Terminal apparatus, additional information managing apparatus, additional information managing method, and program

• US 9,558,593 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2014
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tomita, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): MOE, AUNG SOE
• Application Number:
  US14/514,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20150124106A1
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes

Abstract

There is provided a terminal apparatus including: a photographing portion configured to photograph a subject which is present in a reality space; an additional information acquiring portion configured to acquire additional information which is made to correspond to an object an image of which is recognized within a photographed image; and an additional information storing portion configured to store therein the acquired additional information in relation to either user identification information or photographing apparatus identification information.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus, comprising:

a photographing portion configured to photograph a subject which is present in a reality space and produce a photographed image thereof;

an additional information acquiring portion configured to acquire additional information which is made to correspond to an object recognized within said photographed image,

wherein said object is recognized in a cloud server in communication with said terminal, and specified by combining information on photographing position with information on photographing direction without using the photographed image; and

an additional information storing portion configured to store therein the acquired additional information in relation to either user identification information or photographing apparatus identification information.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said additional information storing portion is an integrated circuit chip, and the acquired additional information is stored in a security area of said integrated circuit chip.

3. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an augmented reality creating portion configured to create the acquired additional information as augmented reality within the photographed image.

4. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the additional information is information on a coupon which is exchangeable with a predetermined item.

5. The terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the additional information is superimposed on the photographed image and a user can select the additional information though a user interface.

6. The terminal apparatus of claim 5, wherein selecting the additional information causes the additional information to be:

(1) associated with user identifying information and photographing apparatus identifying information; and

(2) stored in said additional information storing portion.

7. The terminal apparatus of claim 6, wherein the additional information storing portion is an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip.

8. The terminal apparatus of claim 7, wherein said additional information is read out when said IC chip is held up over an IC card reader.

9. The terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein said terminal further comprises a display portion that displays the additional information stored in the additional information storing portion separately from the photographed image in response to a user request.

10. The terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein multiple photographs of the same object can be distinguished based on at least one of a season, a time zone, and the photographing direction.

11. An additional information managing apparatus, comprising:

a photographed image acquiring portion configured to acquire a photographed image obtained by photographing a subject which is present in a reality space;

an image recognizing portion configured to recognize the object within the photographed image, and specify the object by combining information on photographing position with information on photographing direction without using the photographed image;

an additional information acquiring portion configured to acquire additional information which is associated with the object recognized by referring to a table in which the object and the additional information are associated with each other; and

a transmitting portion configured to transmit the additional information thus acquired to a terminal apparatus with which the photographed image has been photographed.

12. The additional information managing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising

an additional information registering portion configured to register therein the acquired additional information in relation to either user identification information or photographing apparatus identification information.

13. The additional information managing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a photographing position acquiring portion configured to acquire information on the photographing position.

14. The additional information managing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a photographing date-and-time acquiring portion configured to acquire information on a date and time of photographing,

wherein said image recognizing portion specifies an object based on the acquired information on the date and time of the photographing.

15. The additional information managing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a photographing direction acquiring portion configured to acquire information on the photographing direction.

16. An additional information managing method, comprising:

acquiring a photographed image obtained by photographing an object which is present in a reality space;

recognizing the object within the photographed image, and specifying the object by combining information on photographing position with information on photographing direction without using the photographed image;

acquiring additional information which is associated with the object thus image-recognized by referring to a table in which the object and the additional information are associated with each other; and

transmitting the additional information thus acquired to a terminal apparatus with which the photographed image has been photographed.

17. A non-transitory, computer readable storage medium containing a program comprising instructions for:

acquiring a photographed image obtained by photographing an object which is present in a reality space;

recognizing the object within the photographed image, and specifying the object by combining information on photographing position with information on photographing direction without using the photographed image;

acquiring additional information which is associated with the object recognized by referring to a table in which the object and the additional information are associated with each other; and

transmitting the additional information thus acquired to a terminal apparatus with which the photographed image has been photographed.