Apparatus and method for photographing information management

摘要

A photographing information management method, which includes: judging whether there is equality between photographing position information added to an image file stored in an external storage medium which is detachably attachable to an imaging apparatus and photographing position information stored in an internal memory of the imaging apparatus; and when it is judged that the two pieces of photographing position information have the equality, displaying an image and the photographing position information of the image file on a display screen of the imaging apparatus.

主权项

1. A photographing information management method, comprising:
generating a thumbnail image from an image file, wherein the image file includes a photographic image, photographing position information is added to the image file as meta information of the photographic image, and the image file is stored in an external storage medium; extracting the photographing position information, which is the meta information of the photographic image, from the image file; generating a thumbnail image file by adding the extracted photographing position information to the thumbnail image as the meta information of the thumbnail image; generating a text file including the extracted photographing position information of the thumbnail image; storing the generated thumbnail image file in the external storage medium, the generated thumbnail image being stored in association with the generated text file in a directory different from a directory were the image file to which the photographing position information is added is stored; storing the photographing position information extracted from the image file in the internal memory; judging whether there is equality between photographing position information added to an image file stored in the external storage medium which is detachably attached to an imaging apparatus and the photographing position information stored in the internal memory of the imaging apparatus; and when it is judged that the two pieces of photographing position information have the equality in the judging, displaying the thumbnail image and the photographing position information of the thumbnail image file on a display screen of the imaging apparatus, wherein the generated thumbnail image file is configured to remain in the external storage medium when the image file is deleted from the external storage medium.