Guide information providing system using time information

    公开(公告)号:GB2455436A

    公开(公告)日:2009-06-17

    申请号:GB0820531

    申请日:2008-11-10

    Applicant: SONY CORP

    Abstract: A guide information providing system including terminal 1 and server 2 devices. The terminal device comprises a specified location acceptance unit to accept input of a specified location and a display unit to display information. The server device comprises a storing unit to store guide information, including time information and optionally genre information, and position information, of an object of guiding. An information selecting unit is provided to select guide information correlated with position information indicating a position corresponding to the specified location based on the content of specified location information, whereby the guide information is classified by position, and whereby the selected guide information satisfies a time condition with at least the current time-of-day and thereafter as a reference. A display control unit in the terminal device is configured to control the display unit to provide the guide information selected by the information selecting unit, and position information correlated with the guide information thereof, to a user in a predetermined display format. The expected arrival time may also be used as a reference for the time condition used for selecting guide information.

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    公开(公告)号:DE102008053671A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-05-07

    申请号:DE102008053671

    申请日:2008-10-29

    Applicant: SONY CORP

    Abstract: A photographic apparatus infers a user's photographic intent and accordingly switches between a manual shoot mode and an automatic shoot mode. In the manual shoot mode, processing to save photographic image data is timed in accordance with the user operating a user-operable shutter element, while in the automatic shoot mode, such processing is conducted independently of shutter element operations. A photographic unit photographs a scene, acquires photographic image data of a subject, and then executes processing for saving the photographic image data. An intention judgment information detector detects intention judgment information used to judge the photographic intent of the user. A controller makes an intention judgment using the intention judgment information from the intention judgment information detector, and according to the intention judgment result, causes the photographic unit to selectively execute the operations for one of the modes.

    Position-dependent image capture
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    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:GB2452124A

    公开(公告)日:2009-02-25

    申请号:GB0812917

    申请日:2008-07-15

    Applicant: SONY CORP

    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for position-dependent image capture comprises imaging means/camera 3 and position detector 10 for detecting a user's present position. Concurrent image and position data may be captured and stored in storage unit 8 which may be a fixed memory or hard disk drive (HDD). An activity history is monitored such that when the apparatus is determined to have returned to a previously visited position, a control means 2 is able to influence image capture settings of the camera. For example, this may include a change in image size, quality or capture time interval, frame rate, or an instruction not to capture an image. Thereby, unnecessary usage of storage media is avoided by either preventing repetitive image capture of the same position, or by reducing storage demands by minimising the image data content stored.

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