Method of management of pictures and method of recording pictures of animals

• US 20040119831A1
• Filed: 09/19/2003
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Surge Miyawaki Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Surge Miyawaki Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Miyawaki, Yutaka
• Application Number:
  US10/472,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20040119831A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.99
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 11/00 Marking of animals marking poultry or other birds A01K35/00
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 11/006 Automatic identification systems for animals, e.g. electronic devices, transponders for animals identification systems for access to feeding pens A01K1/0209; ear tags with electronic identification means A01K11/004
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 29/00 Other apparatus for animal husbandry
• 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: G06K 17/0022 arrangements or provisious for transferring data to distant stations, e.g. from a sensing device "transfer between computer elements G06F13/00 "; data-transmission H04L

Abstract

A digital picture is obtained of an animal together with a barcode. By reading the individual identification code of an animal from this digital picture, it becomes possible to quickly and accurately manage pictures of animals. When photographing the unique, photographable part of an animal together with a barcode recording individual identification data of the animal by a digital camera etc. to obtain a digital picture and storing the digital pictures of the obtained animals from a recording medium to the storage medium of a computer for management together with file names, computer software reads the barcode from the digital picture or by reading the screen display of the computer or printed image by a barcode reader and prepares a file name for the digital picture based on the individual identification information of the animal recorded in the barcode.

Claims

1. A method of managing animals by pictures comprising photographing a unique, photographable part of an animal and a barcode recording individual identification information of the animal together or separately to obtain a digital picture and managing obtained digital pictures of animals recorded together with file names in a storage medium, at which time reading the barcode from the digital picture and preparing a file name of the digital picture based on the individual identification data of the animal recorded on the barcode.

2. A method of management of pictures of animals as set forth in claim 1, comprising, when photographing an animal together with a barcode recording individual identification data of the animal, photographing the barcode placed at a predetermined specific position, reading the barcode from the digital picture, and analyzing by software the digital data of an address corresponding to a specific position of the storage area of the storage medium.

3. A method of management of pictures of animals as set forth in claim 1, comprising a step of reading the barcode from the digital picture and scanning the picture data of the digital picture in the vertical direction, horizontal direction, and slanted direction to obtain a predetermined number of data strings, a step of searching for whether there is a specific data string expressing characteristics of a barcode in the obtained data strings, and a step of analyzing a data string when finding a data string expressing the barcode in the read data strings to read the content of the barcode.

6. A method of management of pictures of animals as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the part where the individual identification data of the animal is recorded in the file name prepared based on the individual identification data of the animal read from the barcode is made impossible to rewrite or it is made possible to confirm that the fact that it is an original picture is certified.

7. A method of management of pictures of animals as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the storage medium is a database connected to a computer of a management organization of a specific region and the digital picture of an animal having a file name attached prepared based on the individual identification data of the animal read from the barcode is recorded in a management ledger of the database.

8. A management method of animals as set forth in claim 7, wherein the management ledger is made public so that it may be jointly used on a computer network connected to the database.

9. A method of management of pictures of animals as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the file name is a file name showing a photograph number in a digital picture photographic apparatus for photographing animals having a barcode reading function.

13. A method of management of pictures for managing animals by pictures as set forth in any of claims 1 to 12 and a method of recording pictures for managing objects by pictures, comprising, when obtaining a digital picture of an animal or object, including in the digital picture electronic tamperproof data preventing rewriting of digital data in the digital picture or showing that the digital data has been rewritten.

14. A method of management of pictures of animals as set forth in claim 2, wherein, when placing the barcode recording the individual identification data of an animal at a predetermined specific position and photographing this together with the animal, using a multifocus camera able to focus on at least two barcodes and locations of animals.

4. A method of using a data processing apparatus to manage animals by pictures, comprising photographing an animal and a barcode recording individual identification information of the animal together or separately to obtain a digital picture and managing obtained digital pictures of animals in a data processing apparatus recorded together with file names on a storage medium, at which time displaying a digital picture on a display unit of the data processing apparatus, reading the barcode from the displayed digital picture by a barcode reader to input that data to the data processing apparatus, and preparing a file name of that digital picture recorded on a storage medium based on the individual identification data of the input animal.

5. A method of using a data processing apparatus to manage animals by pictures, comprising photographing an animal and a barcode recording individual identification information of the animal together or separately to obtain a digital picture and managing obtained digital pictures of animals in a data processing apparatus recorded together with file names on a storage medium, at which time printing the digital picture, reading the barcode in the printed picture by a barcode reader to input that data to the data processing apparatus, and preparing a file name of that digital picture recorded on a storage medium based on the individual identification data of the input animal.

10. A method of management of pictures comprising photographing a certain object together with a barcode recording identification data of that object together or separately to obtain a digital picture and storing obtained digital pictures together with file names in a storage medium, at which time reading a barcode from the digital picture or from a separately imaged barcode picture and incorporating a file name of that digital picture into at least part of the data recorded in the read barcode to prepare a file name.

11. A method of management of pictures comprising photographing a certain object together with a barcode recording identification data of that object together or separately to obtain a digital picture, displaying the obtained digital pictures on a display unit, reading a barcode from the displayed picture by a barcode reader, and recording and storing the photographed digital pictures together with file names in a storage medium, at which time incorporating a file name of a digital picture into at least part of the data recorded in the barcode read by the barcode reader to prepare a file name.

12. A method of managing animals by pictures comprising photographing a unique, photographable part of an animal by photographing a number or letters expressing individual identification data of that animal placed so as to be shot at a specific predetermined position of the photographed picture to obtain a digital picture and managing obtained digital pictures of animals recorded together with file names in a storage medium, at which time reading the number or letters expressing the individual identification data from a digital picture by an OCR function of software and preparing a file name of the digital picture based on individual identification data of an animal recorded in the read number or letters.