Patent ID: 8264570

Claim:
A location name registration apparatus comprising: reception means for receiving, from a picture-taking apparatus, a plurality of picture data, each picture data including an image of an object taken by the picture-taking apparatus, some of the plurality of picture data including picture-taking location information corresponding to a latitude and longitude of a picture-taking location acquired when the some of the plurality of picture data were taken, the some of the plurality of picture data including object location information corresponding to a latitude and longitude of the object, and at least one of the plurality of picture data not including picture-taking location information and object location information; location name acquisition means for acquiring, from a location name storage unit, a picture-taking location name of the picture-taking location for each of the some of the plurality of picture data in accordance with the picture-taking location information, and acquiring, from the location name storage unit, an object location name of the object location for each of the some of the plurality of picture data in accordance with the object location information; a processor that generates a graphical user interface that includes a list of candidate picture-taking location names and object location names for the at least one of the plurality of picture data not including the picture-taking location information and not including the object location information, said list of candidates being taken only from the picture-taking location names and object location names for the some of the plurality of picture data, wherein the processor receives an instruction that identifies, from the list of candidates, the picture-taking location name and the object location name for the at least one of the plurality of picture data not including the picture-taking location information and not including the object location information; and location name registration means for registering, for each of the plurality of picture data, the picture-taking location name, the object location name, and the picture data in association with each other in predetermined storage unit.