PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• Main Authors: NAKADOKORO SHOICHI, SHIBA HIDEKI, MORII TAKASHI, ENDO SHOZO, SONODA KEITA, CHOKAI HIROSHI, KUROKAWA SHINJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.02.2013
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately calculate positional information on a photographing device given to respective images which are continuously photographed.SOLUTION: Before starting and after finishing continuous photographing, a CPU 102 inputs "positioning information on a camera unit 101" obtained by a GPS unit 103. A memory control unit 115 obtains the positioning information on the camera unit 101 and stores it in a positional information memory 118. A positional information calculation unit 108 calculates a moving amount of the camera unit 101 in a photographing interval on the basis of acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor 106 and the photographing interval detected by a photographing interval detection unit 107. The positional information calculation unit 108 also calculates a vector sum of a position of the camera unit 101 in photographing immediately before and the moving amount of the camera unit 101 in the photographing interval so as to calculate the position of the camera unit 101 in the photographing.