Photographed Information Management System and Method Thereof, and Photographed Information Search System

• US 20080195637A1
• Filed: 12/15/2005
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Yano, Yoshihiro, Anegawa, Takehiko
• Application Number:
  US11/721,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20080195637A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19695 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4182 for identification purposes, e.g. storing user identification data, preferences, personal settings or data restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code in combination with an additional device, e.g. dongle or smart card G06F21/123
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9206 the additional signal being a character code signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

An image information management system includes: a storage medium on which peculiar information is stored; a reading device which reads the peculiar information stored on the storage medium; an image imaging device which shoots a video of a vicinity of a place at which the reading device is provided when the peculiar information stored on the storage medium is read by the reading device; and a processing device which associates, with the peculiar information, image information shot with using the imaging device in a constant time including a time point at which the reading device reads the peculiar information, and registers them in a storage unit. The image information management system reads the peculiar information stored on the storage medium, and associates the peculiar information with the picture information to store them in the storage unit. Then, based on the peculiar information, the image information management system chooses the picture information associated with the peculiar information and stored on the storage unit, and displays it on a display.

Claims

1. An image information management system comprising:

a storage medium on which peculiar information is stored;

a reading device which reads the peculiar information stored on the storage medium;

an imaging device which shoots a video of a vicinity of a place at which the reading device is provided when the peculiar information stored on the storage medium is read by the reading device; and

a processing device which associates, with the peculiar information and a place at which the imaging device is located, image information shot with using the imaging device in a constant time including a time point at which the reading device reads the peculiar information, and registers the image information and the peculiar information in a storage unit,

wherein the processing device includes a search unit which searches the image information based on input of the peculiar information or the place.

2. The image information management system according to claim 1, wherein the imaging device starts shooting when the reading device reads the peculiar information stored on the storage medium.

3. The image information management system according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium is used for the purpose of possession by a person, and the peculiar information is ID information capable of specifying an owner of the storage medium.

4. The image information management system according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium is a non-contact IC tag attached to an article.

5. An image information management method comprising:

a step which reads peculiar information stored on a storage medium;

a step which shoots a video of a vicinity of a place at which a reading device of the peculiar information is provided;

a step which associates the peculiar information with image information shot in a constant time including a time point at which the peculiar information is read, and stores the image information and the peculiar information in a storage unit; and

a step which, based on the peculiar information, chooses the image information associated with the peculiar information and stored in the unit, and displays the image information on a display out of the image information.

6. An image information search system comprising;

a storage medium on which peculiar information capable of specifying a user is stored;

a reading device which reads the peculiar information stored on the storage medium;

electronics which are connected to the reading device and receives the peculiar information read by the reading device;

an imaging device which shoots a video of the user of the electronics; and

a processing device which is connected to the electronics and the imaging device,

wherein the electronics include a unit which transmits, to the processing device, the peculiar information received from the reading device,

wherein the imaging device includes a unit which transmits image information to the processing device, and

wherein the processing device includes;

an image information database which associates the image information received from the imaging device with the peculiar information received from the electronics and a place at which the imaging device is located, and stores the image information and the peculiar information; and

a unit which chooses the image information associated with the peculiar information and stored in the image information database, based on inputted peculiar information or the place, when specific image information is chosen out of the image information stored in the image information database.

7. The image information search system according to claim 6, wherein, in a case of receiving the peculiar information from the electronics, the processing device includes a unit which transmits an instruction signal for starting shooting to the imaging device.

8. The image information search system according to claim 6, wherein, in a case of receiving the peculiar information from the electronics, the imaging device starting shooting.

9. The image information search system according to claim 6, wherein the processing device includes:

a display unit which displays the image information stored in the image information database; and

an input unit which inputs the peculiar information.

10. The image information search system according to claim 6, wherein the processing device is connected to plural electronics and plural imaging devices.

11. The image information search system according to claim 6, wherein the processing device includes a unit which is connected to the processing device and which receives the peculiar information from the electronics including a peculiar information input unit and a display unit and searches the imaging information.

12. The image information search system according to claim 6, further comprising a unit in which the plural processing devices are provided, which is connected to the plural processing devices, and which receives the peculiar information from the electronics including a peculiar information input unit and display unit and searches the image information.