Sep 28 2010
Casio claims In-door Positioning in Exilim-H20G camera
At the Photokina trade show in Germany, Casio presents its first GPS-enabled camera that claims to be able to geo-tag pictures indoors. The EX-H20G is equipped with GPS and a dead reckoning system.
As Casio’s press release sayid, “Even if no signals are received from GPS satellites when indoors, the system consecutively tracks the user’s location by employing an original algorithm using a three-way accelerometer and a three-way direction sensor. When the user goes back outside, the system automatically updates the positional information of the indoor location based on the exact location determined by GPS reception.”
In addition, “Even when the camera is powered off, the GPS system continues to search for satellite signals at 10 minute intervals.”
According to Casio this system does not compromise the battery life of the camera.
