depending on the renewed position.