JPH0926330A - Recording apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a recording apparatus by which place information about a place can be recorded easily together with date and time at a present point. SOLUTION: The recording apparatus is provided with a positioning and measuring means 12 which measures its own position, date and time, a map database 16 in which information on a map has been stored, a selection means 14 by which the information on the map corresponding to its own position obtained from the positioning and measuring means 12 is selected automatically from the map database 16, and a control means 8 by which the information on the map corresponding to the date, the time and/or its own position is recorded on a recording medium.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recording device for recording information relating to the date, time, and place of a current location.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a recording device such as a camera or a VTR is provided with a clock circuit in the device to count the time. This time is overwritten on the film by the camera, and by the superimpose processing operation, it is recorded and saved on the magnetic tape in the VTR together with the processed image of the VTR, and the time recorded when the magnetic tape is reproduced is displayed at the same time. I am trying to do it. As described above, since the recording time is displayed together with the recorded image when the magnetic tape such as the film or VTR of the camera is reproduced, it is possible to easily know the time at the time of photographing.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional recording apparatus, since the time counted by the clock circuit incorporated in the apparatus is recorded as it is with the image, for example, when moving to a place with a time difference. May occur when the captured video does not match the time. In this case, there is an inconvenience that a troublesome time adjustment for matching each time is required. Furthermore, the above-mentioned conventional recording device cannot record the location information, for example, the location name.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides an excellent recording apparatus in which information relating to the place can be easily recorded together with the date and time of the current location and the convenience of use thereof is improved. To aim.

[0005]

A recording apparatus of the present invention comprises a positioning measuring means for measuring a self position, a date, and a time.
A map database storing information on the map, a selecting means for automatically selecting information on the map corresponding to the self-position obtained from the positioning measuring means from the map database, and the date, time and / or A control means for recording the information on the map corresponding to the self position on the recording medium is provided.

According to the recording apparatus of the present invention, the self position, the date and time of the self position are continuously measured, and the information on the map corresponding to the measured self position, for example, the country name, the city, etc. The name is automatically selected, and the information on this map and the date and time of the user's position are selectively recorded, making it easy to obtain location information related to the date, time and place of the current location. Can be recorded on the screen and the convenience of use can be improved.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The structure of an embodiment of a recording apparatus of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The example shown in FIG. 1 includes an 8 mm video device 8. The 8 mm video device 8 includes a CCD photographing device 10 and the CCD photographing device 10.
And a video recording processing unit 20 which supplies an image pickup output signal from the. As is well known, the video recording processing section 20 can record the video imaged by the CCD imaging device 10 on a magnetic tape.

Further known GPS receiver 1 for GPS (Global Positioning System)
This GPS receiver 12 is equipped with a connected antenna 1
GPS waves Wa, Wb, W of 4 waves from the satellite by 2a
c and Wd are received, and the latitude, longitude, altitude absolute coordinate and time information of the reception position, and ground absolute speed information are output. The measurement error on the map due to this position information is, for example, 10 m.

Further, a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and an I / O for supplying position information (signal) from the GPS receiver 12 are provided.
A microprocessor (MPU) 14 provided with O is provided, and in this MPU 14, information such as a country name corresponding to the position information from the GPS receiver 12, a place name such as a city name, and summer time is stored in advance. For example, an IC card, a CD or the like is used as an information recording medium, and a map database 16 provided with a character generator that stores characters of position information such as country name and city name is provided.

In addition to the place names stored in the map database 16, measurement errors on the map due to the position information measured by the GPS receiver 12, for example, place information subdivided into building names, park names, etc., which are divided in units of 10 m are displayed. It can also be stored. In this case, it suffices to prepare in advance a plurality of information recording media that store information such as rough city names and buildings and park names corresponding to the city names.

The MPU 14 is connected with an operation unit 18 for performing an operation of selecting and displaying a place name related to a photographing place together with a desired date and time and date.

Further, the MPU 14 has a data display processing unit 2
2 is connected, and in this data display processing unit 22,
It is set in the MPU 14 from the operation unit 18 and relates to the date and time information of the desired current position from the GPS receiver 12 captured by the MPU 14, or the shooting location captured from the MPU 14 by searching the map database 16. The place name (country name, city name, building name, park name, etc.) is superimposed on the video recording processing unit 20 based on the setting of the operation unit 18.
Generate a signal for recording at and send it.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described. In the GPS receiver 12, three or four GPS radio waves Wa, Wb, W from the satellite are transmitted by the connected antenna 12a.
c, (Wd) is received, and the position information of the latitude, longitude, altitude and time of this reception position is output. This information is MPU
14.

Further, the MPU 14 is previously operated from the operation unit 18.
The contents to be recorded together with the photographed image in the image recording processing unit 20, here, any one or all of the photographing place name, the photographing date, the photographing local time, are taken in, and the control processing is performed. An image pickup signal is supplied from the CCD image pickup device 10 to the video recording processing section 20 and recorded on the attached magnetic tape.

Then, in response to a simultaneous recording instruction from the operation unit 18, the MPU 14 searches the place name stored in the map database 16 based on the position information of the longitude and latitude measured by the GPS receiver 12, and fetches the place name. . At the same time, the date and time of the current point are fetched and supplied to the data display processing unit 22, and the information (signal) of this place name, date and time of the current point, and time can be superimposed on the video recording processing unit 20. The signal is processed and output. The output signal from the data display processing unit 22 is supplied to the video recording processing unit 20, superimposed on the image pickup screen and recorded on the magnetic tape.

FIG. 2 shows this recording screen. In this recording screen example, along with the landscape photographed image M, a place name [in Rome], a photographing date [XXXXX, 10,
2] and the local time [10:30] are recorded.

In this way, the GPS receiver 12 continuously measures the self position, the date and time of the self position,
The photographed place name corresponding to the measured self position, here the city name [in Rome] is searched and automatically recorded in the map database 16, and the date and time of the measured photographed position [, 10, 2] and the local time [10:30] are selectively recorded simultaneously in the video such as the captured video,
It becomes possible to easily record the position information related to the shooting location together with the video together with the date and time of the current location. Therefore, the troublesome work such as writing the name of the shooting place on the label or the like of each taken magnetic tape becomes unnecessary, and the convenience of use is improved.

In the above-described embodiment, the photographing time and the photographing place name are recorded from the two-dimensional position, that is, the longitude and the latitude. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the altitude information from the GPS receiver 12 is used for photographing. The place can be recorded in the sky, that is, in the place of [in Rome] in FIG. 2 instead of [in Rome]. In this case, it is possible to set the use of altitude information when recording the shooting location name in advance from the operation unit 18,
Further, the character [sky] may be set in the map database 16.

Further, information such as summer time may be stored in the map database 16 in advance and the time adjusted based on this summer time information may be recorded. In the above-mentioned embodiment, the position information relating to the date, time, and shooting location of the current location is superimposed on the image shot by the 8 mm video device 8. However, the present invention is not limited to this and is applied to a general camera. Then, it is possible to record the date, time, and position information on the shooting location of the current location on the film. It can also be applied to an electronic still camera.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and it goes without saying that various other configurations can be adopted without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[0021]

As can be understood from the above description, according to the recording apparatus of the present invention, the self position, the date and time of the self position are continuously measured, and the self position is measured. Since the information on the map, for example, the place name is automatically selected, and the information on this map, the date and time of the self position are selectively recorded at the same time, the date, time and time of the current location At the same time, it becomes possible to easily record the position information related to the place, which has the effect of improving the convenience of use.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a recording apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a state of a recorded image in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 CCD imager, 12 GPS receiver, 12a
Antenna, 14 MPU, 16 map database, 1
8 operation unit, 20 video recording processing unit, 22 data display processing unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A positioning measurement means for measuring a self position, a date, and a time, a map database storing information on a map, and information on a map corresponding to the self position obtained from the positioning measurement means. A recording device comprising: a selection unit that automatically selects from a map database; and a control unit that records information on a map corresponding to the date, time, and / or the self-position on a recording medium. 2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the positioning measuring means is a GPS receiver.