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Camera utilizing a satellite positioning system

US5913078A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 15, 1997
Grant dateJun 15, 1999
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Expiry dateAug 15, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/3253
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a camera for receiving an electric wave including position information from a satellite of Global Positioning System and for recording a photographing position together with a photographed image, wherein a photographing attitude of the camera is arbitrarily changed in accordance with an image to be photographed, the camera comprises an enabling device to make the receiving of the electric wave through an antenna possible regardless of the photographing attitude of the camera.

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