JP4788016B2 - System for displaying images taken by camera on server, server and recording medium recording server control program - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a system for displaying an image captured by a camera on a server, the server, and a recording medium on which the server control program is recorded. In particular, the present invention relates to a system or the like for easily creating data updates for homepages of products or services of virtual stores provided on the Internet.
[0002]
[Prior art]
With the recent development of the Internet, printed materials such as merchandise catalogs have been replaced with home pages on the Internet. In particular, in Internet shopping malls, homepage creation is performed by exhibitors and management companies. Exhibitors photograph products etc., create prices and appeal sentences for the products etc., and send the image data and text data to the management company. On the other hand, the management company performs planning work to arrange these data on the homepage in a style, and publishes the page.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, such homepage creation work requires a work amount that is not much different from that of printed matter creation work. Exhibitors need to learn how to operate application software on personal computers, and data creation is not easy. On the other hand, for management companies, page planning operations such as data processing and editing and page layout are complicated operations, requiring a long operation time and increasing the operation cost. Due to the complexity of these operations, the website cannot be updated in real time, leading to a decrease in exhibitor's willingness to exhibit and a decrease in query access due to a long page update interval. These are the excellent characteristics of the Internet, and it can be said that information transmission from individuals to the world and real-time properties of information are lost.
[0004]
Therefore, the present invention can easily display an image taken by a camera on a homepage on the Internet, and can shorten the time from exhibition planning to actual posting, its server, and its server control. An object is to provide a recording medium on which a program is recorded.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
A system for displaying an image photographed by a camera according to the present invention on a server is a system having a camera provided with communication means and image number assigning means, and a server provided with public display means, wherein the image number assigning means comprises: the image number is given for each captured image, wherein the communication means holds the phone number, and sends the captured image number and a telephone number assigned to the image together with the image data of the image to the server, the public display means specifies the display page by the telephone number received together with the image data, the position of the predetermined said display page for each of the image number, and attach an image corresponding to received image data published that displays. As a result, images taken with the camera can be easily displayed on the homepage of the Internet, and the time from the exhibition planning to the actual posting can be shortened.
[0006]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, the server further includes text acquisition means for acquiring text data for each image from the user, and the public display means displays the text data for each image publicly. It is also preferable that Thus, the image and the text can be associated with each other and published like a catalog of printed materials.
[0007]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, it is also preferable that the text acquisition means of the server acquires the text data from the user by e-mail or directly acquires the text data from the displayed page. If the user can use the personal computer, the text data can be transmitted directly.
[0008]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, it is also preferable that the text acquisition unit of the server receives the text image by facsimile from a user and acquires the text data by the character recognition unit. Thereby, the exhibitor is not required to learn the operation of application software of the personal computer.
[0009]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, it is also preferable that the public display means of the server notifies the user of a message prompting transmission of text information by e-mail or facsimile when displaying the image data. Thereby, the server can urge the user to send the text information.
[0010]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable that the public display means of the server notifies the user of the image data of the display page by e-mail or facsimile when the image and text data are publicly displayed. In particular, when the exhibitor does not use a personal computer, the image of the published page can be confirmed by facsimile.
[0011]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, it is also preferable that the public display means of the server can classify according to the area code of the telephone number or the address input by the user and search the display page for each area. The current search system performs a search based on a specified keyword, but even if an address is input, it is impossible to search a store page located at the address. Therefore, it is possible to search for a community-based homepage by assigning address information to the homepage in advance as a search key.
[0012]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, the communication means of the camera is a PHS (Personal Handy Phone System), and the public display means of the server classifies according to the position information of the PHS, and searches the display page for each position. It is also preferred that it can be done. Since the position of the PHS terminal can be recognized by the center station, the server can also recognize the position of the camera.
[0013]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable that the camera further has an image number input means for inputting an image number, either internally or externally. As a result, more image numbers can be assigned, which is considered to contribute to the development of the service.
[0014]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable that the server further includes a billing unit that charges each time the received image is attached and displayed publicly. As a result, since the fee is charged according to the number of times the management company uses, it is clear and efficient for the exhibitor.
[0015]
A server for displaying an image taken by a camera according to the present invention specifies a display page by means of a telephone number and means for receiving the image number and the telephone number of the camera together with image data from a camera having a communication function. Open display means for attaching and displaying an image corresponding to the received image data at a predetermined position in the display page .
[0016]
Record media that by the present invention, that have have a program that causes a computer to function as the server.
[0017]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
[0018]
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram according to the present invention. The exhibitor has a camera 1 for photographing products and the like, and a facsimile 3 or a personal computer 4 as means for notifying a sentence. On the other hand, the service provider has the server 2 and its database 20, and receives images and the like from users and publishes home pages. Each device is connected to each other via the Internet 6, a telephone network, a wireless telephone network 7, or the like. A customer who uses the shopping mall can browse and search the exhibitor's products using the personal computer 5. The personal computer 4 used by the exhibitor or the personal computer 5 used by the customer may be a mobile phone capable of displaying images such as i-mode of NTT DoCoMo.
[0019]
Examples of the camera 1 include a digital camera and a web camera that can be equipped with a communication function, and preferably have an image compression function. It is also preferable that these cameras have a PC card interface, whereby communication means corresponding to various networks such as a telephone line, PHS, or LAN can be provided. It is also preferable that the communication unit is constructed as an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client and the server 2 is constructed as an FTP server. By using existing technology, a general-purpose system can be constructed.
[0020]
FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram in the system of FIG.
[0021]
As the first stage S1, the exhibitor uses the camera 1 to photograph a product or the like to be exhibited. At this time, an image number can be assigned to the captured image. This image number may be fixed such as the shooting order, or may be input by a keypad built in or externally attached to the camera 1. The image number may be assigned to the image or may be embedded in the image. Then, the image data and the image number are transmitted to the server 2. At this time, the telephone number previously assigned to the communication means of the camera 1 is also transmitted together.
[0022]
As the second step S2, the server 2 specifies a display page by a telephone number, and displays the received image data attached to a predetermined position for each image number. Since the server 2 stores the correspondence relationship between the exhibitor and the telephone number in advance, the exhibitor can be specified by the telephone number and the exhibitor's dedicated homepage can be specified. The server 2 can also use this telephone number, particularly the area code for the area, as information on the exhibitor's address. Further, since the server 2 stores the correspondence between the image number and the position of the home page in advance, the position can be specified by notification of the image number, and the image data can be automatically attached to the position.
[0023]
FIG. 3 is an example of a homepage published on the server of the present invention. For example, it is assumed that the server 2 associates the exhibitor ICube with its telephone number 093-592-0001. In the server 2, the position and size of the image data are determined in advance by the image number. When the server 2 receives the image data, the image number 1 and the telephone number 093-592-0001, it can be determined that the image data should be displayed in the shopping mall of the exhibitor ICube. Further, when receiving the image number 1, the server 2 can determine that the image data should be attached at the position of the image number 1 in FIG.
[0024]
As the third stage S3, the server 2 can request text data for the image from the exhibitor. At this time, the server 2 notifies the message that prompts the sending of the text to the device that is most easy for the exhibitor to use. If the exhibitor wants to use the facsimile, a message is notified to the facsimile 3. If the exhibitor wants to use a personal computer, a message is sent by e-mail. The third step S3 is not an essential step.
[0025]
As the fourth stage S4, the exhibitor can send a sentence corresponding to the image data to the server 2 using the facsimile 3 or the personal computer 4. When a text image is transmitted by the facsimile 3, the server 2 can acquire text data by the character recognition means. Further, when text data is transmitted by e-mail, it can be obtained as it is. The acquired text data can be disclosed on the home page as a description of the corresponding image.
[0026]
FIG. 4 is an example of a homepage published on the server of the present invention, in which text can be directly input on the page. The server 2 immediately attaches the image data received from the camera 1 to the home page, and displays a text input portion on the horizontal portion of the image. Exhibitors can enter text data directly into this area.
[0027]
As the fifth stage S5, the server 2 can transmit the entire image of the final homepage to the exhibitor. At this time, if the exhibitor uses the facsimile 3, the server 2 transmits the image data to the facsimile 3. Thus, the exhibitor can grasp the entire final homepage without accessing the homepage via a personal computer.
[0028]
FIG. 5 is an internal configuration diagram of the camera 1 and the server 2 according to the present invention.
[0029]
The camera 1 includes an image acquisition unit 1, an image number assigning unit 11, an image number acquisition unit 12, a communication unit 13, and a stored location number 14. The image acquisition means 10 acquires image data as one function of a normal camera. At this time, the image number acquisition unit 12 acquires the image number of the image data. This image number may be fixed such as the shooting order, or may be input by a keypad built in or externally attached to the camera 1. Then, the image number assigning means 11 associates the image data with the image number. This image number may be assigned to the image or may be embedded in the image. These image data and image number are notified to the communication means 13. The communication unit 13 transmits the image data and the image number to the server 2 together with the telephone number of the communication unit 13. Furthermore, the communication means 13 can also transmit the location number 14 that can be input from the outside to the server 2 together with the image.
[0030]
The server 2 includes a communication unit 21, an image acquisition unit 22, a text acquisition unit 23, a public display unit 24, a character recognition unit 25, a charging unit 26, and a search unit 28. Furthermore, it has the database 20 outside, and this has the position classification means 27 which classify | categorizes a homepage by an address etc.
[0031]
The image data received by the communication unit 21 is notified to the image acquisition unit 22. The image acquisition unit 22 extracts the image data, the image number, and the telephone number and notifies them to the public display unit 24. The public display means 24 attaches the image data to a predetermined position on the home page corresponding to the telephone number and the image number. The public display means 24 notifies the exhibitor's facsimile 3 or personal computer 4 via the communication means 21 of a message requesting transmission of text in order to obtain text data corresponding to the image data from the exhibitor. . When the text data is acquired by the personal computer 4, the communication means 21 notifies the text acquisition means 23 of the text data, and the text data is notified to the public display means 24. When the facsimile 3 acquires the sentence image, the communication means 21 notifies the character recognition means 25 of the sentence image, acquires the text data from the character recognition means 25, and the text data is the sentence acquisition means 23. To notify. The public display means 24 can be charged by the charging means 26 every time image data and text data are attached to the home page.
[0032]
The home page created by the public display means 24 is notified to the database 20 and published on the Internet. At this time, the position classification means 27 can classify each address of a store or the like that provides a home page. The home pages classified in this way are searched from the personal computer 5 of the customer through the search means 28 using the location such as an address as a key. The ability to search using an address as a key is very effective for community-based information transmission.
[0033]
In the above description, the system has been described, but it is also possible to provide only a server that displays an image taken by a camera. This means that the image number and the transmission source telephone number are received together with the image data, the display page is specified by the telephone number, and the received image data is attached to the position determined in advance for each image number. It has public display means for displaying. Various embodiments in the system described above can also be applied to this server.
[0034]
Furthermore, it is possible to provide a recording medium in which a server control program for displaying an image taken by a camera is recorded. This is a program that receives the image number and the telephone number of the transmission source together with the image data, specifies the display page by the telephone number, and publishes the received image data attached at a predetermined position for each image number. A program to be displayed. Various embodiments in the system described above can also be applied to this control program.
[0035]
Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, various changes, modifications and omissions of the technical idea and scope of the present invention can be easily made by those skilled in the art in the application of various services. . Therefore, the above description is merely an example, and is not intended to be limited. The invention is limited only as defined in the following claims and the equivalents thereto.
[0036]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention described in detail, an image taken by a camera can be easily displayed on a homepage on the Internet, and the time from exhibition planning to actual posting can be shortened. Accordingly, it is possible to easily transmit information such as daily special sales or time service in newspaper leaflets that are closely related to daily life.
[0037]
Exhibitors can publish a homepage on the Internet using only a camera and a facsimile machine, so that they do not need to learn how to operate application software on a personal computer. On the other hand, for the management company, since the page and its position are determined in advance based on the telephone number and the image number, page planning work is not necessary. Furthermore, since no manual work is required, a page can be created and published immediately, and the work cost is low.
[0038]
Therefore, according to the present invention, since the page can be updated in real time, it leads to promotion of exhibitor's willingness to exhibit and increase inquiries access due to a short page update interval.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram in the system of FIG.
FIG. 3 is an example of a homepage published on the server of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is an example of a home page published on the server of the present invention, in which text can be directly input on the page.
5 is an internal configuration diagram of a camera and a server in the system of FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Camera 10 Image acquisition means 11 Image number assignment means 12 Image number acquisition means 13 Communication means 14 Telephone number, area code, address 2 Server 20 Database 21 Communication means 22 Image acquisition means 23 Text acquisition means 24 Public display means 25 Characters Recognizing means 26 Charging means 27 Position classification means 28 Search means 3 Exhibitor side facsimile 4 Exhibitor side personal computer 5 Customer side personal computer 6 Internet 7 Telephone network, wireless telephone network

Claims (13)

A system having a camera having a communication unit and an image number giving unit, and a server having a public display unit,
The image number assigning means assigns an image number for each photographed image ,
It said communication means holds the phone number, and sends the image number and the telephone number assigned to the image together with the image data of the captured image to the server,
The public display means identifies a display page by the telephone number received together with the image data , and attaches an image corresponding to the received image data to a position in the display page determined in advance for each image number. To display publicly ,
Features and be Resid stem that.   The server further includes text acquisition means for acquiring text data for each image from a user, and the public display means can publicly display the text data for each image. The system of claim 1.   The system according to claim 2, wherein the text acquisition unit of the server acquires the text data from a user by electronic mail.   The system according to claim 2, wherein the text acquisition unit of the server directly acquires the text data from a page displayed by the public display unit.   3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the text acquisition unit of the server receives the text image by facsimile from a user and acquires the text data by a character recognition unit. The public display means of the server, when published displaying the picture image, either a message prompting the transmission of the text information to the user from the claim 1, characterized in that the notification by e-mail or fax 5 The system according to item 1.   The public display means of the server, when the image and the text data are publicly displayed, notifies the user of the image data of the display page by e-mail or facsimile. The system according to any one of the above.   8. The server according to claim 1, wherein the public display means of the server is capable of classifying according to an area number of the telephone number or an address input by a user and searching the display page for each area. The system according to any one of the above.   8. The communication means of the camera is PHS, and the public display means of the server can classify according to the position information of the PHS and search the display page for each position. The system according to any one of the above.   10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the camera further includes number input means for inputting the image number, either internally or externally.   The system according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the server further includes a billing unit that charges each time the received image is attached and displayed publicly. Means for receiving the image number and the telephone number of the camera together with the image data from a camera having a communication function; and a display page is specified by the telephone number , and a position within the display page determined in advance for each image number. A server comprising public display means for attaching and displaying an image corresponding to the received image data. A recording medium on which a program for causing a computer to function as the server according to claim 12 is recorded.

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