IMAGE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20090027496A1
• Filed: 05/16/2006
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Anegawa, Takehiko, Yano, Yoshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,262,897 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19602 Image analysis to detect motion of the intruder, e.g. by frame subtraction
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1961 Movement detection not involving frame subtraction, e.g. motion detection on the basis of luminance changes in the image
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19673 Addition of time stamp, i.e. time metadata, to video stream

Abstract

An image information management system includes: a reading device which reads unique information from a storage medium in which the unique information is stored; an imaging device which automatically starts shooting a video at a time of detecting a change of a picture image in an image area; and a processing device which includes a database which receives the unique information read by the reading device and the image information shot by the imaging device and associates the unique information and the image information to store the unique information and the image information. The processing device includes a control unit which associates the unique information and the image information to store the unique information and the image information in the database in a case of receiving the unique information and the image information, and which associates the image information and identification information indicating that no unique information is received to store the image information and the identification information in the database in a case of receiving only the image information from the imaging device and no unique information from the reading device.

Claims

1. An image information management system comprising:

a reading device which reads unique information from a storage medium in which the unique information is stored;

an imaging device which automatically starts shooting a video at a time of detecting a change of a picture image in an image area; and

a processing device which includes a database which receives the unique information read by the reading device and the image information shot by the imaging device and associates the unique information and the image information to store the unique information and the image information,

wherein the processing device includes a control unit which associates the unique information and the image information to store the unique information and the image information in the database in a case of receiving the unique information and the image information, and which associates the image information and identification information indicating that no unique information is received to store the image information and the identification information in the database in a case of receiving only the image information from the imaging device and no unique information from the reading device.

2. The image information management system according to claim 1,

wherein the imaging device includes a storage unit which stores electronic identification information of specifying electronics existing in an image area shot by the imaging device, and a unit which transmits, to the processing device, not only the image information but also the electronic identification information at a time of transmitting the image information to the processing device.

3. The image information management system according to claim 1, wherein the processing device includes a unit which displays the unique information and the image information associated and stored in the database, as a same picture image.

4. The image information management system according to claim 1, wherein the processing device includes an abnormal state informing unit which informs an abnormal state in a case of receiving only the image information from the imaging device and no unique information from the reading device.