Patent ID: 7990455

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a display component; and a control component that controls the display component so that a map including a photographing point of subjects is displayed, such that information representing photographing directions from the photographing point to the subjects and information representing the photographing point are graphically displayed at a position on the map corresponding to the photographing point, and when information representing a photographing direction that has been displayed on the map is selected and designated, an image corresponding to the selected and designated information is displayed, wherein, when image data of subjects that are desired by a user is not stored, the control component controls the display component such that information representing multiple photographing directions to the subjects that the user desires from a photographing point the user desires and information representing the photographing point are graphically displayed at a position on the map corresponding to the photographing point the user desires, wherein the photographing directions that the user desires and the photographing point the user desires are input by the user, and wherein the control component varies a display mode of the information representing the photographing directions and the information representing the photographing point between when image data of the subjects are stored and when the image data of the subject that the user desires have not been stored, wherein the display mode is varied by changing at least one of the shape, line type, and color of the graphic displayed, such that each display mode is visually distinguished from each other.