COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SERVER AND IMAGE TRANSMITTING METHOD

• US 20140226029A1
• Filed: 12/26/2013
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation, Olympus Imaging Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuzawa, Yoshinori, Sato, Kazuhiro, Kawai, Sumio, Nonaka, Osamu
• Granted Patent: US 9,742,990 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3208 of an e-mail or network address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3246 of data relating to permitted access or usage, e.g. level of access or usage parameters for digital rights management [DRM] related to still images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image

Abstract

An image file recorded on a non-transitory computer readable recording medium is presented. The image file is readable by a transmitting device in communication with a plurality of transceiving devices. The image file includes electronic image data, and tag information including transmission route information for transmitting the image file to at least one of the plurality of transceiving devices.

Claims

1. An image file recorded on a non-transitory computer readable recording medium that is readable by a transmitting device in communication with a plurality of transceiving devices, comprising:

electronic image data; and

tag information including transmission route information for transmitting the image file to at least one of the plurality of transceiving devices.

2. The image file of claim 1, wherein the transceiving devices are servers and the transmitting device communicates with the plurality of servers via a network.

3. The image of claim 1, wherein the tag information further includes confirmation destination information for an external device associated with an owner of the transmitting device according to the transmission route information.

4. The image file of claim 1, wherein the tag information further includes at least one of permission information on portrait rights of a subject included in an image corresponding to the image data, distance distribution information indicating a distribution of distances from the transmitting device to the subject in the image corresponding to the image data, biological information of the subject when the image data is generated, and biological information of a photographer or an owner of the transmitting device when the image data is generated.

5. A transmitting device capable of generating an image file and communicating with a plurality of transceiving devices, the transmitting device comprising:

a tag information adding unit configured to add, to the image file, tag information including transmission route information for transmitting the image file to at least one of the plurality of transceiving devices; and

a communication unit configured to perform transmission to one of the plurality of transceiving devices based on the transmission route information.

6. The transmitting device of claim 5, wherein the tag information adding unit is configured to further add to the image file as the tag information, confirmation destination information for an external device associated with the transmitting device according to the transmission route information.

7. The transmitting device of claim 5, wherein the image file includes image data, the transceiving devices are servers, and the transmitting device communicates with the plurality of servers via a network.

8. The transmitting device of claim 7, wherein the tag information adding unit is configured to further add to the image file as the tag information, at least one of permission information on portrait rights of a subject included in an image corresponding to the image data, distance distribution information indicating a distribution of distances from the transmitting device to the subject in the image corresponding to the image data, biological information of the subject when the image data is generated, and biological information of a photographer or an owner of the transmitting device when the image data is generated.

9. The transmitting device of claim 7, further comprising a tag information deleting unit configured to delete, based on the transmission route information, the tag information other than the transmission route information when the communication unit transmits the image file to one of the plurality of servers.

10. The transmitting device of claim 7, further comprising:

a permission information input unit configured to receive an input of permission information on portrait rights of a subject included in an image corresponding to the image data; and

a biological detector configured to detect biological information on the subject,

wherein the tag information adding unit is configured to further add to the image file as tag information, the permission information received by the permission information input unit and the biological information detected by the biological detector.

11. The transmitting device of claim 7, further comprising a distance distribution detector configured to detect distance distribution information indicating a distribution of distances from the transmitting device to an object in an image corresponding to the image data,

wherein the tag information adding unit is configured to further add the distance distribution information detected by the distance distribution detector to the image file as the tag information.

12. A management server in communication with a plurality of servers, the management server comprising:

a management server communication unit that acquires an image file from an imaging device in which image data and tag information are recorded, including information identifying the imaging device and mobile terminal information associated with the device, and transmits confirmation information of a copyright to a mobile terminal associated with the device based on the mobile terminal information.

13. The management server of claim 12, further comprising:

a digital watermark generating unit that generates digital watermark information on at least part of the tag information, and adds the digital watermark information to the image file; and

a recording unit that records biological information of an owner of the device,

wherein the tag information further includes biological information of a user of the device when the image data is generated, and

the digital watermark generating unit compares the biological information recorded in the recording unit with the biological information of the tag information to generate the digital watermark information, and adds the digital watermark information to the image file.

14. The management server of claim 13, wherein the tag information further includes transmission route information for transmitting the image file to one of the plurality of servers, and browsing information indicating whether the image data can be browsed through the management server.

15. A transmitting device that generates an image file and communicates with an image display transceiver, the transmitting device comprising:

a shooting condition tag information determining unit that determines shooting tag information for image shooting which is added to the image file by determining whether the image display transceiver performs an image display using a first route or a second route as a transmission route of the image file; and

a communication unit that transmits the image file through one of the first route and the second route.

16. The transmitting device of claim 15, wherein the image file includes image data, the image display transceiver is a server, and the transmitting device communicates with the server via a network.

17. A transmitting device that generates an image file and communicates with an image display device, the transmitting device comprising:

a communication unit that transmits the image file;

a shooting condition tag information determining unit that determines shooting tag information for image shooting which is added to the image file; and

a communication determining unit that determines which of a first route and a second route is used to transmit the image file to the image display device as a transmission route of the image file according to the shooting tag information added to the image file.

18. The transmitting device of claim 17, wherein the image file includes image data, the image display device is a server, and the transmitting device communicates with the server via a network.

19. An image transmitting method executed by a transmitting device that generates an image file and communicates with another device via a network, the method comprising:

adding, to the image file, transmission route information of a transmission route as tag information;

determining whether to delete the tag information when the image file is published according to user instructions; and

transmitting the image file to a receiving device for image publication according to the transmission route information included in the tag information.

20. The transmitting device of claim 19, wherein the image file includes image data, the receiving device is a server, and the image file is published via the Internet.

21. The image transmitting method according to claim 19, wherein the transmission route information includes at least two transmission routes, and one of the transmission routes is a transmission route in which digital watermark information is added to the image file.

22. The image transmitting method according to claim 19, wherein the transmission route information includes at least two transmission routes, and one of the transmission routes is a transmission route in which biological information is added to the image file.

23. The image transmitting method according to claim 22, wherein the other of the transmission routes is a transmission route in which the biological information is deleted from the image file.

24. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium with an executable program recorded thereon, the program instructing a transmitting device having a processor to execute:

communication with another device and transmission of an image file in which content data is recorded;

adding transmission route information as tag information to the image file for transmitting the image file to be published via the Internet; and

transmitting the image file to one of a plurality of receiving devices based on the transmission route information.

25. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium of claim 24, wherein the image file includes image data, the receiving devices are servers, and the transmitting device wirelessly communicates with the other device.

26. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium with an executable program recorded thereon, the program instructing a management server having a processor to:

transmit confirmation information to an external device associated with an imaging device based on transmission destination information of the external device among pieces of information included in tag information added to the image file transmitted from a transmitting device that generates the image file in which image data is recorded;

generate digital watermark information on at least part of the tag information based on confirmed information transmitted from the external device as a confirmation result on the confirmation information, and add the digital watermark information to the image file; and

cause the image file including the digital watermark information to be published via the Internet based on route information of a transmission route of the image file passing through the management server, which is included in the tag information.