Patent ID: 8023006

Claim:
An electronic still camera comprising: a position-data acquisition unit which acquires self-position data representing the position of the electronic still camera; a storage unit which stores the self-position data as photography-site data, in association with image data acquired by photographing an object; a setting unit which sets, in the storage unit, the self-position data acquired by the position-data acquisition unit at a time different from a time of photographing the object, when the self-position data is not acquired at the time of photographing the object; a collating unit which collates the photography-site data with a database containing building-name data and position data of an entrance of a building; and a process control unit which performs at least one of a process of visualizing the building-name data and a process of storing the building-name data in the storage unit, when the time of photographing the object does not coincide with a time of acquiring the photography-site data and the photography-site data collated with the database is found to represent an entrance to the building.