Image processing system and image processing method

• US 10,459,968 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2017
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kuroki, Tsuyoshi, Kiura, Mikio, Matsugu, Masakazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Kholdebarin, Iman K
• Application Number:
  US15/470,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20170199899A1
• Time in Patent Office: 946 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/30 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

An image processing system comprises: an image recognizing unit which performs image recognition to an image; a rule setting unit which sets a sorting rule to be used in case of transmitting the image recognized by the image recognizing unit to an external web service; and a transmitting unit which transmits, according to the sorting rule having a condition conforming to the image among the sorting rules set by the rule setting unit, information concerning the image to the corresponding external web service, thereby enabling to cooperate a still image/moving image sharing service and various web services with others.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, which is connected with an imaging device via a network and connected to a plurality of external social networking web services, the information processing apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory storing a plurality of sorting rules each defining an action to be executed on an image and a condition for executing the action and instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, causes the information processing apparatus to;

receive an image from the imaging device via the network;

recognize the received image by performing image recognition to obtain text data associated with the received image;

select a sorting rule in which the condition is satisfied by the received image and the associated text data satisfies, from the plurality of sorting rules stored in the memory;

perform an action defined in the selected sorting rule, on at least one of the received image and the associated text data;

display, on a display, the plurality of external social networking web services to which the received image is to be transmitted;

accept an input of an external social networking web service selected by a user of the information processing apparatus from among the displayed plurality of external social networking web services; and

transmit the image associated with the text data to the external social networking web service selected by the user of the information processing apparatus.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the plurality of external social networking web services are selected by the user of the information processing apparatus, the execution of the instructions by the one or more processors further causes the information processing apparatus to accept inputs of the plurality of selected external social networking web services.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the execution of the instructions by the one or more processors further causes the information processing apparatus to display the plurality of external social networking web services when for each of which a usability ratio by another user is equal to or higher than a predetermined level.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the execution of the instructions by the one or more processors further causes the information processing apparatus to display the plurality of external social networking web services based on at least one of a time and a position that the image is captured.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the execution of the instructions by the one or more processors further causes the information processing apparatus to confirm the accepted external social networking web service.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where a predetermined operation is performed by the user of the information processing apparatus on a menu screen of the external social networking web service, the execution of the instructions by the one or more processors further causes the information processing apparatus to display the plurality of external social networking web services.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the execution of the instructions by the one or more processors further causes the information processing apparatus to:

capture the image; and

input the captured image.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus includes a cellular phone.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the execution of the instructions by the one or more processors further causes the information processing apparatus to convert resolution of the received image.

9. An information processing method for an information processing apparatus, which is connected with an imaging device via a network and connected to a plurality of external social networking web services, the information processing method comprising:

receiving an image from the imaging device via the network;

recognizing the received image by performing image recognition to obtain text data associated with the received image;

selecting a sorting rule in which a condition is satisfied by the received image and the associated text data satisfies, from a plurality of sorting rules, stored in a memory, each defining an action to be executed on an image and a condition for executing the action;

performing an action defined in the selected sorting rule, on at least one of the received image and the associated text data;

displaying, on a display, the plurality of external social networking web services to which the received image is to be transmitted;

accepting an input of an external social networking web service selected by a user of the information processing apparatus from among the displayed plurality of external social networking web services; and

transmitting the image associated with the text data to the external social networking web service selected by the user of the information processing apparatus.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for controlling a computer which is connected with an imaging device via a network and connected to a plurality of external social networking web services to execute a method comprising:

receiving an image from the imaging device via the network;

recognizing the received image by image recognition to obtain text data associated with the received image;

selecting a sorting rule in which a condition is satisfied by the received image and the associated text data satisfies, from a plurality of sorting rules, stored in a memory, each defining an action to be executed on an image and a condition for executing the action;

performing an action defined in the selected sorting rule, on at least one of the received image and the associated text data;

displaying, on a display, a plurality of external social networking web services to which the received image is to be transmitted;

accepting an input of an external social networking web service selected by a user of the computer from among the displayed plurality of external social networking web services; and

transmitting the image associated with the text data to the external social networking web service selected by the user of the computer.