Patent ID: 7453491

Claim:
A shooting equipment communicating system including portable shooting equipment and mobile communications equipment which is moved together with the portable shooting equipment and communicates with said portable shooting equipment, wherein: said mobile communications equipment comprises: a database section for storing map data, location information about regions and sites included in a map represented by the map data, and region-/site-related information comprising descriptive information about the regions and the sites identified by the location information, the region-/site-related information being other than the map data and the location information; and a retrieving section for retrieving the relevant region-/site-related information from the database section depending on the input location information; and transmits the region-/site-related information retrieved by the retrieving section to said portable shooting equipment; and said portable shooting equipment comprises a shooting section for performing photography shooting of a subject and a storage section for receiving and storing the region-/site-related information retrieved by said retrieving section; and said shooting section has a display for displaying at least one of the subject taken and information selected from the region-/site-related information stored in said storage section; and wherein the retrieving section retrieves the relevant region-/site-related information in order of importance; and wherein the database section stores the region-/site-related information in a hierarchical structure of ranks of importance.