US 6,983,100 B2
Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium
Hiroyuki Bando, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 14, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/78,414.
Application 11/078414 is a continuation of application No. 09/661994, filed on Sep. 14, 2000, granted, now 6,871,004.
Claims priority of application No. P11-264658 (JP), filed on Sep. 17, 1999.
Prior Publication US 2005/0152674 A1, Jul. 14, 2005
Int. Cl. H04N 5/91 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 386—66 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing method comprising the steps of:
storing measured position information in a first storage medium of a first device, the measured position information being in association with first time information representing times of day at which said measured position information is obtained;
storing video information in a second storage medium of a second device, the video information being in association with second time information representing times of day at which said video information is obtained;
downloading said measured position information to a third storage medium of a third device;
downloading said video information to said third storage medium of said third device; and
associating said measured position information with said video information in accordance with degrees of difference between said first time information and said second time information;
wherein said step of associating said measured position information with said video information includes the steps of,
obtaining the first time information closest to said second time information, and
associating said video information with the measured position information corresponding to the first time information thus obtained.