Image-capturing and image-distributing system for automatically or manually capturing image of user carrying mobile communication terminal

• US 10,142,534 B2
• Filed: 08/06/2015
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bianconero, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Bianconero, Inc.
• Inventors: Kuroishi, Tomonobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Nhan T
• Application Number:
  US15/522,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20170318215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,209 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 11/06 using intensity measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0252 Radio frequency fingerprinting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0492 by using a location-limited connection, e.g. near-field communication or limited proximity of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/00 Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers subscriber services or facilities provided at exchanges H04M3/00; prepayment telephone coin boxes H04M17/00; current supply arrangements H04M19/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/00 Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/274 Storing end-user multimedia data in response to end-user request , e.g. network recorder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A system and a method in which image-capturing is effected automatically or manually. When a user-carried mobile terminal receives a near field wireless signal from a near field wireless signal transmitting station installed in an image-capturing field area, it is determined that a user is present within the image-capturing field of the externally installed image-capturing device and the user-carried communication terminal transmits automatically or manually an image-capturing request to the externally installed image-capturing device. In response, the externally installed image-capturing device effects image-capturing and then transmits the obtained image to an image server. After transmission of the image-capturing request, the user-carried mobile communication terminal makes a downloading request to the image server and effects downloading via a network and the downloaded data is automatically stored within the user-carried mobile communication terminal.

Claims

1. An image-capturing and image-distributing system comprising:

a near field wireless signal transmitting station;

a user-carried mobile communication terminal;

an image-capturing device associated with an image-capturing area; and

an image server;

wherein the near field wireless signal transmitting station is configured to;

transmit a near field wireless signal containing encrypted image-capturing condition information via a near field wireless communication in order to identify that a user has entered the image-capturing area;

wherein the user carried mobile communication terminal is configured to;

receive and decrypt the near field wireless signal containing the encrypted image-capturing condition information,

determine that the user has entered the image-capturing area based on the near field wireless signal containing the encrypted image-capturing condition information, and

transmit an image-capturing request including a user presence area within the image-capturing area to the image-capturing device based on determining that the user has entered the image-capturing area;

wherein the image-capturing device is configured to;

capture an image of the user presence area based on the image-capturing request, and

transmit acquired image data associated with the image to the image server;

wherein the image server is configured to;

store the acquired image data in correlation with an image-capturing location and an image-capturing time/date, and

transmit the acquired image data to the user-carried mobile communication terminal in response to receiving a download request from the user-carried mobile communication terminal which designates the image-capturing location and the image-capturing time/date.

2. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the image-capturing device includes the near field wireless signal transmitting station.

3. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the image-capturing device includes the image server.

4. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the image server is further configured to transmit the acquired image data to a cloud storage in response to receiving a cloud-storage request from the user-carried communication terminal.

5. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the near field wireless signal transmitting station is further configured to generate the encrypted image-capturing condition information dynamically.

7. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the user-carried mobile communication device is further configured to determine that the user has entered the image capturing area is based on a comparison between an image-capturing field intensity recorded within the near field wireless signal and a received field intensity of the near field wireless signal received by the user carrier mobile communication terminal.

6. A method comprising:

transmitting, with a near field wireless signal transmitting station via a near field wireless communication, a near field wireless signal containing encrypted image-capturing condition information in order to identify that a user has entered an image-capturing area;

receiving and decrypting, with a user-carried mobile communication terminal, the near field wireless signal containing the encrypted image-capturing condition information;

determining, with the user-carried mobile communication terminal, that the user has entered the image-capturing area based on the near field wireless signal containing the encrypted image-capturing condition information;

transmitting, with the user-carried mobile communication terminal, an image-capturing request including a user presence area within the image-capturing area to an image-capturing device associated with the image-capturing area based on determining that the user has entered the image capturing area;

capturing, with the image capturing device, an image of the user presence area based on the image-capturing request;

transmitting, with the image capturing device, acquired image data associated with the image to an image server;

storing, with the image server, the acquired image data in correlation with an image-capturing location and an image-capturing time/date; and

transmitting, with the image server, the acquired image data to the user-carried mobile communication terminal in response to receiving a download request from the user-carried mobile communication terminal which designates the image-capturing location and the image-capturing time/date.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein determining that the user has entered the image capturing area is based on a comparison between an image-capturing field intensity recorded within the near field wireless signal and a received field intensity of the near field wireless signal received by the user carrier mobile communication terminal.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the image-capturing device includes the near field wireless signal transmitting station.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the image-capturing device includes the image server.