Image management apparatus and control method thereof for laying out an image shooting location on a map

• US 9,019,395 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Masukawa, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D
• Application Number:
  US13/751,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20130201352A1
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• Field of Search: 3483335-33312, 348/231.2
• US Class Current: 348/231.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/00 Maps; Plans; Charts; Diagrams, e.g. route diagram star maps G09B27/04; devices for holding or supporting maps A47B97/02; for computing purposes G06G1/14, G09B1/16; display boards G09F

Abstract

An image management apparatus for managing an image, to which position information indicative of an image shooting location is appended, comprises a transmission unit configured to transmit map data corresponding to the position information to an information processing apparatus, and an identification unit configured to identify a user of the information processing apparatus, the transmission unit transmits, to the information processing apparatus, map data with a different scale in accordance with the user identified by the identification unit.

Claims

1. An image management apparatus for managing an image, to which position information indicative of an image shooting location is appended, the image management apparatus comprising:

a transmission unit configured to transmit map data corresponding to the position information to an information processing apparatus;

an identification unit configured to identify whether a user of the information processing apparatus is a predetermined user who provides an instruction for making the image management apparatus manage the image; and

a setting unit configured to set an initial value of a scale of a map in a way that position information of an image to be displayed all fits in the map,

wherein the transmission unit transmits, to the information processing apparatus, map data with a set scale, and

wherein the setting unit sets the initial value so that a scale of map data to be transmitted to the information processing apparatus of which the user is identified as the predetermined user becomes smaller than the scale of map data to be transmitted to the information processing apparatus of which the user is not identified as the predetermined user.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reception unit configured to receive, from the information processing apparatus, an instruction for changing a scale of a map,

wherein when the instruction for changing the scale of the map is received by the reception unit, the transmission unit transmits, to the information processing apparatus, map data with a scale that corresponds to the instruction regardless of the user of the information processing apparatus.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the identification unit identifies whether the user of the information processing apparatus is the predetermined user, and

wherein the image management apparatus manages an image uploaded from an information processing apparatus of the predetermined user.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reception unit configured to receive, from the information processing apparatus, a request signal for requesting map data,

wherein the identification unit identifies the user of the information processing apparatus based on the request signal received by the reception unit.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the identification unit identifies the user of the information processing apparatus based on an IP address corresponding to the information processing apparatus.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the identification unit identifies the user of the information processing apparatus based on a user ID transmitted by the information processing apparatus.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display control unit configured to display both an image to be managed and a map that corresponds to map data.

8. A control method of an image management apparatus for managing an image, to which position information indicative of an image shooting location is appended, the control method comprising:

receiving access from an information processing apparatus;

identifying whether a predetermined user of the information processing apparatus is a user who provides an instruction for making the image management apparatus manage the image;

setting an initial value of a scale of a map in a way that position information of an image to be displayed all fits in the map; and

transmitting, to the information processing apparatus, map data with a set scale,

wherein the initial value is set so that a scale of map data to be transmitted to the information processing apparatus of which the user is identified as the predetermined user becomes smaller than the scale of map data to be transmitted to the information processing apparatus of which the user is not identified as the predetermined user.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the control method according to claim 8.