Photo service system

• US 20050271257A1
• Filed: 05/26/2005
• Published: 12/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kurashima, Nobumitsu, Isomura, Ayumu, Suzuki, Ryo
• Granted Patent: US 7,889,381 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/118
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00249 with a photographic apparatus, e.g. a photographic printer or a projector photographic apparatus per se G03B, G03D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3271 Printing or stamping
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3276 of a customised additional information profile, e.g. a profile specific to a user ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

A photo service system according to the present invention is provided with: a first storage control device which stores unique visitor identification information stored in an IC chip of an admission ticket equipped with IC chip and a registered face image, a face image of a visitor who holds the admission ticket equipped with IC chip, in association with each other, in a first storage medium; an extraction device which extracts, from an original image taken with a visitor as an object, an extracted face image indicating a face portion of the visitor; a second storage control device which identifies a registered face image matching the extracted face image from the first storage medium, and stores visitor identification information corresponding to the identified registered face image and an extracted face image matching the identified registered face image in association with each other, in a second storage medium; a reading device which reads unique visitor identification information from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip; a composite device which creates a composite image in which an extracted face image corresponding to the visitor identification information read from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip and a predetermined template image are superimposed; and a printing device which prints the composite image.

Claims

1. A photo service system comprising:

a first storage control device which stores unique visitor identification information stored in an IC chip of an admission ticket equipped with IC chip and a registered face image, a face image of a visitor who holds the admission ticket equipped with IC chip, in association with each other, in a first storage medium;

an extraction device which extracts, from an original image taken with one or more visitors as an object, an extracted face image indicating a face portion of the visitor;

a second storage control device which identifies a registered face image matching the extracted face image from the first storage medium, and stores visitor identification information corresponding to the identified registered face image and an extracted face image matching the identified registered face image in association with each other, in a second storage medium;

a reading device which reads unique visitor identification information from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip;

a composite device which creates a composite image in which an extracted face image corresponding to the visitor identification information read from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip and a predetermined template image are superimposed; and

a printing device which prints the composite image.

2. The photo service system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a determination device which determines composite positions, positions where one or multiple extracted face images extracted from one original image are superimposed on the template image, wherein

the composite device superimposes the extracted face images at the determined composite positions.

3. The photo service system according to claim 2, wherein:

the determination device determines a composite position of an extracted face image corresponding to the visitor identification information read from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip to be a particular first composite position, and a composite position of an extracted face image not corresponding to the visitor identification information read from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip to be a second composite position other than the first composite position.

4. A photo service system comprising:

an extraction device which extracts a face image of each person from a taken image of a group in which faces of multiple persons are included;

a composite device which creates a composite image in which the extracted face images and a template image corresponding to attributes of the group are superimposed; and

a printing device which prints the composite image.

5. The photo service system according to claim 4, further comprising:

a storage device which stores group attributes and a template image in association with each other; and

a template image identification device which identifies group attributes from a taken group image and identifies a template image corresponding to the identified group attributes from the storage device, wherein

the composite device creates a composite image in which the face images and the identified template image are superimposed.

6. The photo service system according to claim 4, further comprising:

a composite position determination device which determines composite positions, positions where the face images and the template image are superimposed, based on attributes of the face images, wherein

the composite device superimposes the face images at the determined composite positions.

7. The photo service system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a composite position determination device which determines composite positions, positions where the face images and the template image are superimposed, based on attributes of the face images, wherein

the composite device superimposes the face images at the determined composite positions.

8. The photo service system according to of claim 4, further comprising:

an acquisition device which acquires identification information about the group, wherein

the printing device prints the acquired group identification information together with the composite image.

9. The photo service system according to claim 5, further comprising:

an acquisition device which acquires identification information about the group, wherein

the printing device prints the acquired group identification information together with the composite image.

10. The photo service system according to claim 6, further comprising:

an acquisition device which acquires identification information about the group, wherein

the printing device prints the acquired group identification information together with the composite image.

11. The photo service system according to claim 7, further comprising:

an acquisition device which acquires identification information about the group, wherein

the printing device prints the acquired group identification information together with the composite image.

12. The photo service system according to claim 8, further comprising:

an acquisition device which acquires identification information about the group, wherein

the printing device prints the acquired group identification information together with the composite image.

13. The photo service system according to claim 9, wherein

the printing device prints the group identification information on the back side of a printing surface of the composite image.

14. The photo service system according to claim 10, wherein

the printing device prints the group identification information on the back side of a printing surface of the composite image.

15. The photo service system according to claim 11, wherein

the printing device prints the group identification information on the back side of a printing surface of the composite image.