Patent ID: 7665040

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: an image data storage section for storing image data of a photographic image; a display unit having a display screen; a display control section for controlling the display unit to display the photographic image on the display screen based on the image data; a selection range specification section for specifying a selection range with respect to the photographic image displayed on the display screen; an image data acquisition section for acquiring the image data of the photographic image in the specified selection range to create a photographic icon corresponding to the photographic image as a spot location; a specific data storage section for storing specific data corresponding to a specific item, which indicates a spot; an input section allowing a user to input the specific item; a spot calculation section for obtaining the spot corresponding to the specific item inputted by the user via the input section; an image display position data storage section for storing image display position data indicating a position where a photographic image of spots are to be displayed; an image display position calculation section for obtaining the position where the photographic image of the spot obtained by the spot calculation section is to be displayed, based on the image display position data stored by the image display position data storage section; and a road map data storage section for storing road map data, wherein: the display control section controls the display unit to display a registration screen for determining whether the photographic icon is registered or not; the selection range specific section specifies the selection range based on the position obtained by the image display position calculation section to contain the photographic image of the spot obtained by the spot calculation section; the image data storage section further stores link data so that the image data is linked to the road map data stored by the road map data storage section; and the image data acquisition section acquires the link data when the image data acquisition section acquires the image data, wherein the display control section controls the display unit to display a road map on the display screen based on the road map data, and wherein the display control section controls the display unit to display on the road map, as the spot location, the photographic image of the image data acquired by the image data acquisition section based on the link data.