Patent ID: 7046285
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital photographing apparatus, portably structured, for recording a photographed digital picture signal to a recording medium and reproducing a digital picture signal from the recording medium, comprising: photographing means for photographing a picture and outputting a picture signal; signal processing means for processing the picture signal supplied from said photographing means to produce a digital picture signal; position information obtaining means for obtaining position information, the position information including global position information; displaying means for displaying the digital picture signal supplied from said signal processing means; recording means for writing to the recording medium data comprising data relating to both the digital picture signal supplied from said signal processing means and the position information supplied from said position information obtaining means, said digital picture signal being recorded as a picture file and said position information being recorded as a position information file, said recording means associating data relating to the digital picture signal and data relating to the position information; reproducing means for reproducing the digital picture signal and the position information from the recording medium; map information obtaining means for obtaining map information comprising range information defining a set of boundary points of a map, thereby enabling a user of the digital photographing apparatus to choose a part of the map using the range information; table creating means for creating a table that associates the position information file with said map information and said picture file; and controlling means for referencing the table to display on said displaying means an icon corresponding to the position information on a part of the map chosen by the user, the controlling means operable to determine the number of icons in the part of the map chosen by the user, determine the icon closest to the center of the part of the map chosen by the user, change at least one attribute of the icon closest to said center, and allow the user to decide whether the icon closest to said center of the part of the map chosen by the user is the desired icon; and wherein the table creating means creates the table using at least one position information file, the table indicating correspondence relation between the obtained position information and the picture file; and whereby when the user decides that the icon closest to said center is the desired icon a picture from the picture file, at a location corresponding to said icon, is displayed.