Patent ID: 8264584

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus, comprising: an imaging unit configured to capture a digital image; an image-capturing position obtaining unit configured to obtain image-capturing position information indicating a position at which the digital image is captured; an image-capturing direction obtaining unit configured to obtain image-capturing direction information indicating a direction in which the digital image is captured; an additional-information obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of additional information from an additional-information storing device that stores the plurality of additional information, the plurality of additional information each corresponding to a predetermined object of a plurality of predetermined objects and each including object position information indicating a position of a corresponding one of the predetermined objects; a selecting unit configured to divide, into sub-fields, a view space determined from the image-capturing position information and the image-capturing direction information, and select, for each of the sub-fields, corresponding one or more of the plurality of additional information having a count not larger than a count that is set in a corresponding one of the sub-fields, from among the plurality of additional information including a plurality of object position information respectively indicating the positions included in the sub-fields; and a display unit configured to display the corresponding one or more of the plurality of additional information overlaid on the digital image, the corresponding one or more of the plurality of additional information being selected by said selecting unit, wherein the sub-fields are fields obtained by dividing the view space according to a distance from the position indicated by the image-capturing position information, wherein the image capturing apparatus further comprises a zoom ratio obtaining unit configured to obtain zoom ratio information indicating a zoom ratio used when said imaging unit captures the digital image, and wherein said selecting unit is configured: to select at least one of the sub-fields according to the zoom ratio indicated by the zoom ratio information, from among the sub-fields, to select a corresponding one of the plurality of additional information to be displayed and having the count not larger than the count that is set, in the selected one of the sub-fields, and not to select any of the plurality of additional information to be displayed in the sub-fields other than the selected one of the sub-fields; and to select a corresponding one of the sub-fields that is more distant from the position indicated by the image-capturing position information, as the zoom ratio indicated by the zoom ratio information is higher.