DISPLAY TERMINAL PROVIDED WITH AN IMAGE DATA SHARING FUNCTION, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING IMAGE DATA

• US 20110074656A1
• Filed: 09/29/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: MIZUNO, Kimiyasu, Handa, Tetsuya, Aibara, Takehiro, Uehara, Naotaka, Nunokawa, Masato, Kogane, Takayuki, Amagai, Hitoshi, Shinohara, Sumito
• Granted Patent: US 9,092,185 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay

Abstract

A display terminal that performs image display processing for displaying in a display section image data recorded in a recording section, which includes a controlling section that performs image sharing processing for providing image data recorded in the recording section to another display terminal over a network, acquiring image data recorded by another display terminal over the network, and displaying the acquired image data in the display section, and sharing control processing for performing control to select image data recorded by another display terminal set up at a location whose distance from the setup location of the display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, as target image data for the image sharing processing.

Claims

1. A display terminal comprising:

a controlling section which performs;

(i) image display processing for displaying in a display section image data recorded in a recording section;

(ii) image sharing processing for providing the image data recorded in the recording section to another display terminal over a network, acquiring image data recorded by another display terminal over the network, and displaying the acquired image data in the display section; and

(iii) sharing control processing for performing control to select image data recorded by another display terminal set up at a location whose distance from a setup location of the display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition as target image data for the image sharing processing.

2. The display terminal according to claim 1, wherein:

the target image data for the image sharing processing is stored and managed in association with location information regarding a shooting location of the target image data and a setup location of the display terminal providing the target image data; and

the sharing control processing allows one of the shooting location and the setup location to be arbitrarily selected as a selection condition when selection of target image data for the image sharing processing is made based on the location information.

3. The display terminal according to claim 2, wherein the sharing control processing allows selection of image data that is recorded by another display terminal after being captured at a location whose distance from the setup location of the display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, as target image data for the image sharing processing.

4. The display terminal according to claim 2, wherein the sharing control processing allows selection of image data that is recorded by another display terminal set up at a location whose distance from a shooting location of the image data provided by the display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, as target image data for the image sharing processing.

5. The display terminal according to claim 2, wherein the sharing control processing allows selection of image data that is recorded by another display terminal after being captured at a location whose distance from a shooting location of the image data provided by the display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, as target image data for the image sharing processing.

6. The display terminal according to claim 2, wherein the image sharing processing adds, when providing the image data recorded in the recording section to another display terminal over the network, location information regarding a shooting location of the image data and a setup location of the display terminal to the image data, and uploads the image data.

7. The display terminal according to claim 1, wherein the display terminal is configured such that, in a case in which a comment has been added to the target image data for the image sharing processing, the comment is displayed together with the target image data.

8. The display terminal according to claim 7, wherein the display terminal is configured such that, when a comment is entered while the target image data for the image sharing processing is being displayed, the comment is added to the target image data.

9. An image sharing system comprising:

a controlling section connected to a plurality of display terminals by a network, which (i) holds image management information where location information corresponding to each of a plurality of image data are managed by being separated into a shooting location at which each image data is captured and a setup location of a display terminal providing each image data, (ii) stores, when image data is received from any of the display terminals over the network, a setup location of a display terminal providing the image data in the image management information in association with the image data, and (iii) selects and transmits, when transmitting image data to any of the display terminals over the network, image data provided from another display terminal set up at a location whose distance from a setup location of a destination display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, with reference to the image management information.

10. An image sharing system for sharing an image uploaded to a server device among a plurality of terminal devices over a network, wherein the server device includes first image delivering means for, when an image is uploaded from any of the plurality of terminal devices, setting location information indicating a setup location of a terminal device that has uploaded the image as a retrieval criterion, retrieving an image captured by a terminal device whose setup location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion from among a plurality of images that have already been uploaded, and transmitting the retrieved image to the terminal device that has performed the upload.

11. The image sharing system according to claim 10, wherein the server device further includes setup location information managing means for storing and managing the location information indicating the setup location of the terminal device that has performed the upload in association with each of a plurality of images uploaded from the plurality of terminal devices.

12. The image sharing system according to claim 11, wherein the server device further includes (i) second image delivering means for, when an image is uploaded from any of the plurality of terminal devices, setting location information indicating a setup location of a terminal device that has uploaded the image as a retrieval criterion, retrieving an image whose shooting location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion from among a plurality of images that have already been uploaded, and transmitting the retrieved image to the terminal device that has performed the upload, and (ii) delivery selecting means for selecting one of the first image delivering means and the second image delivering means, and delivering the image in accordance with a designation from the terminal device that has performed the upload.

13. The image sharing system according to claim 12, wherein the server device further includes shooting location information managing means for storing and managing the location information indicating the shooting location of the image in association with each of a plurality of images uploaded from the plurality of terminal devices.

14. The image sharing system according to claim 13, wherein the server device further includes third image delivering means for, when an image is uploaded from any of the plurality of terminal devices, setting location information indicating a shooting location of the uploaded image as a retrieval criterion, retrieving an image captured by a terminal device whose setup location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion from among a plurality of images that have already been uploaded, and transmitting the retrieved image to the terminal device that has performed the upload, and

wherein the delivery selecting means selects one of the first image delivering means, the second image delivering means, and the third image delivering means, and delivers the image in accordance with a designation from the terminal device that has performed the upload.

15. The image sharing system according to claim 12, wherein the server device further includes fourth image delivering means for, when an image is uploaded from any of the plurality of terminal devices, setting location information indicating a shooting location of the uploaded image as a retrieval criterion, retrieving an image whose shooting location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion from among a plurality of images that have already been uploaded, and transmitting the retrieved image to the terminal device that has performed the upload, and

wherein the delivery selecting means selects any one of the first image delivering means, the second image delivering means, the third image delivering means, and the fourth image delivering means, and delivers the image in accordance with a designation from the terminal device that has performed the upload.

16. The image sharing system according to claim 10, wherein the first image delivering means specifies, when specifying a terminal device whose setup location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion, a terminal device set up within an area whose distance from a location indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion has been specified in advance, or a terminal device set up in a same area as an area indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion.

17. The image sharing system according to claim 12, wherein the second image delivering means specifies, when specifying an image whose shooting location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion, an image captured within an area whose distance from a location indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion has been specified in advance, or an image captured in a same area as an area indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion.

18. The image sharing system according to claim 14, wherein the third image delivering means specifies, when specifying a terminal device whose setup location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion, a terminal device set up within an area whose distance from a location indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion has been specified in advance, or a terminal device set up in a same area as an area indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion.

19. The image sharing system according to claim 15, wherein the fourth image delivering means specifies, when specifying an image whose shooting location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion, an image captured within an area whose distance from a location indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion has been specified in advance, or an image captured in a same area as an area indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion.

21. The image sharing system according to claim 14, wherein the server device further includes fourth image delivering means for, when an image is uploaded from any of the plurality of terminal devices, setting location information indicating a shooting location of the uploaded image as a retrieval criterion, retrieving an image whose shooting location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion from among a plurality of images that have already been uploaded, and transmitting the retrieved image to the terminal device that has performed the upload, and

wherein the delivery selecting means selects any one of the first image delivering means, the second image delivering means, the third image delivering means, and the fourth image delivering means, and delivers the image in accordance with a designation from the terminal device that has performed the upload.

22. The image sharing system according to claim 21, wherein the fourth image delivering means specifies, when specifying an image whose shooting location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion, an image captured within an area whose distance from a location indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion has been specified in advance, or an image captured in a same area as an area indicated by the location information that is the retrieval criterion.

20. An image sharing method for sharing an image uploaded to a server device among a plurality of terminal devices over a network, comprising:

adding location information indicating a setup location of a source terminal device to an image to be transmitted to the server device from any of the plurality of terminal devices;

when an image is uploaded from any of the plurality of terminal devices, setting by the server device location information indicating a setup location of a terminal device that has uploaded the image as a retrieval criterion, and retrieving by the server device an image captured by a terminal device whose setup location corresponds to the location information that is the retrieval criterion from among a plurality of images that have already been uploaded;

transmitting by the server device the retrieved image to the terminal device that has performed the upload; and

receiving and storing the image transmitted from the server device by the terminal device that has performed the upload.