System for making report with authenticated image

• US 7,966,317 B2
• Filed: 11/03/2010
• Issued: 06/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JM Corp. (INFRONEER Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: JM Corp. (INFRONEER Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hiromichi, Isogaya, Syuhei, Otake, Hirotaka, Saito, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Vital; Pierre M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vo; Truong V
• Application Number:
  US12/938,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20110106571A1
• Time in Patent Office: 230 Days
• Field of Search: 707/720, 707/217
• US Class Current: 707/721
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Making a report with an authenticated image includes certifying an imaging time of an image captured by a portable terminal with a camera with an objective time to authenticate image information. A report making program for making a work report is downloaded in the portable terminal by a Web browser from a web server. Report data such as an image and information inputted according to the report making program is sent from the portable terminal to the web server. The web server transfers the report data to a document management program. The document management program automatically sorts the report data according to an information category of the report data and stores the report data. The imaging time of the image information included in the report data or the image information contained in the report made based on the report data is authenticated with a reference time of the web server.

Claims

1. A system for making a report with an authenticated image, comprising:

a program storage that accesses a Web server, by a portable terminal with a camera and a Web browser, to download a report making program from the Web server to the portable terminal, and that stores the report making program in the portable terminal;

a synchronizer that sends sync time data from the Web server to the portable terminal, when the portable terminal with the report making program is connected to the Web server, to synchronize a time specific to the portable terminal with a reference time of the Web server;

a report data maker that inputs image information captured by the portable terminal and character information on the image to the report making program to make report data;

a data sender that sends the report data from the portable terminal to the Web server;

a data storage that transfers the report data from the data sender to a document management program in the Web server to automatically sort the report data by the document management program based on an information category of the report data; and

a report maker that controls the document management program in the Web server from the portable terminal or another Web browser to make a report based on the report data,

wherein the synchronizer has a converting function by which a clock time of the Web server is used as the reference time and the sync time data is sent from the Web server to the portable terminal when the portable terminal having the report making program is connected to the Web server,

when the sync time data acquired from the Web server is set as a clock time used in the report making program of the portable terminal, the reference time used in the report making program is recorded as a pick-up time of an image picked-up by the portable terminal, and

when the sync time data is not set in the portable terminal due to a failure of the portable terminal in connection with the Web server when the report making program of the portable terminal is running, a timer is reset by the portable terminal and an elapsed time after the timer is reset is recorded, and the pick-up time of the image is adjusted to the reference time based on the elapsed time and a present reference time, and

wherein the data storage has a Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) function to permit access from either the portable terminal or the another Web browser.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the image is an image of a rental car to be rented and information on the image is inputted as the report data to the report making program to make a report that certifies an appearance of the rental car.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the report data maker is set to input the image, the image being an image of an aircraft and information on the image as the report data to the report making program, to confirm the report data in the document management program from the Web browser at an aircraft maintenance headquarters, and to make a report that certifies a maintenance status of the aircraft.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the report data maker is set to input the image, the image being an image captured of a damaged house to be assessed by a casualty insurance company and information on the image as the report data to the report making program, to confirm the report data in the document management program from the Web browser at the insurance company, and to make a report that certifies a damaged status of the damaged house.

5. The system according to claim 2, wherein the report data maker is set to input the image, the image being an image of an aircraft and information on the image as the report data to the report making program, to confirm the report data in the document management program from the Web browser at an aircraft maintenance headquarters, and to make a report that certifies a maintenance status of the aircraft.