JP2008197968A - Event image disclosure system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for enabling an image holder to disclose an event image by a relatively simple operation, and for enabling an image browser to relatively simply find out an image which he or she wants to browse from the disclosed images. <P>SOLUTION: This event image disclosure system comprises: an image registration terminal 3; a photo-album site 5; an image browsing terminal 6; an SNS management terminal 7; and an on-line print site 8. This photo-album site 5 includes an ID collation means 512 for collating ID transmitted from the image registration terminal 3; an image data recording means 513 for recording the transmitted image data; an image accessory information recording means 514 for recording accessory information at the header part of the image data; an image display means 521 for displaying the disclosed images to the user by any of image registerer units, category units, and group units; and an image retrieval means 523 for enabling the user to retrieve the disclosed images by using the image accessory information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method and system for publishing an image taken with a digital camera, a mobile phone with a camera, and the like, and more particularly to a system for publishing an image taken at an event such as a wedding ceremony or athletic meet.

With the widespread use of digital cameras and camera-equipped mobile phones and higher pixel counts, various events such as weddings, sports events, and sightseeing are being photographed with digital cameras and camera-equipped mobile phones.
This event image is not only viewed by the image holder itself, but also recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-R or attached to an e-mail and distributed to related parties, or uploaded to a site on the Internet, and the image registrant Is open to specified users.
Conventionally, an online photo album site is known as a site for image holders to publish images on the Internet (see Patent Document 1).

  In addition, with the spread of user-participation-type services such as blogs and SNS (Social Networking Service) in recent years, an SNS site that combines the online photo album function and the SNS function has also appeared and is being used as a place to publish images (current services) For example, see Non-Patent Document 1 and Non-Patent Document 2.)

In such an image publishing service, the following procedure is required to share an image between an image registrant and a user.
First, an image registrant who wants to publish an image registers as a user on the site.
Next, a photo album for managing a public image is created, and an image to be released stored in a computer terminal owned by the image registrant is uploaded to the album.
Finally, release the album to users.

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However, in the conventional image publishing service, in order for an image registrant to publish an image and allow the user to view it, before uploading the image to be published, the user can register the user on the service site, or create a photo album. Since it is necessary to create the image, it is very troublesome to publish the image itself.
In addition, users who have released images can only view images in units of photo albums created by image registrants. For example, users want to view images of bride and groom entrance scenes at weddings. However, there was no other way than browsing the albums individually created by the image registrants.
In addition, information for searching for such images is not held in albums or images, or even if there is a mechanism to hold it, the image registrant has not registered so that the target image can be easily searched. I could not.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems of the prior art, and the object of the present invention is to enable an image registrant to publish an event image with a relatively simple operation, and to make the user available to the public. It is an object of the present invention to provide an event image disclosure system that can relatively easily find an image to be browsed from among the images.

In order to achieve the above object, the event image publishing system of the present invention is an event image that publishes on the Internet a digital image taken at an event such as a wedding or athletic meet to a user designated by the image registrant. A public system,
An image registration terminal for transferring an image taken by an image registrant to a server device at a photo album site or an SNS site, and the server device for publishing an image transferred from the image registration terminal to a user designated by the image registrant And an image browsing terminal for browsing images published by the user, an online print site for accepting print order requests from the image browsing terminal, and an SNS management terminal for managing a photo album site or an SNS site,
The image registration terminal includes an ID reading unit that reads a recording medium in which an image captured by an image capturing terminal such as a digital camera is stored or an ID of the image capturing terminal itself, and an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data from the recording medium And transmission / reception means for adding the ID to the header portion of the acquired image data and transmitting it to the server device,
The server device checks whether or not the ID transmitted from the image registration terminal is registered with the ID registered in the recording medium ID management table. If the ID is not registered, the received ID is recorded in the recording medium ID management. After registering in the table, the user ID is issued, and an image folder corresponding to the user ID is newly created in the image database, and the image registration destination image folder is notified to the image registration terminal, When the ID transmitted from the image registration terminal has already been registered, an ID collating means for notifying the image registration terminal of a folder to which image data is to be transmitted, and the image data transmitted from the image registration terminal Image data recording means for recording in an image folder corresponding to the user ID, and browsing from the image browsing terminal of the user designated by the image registrant for the registered image And an image publishing unit for transmitting, in response to a determined,
The image browsing terminal includes image browsing means for transmitting a request for browsing image data to the server device and displaying the image data received from the server device,
The SNS management terminal includes SNS management means for managing an image publication service such as an online photo album or SNS provided by the server device.

  Further, the image publishing means of the server device searches the additional information added to the image data in accordance with the browsing condition specified by the browsing request from the user's image browsing terminal, and the additional information matching the browsing condition is found. The image processing apparatus includes a search unit that acquires the added image data from the image database and transmits the acquired image data to an image browsing terminal that is a browsing request source.

  The server device may further include print order receiving means for receiving a print order for an image published from the user's image browsing terminal and transmitting the print order to an online print site.

The image publishing means of the server device includes means for editing an image for each image registrant and transmitting it to the image browsing terminal.
Further, the image disclosure means of the server device includes means for editing an image in a category unit obtained by subdividing a community by time and transmitting the image to an image browsing terminal.
The image publishing means of the server device includes means for editing an image for each group to which the image registrant belongs and transmitting the image to the image browsing terminal.

  The image disclosure means of the server device includes means for switching the image display mode in units of image registrants, categories, and groups.

The event image disclosure system of the present invention has the following effects.
(1) When an external recording medium on which a photographed image is recorded is connected to the reading device of the image registration terminal, all image files in the recording medium are automatically uploaded to the server device of the photo album site. It is possible to reduce the complexity of uploading the image file on the computer terminal to the photo album site server device via the network.
(2) Since the supplementary information of the image file is added to each captured image and uploaded, it is possible to reduce the complexity of the work of registering the supplementary information separately on the photo album site or the like.
In addition, the image viewer who has released the image can easily search for the image based on the accompanying information, and the complexity of the operation of searching for the image can be reduced.
(3) Since the published images can be browsed in units of image registrants, categories, and user groups, it is possible to reduce the complexity of sequentially browsing the photo albums of a plurality of image registrants. .

Hereinafter, an embodiment of an event image disclosure system to which the present invention is applied will be described.
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of an embodiment of the present invention.
The event image publishing system in this embodiment includes an image registration terminal 3 where a photo album site user uploads images, a computer terminal 6a, where a photo album site user browses, downloads, prints orders, etc. album images, and PDA 6b. , An image browsing terminal 6 such as a mobile phone 6c, a photo album site 5 for storing and publishing images, and providing various services related to images, and an SNS management terminal for managing image publishing services such as online photo albums and SNS 7 and an online print site 8 that provides an image print service. The image registration terminal 3, the image browsing terminal 6, the SNS management terminal 7, the photo album site 5, and the online print site 8 are connected via the Internet 4. Has been.

  In addition, an image photographed by an image photographing terminal 1 such as a digital camera 1a, a camera-equipped mobile phone 1b, or a camera-equipped cellular phone 1c with a non-contact IC is provided with an ID function in the case of the digital camera 1a or the camera-equipped cellular phone 1b. In the case of the camera-equipped mobile phone 1c with the non-contact IC built-in via the recording medium 2, it is delivered to the image registration terminal 3 via the non-contact IC wireless line. The recording medium 2 with the ID function includes a flash memory card such as an SD card (registered trademark), and the non-contact IC includes, for example, FeliCa (trademark).

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the image registration terminal 3.
The image registration terminal 3 is connected to an input device 31 that accepts input from a user, such as a keyboard or a touch panel display, a display device 32 that displays processing results on a screen, a digital camera 1a, a mobile phone with camera 1b, and the like. A recording medium reading device 33 that reads an image from the recording medium 2 with an ID function in which an image photographed is stored, and a non-contact IC reading device 34 that reads an image photographed by the mobile phone with a non-contact IC built-in camera 1c. The output device 35 outputs an image registration result to the photo album site, the communication device 36 communicates with the photo album site 5, and the control device 37 controls these devices.
The image registration terminal 3 is installed, for example, at a camera mass retailer or a photographic specialty store, and corresponds to a kiosk terminal (terminal that handles various information connected to a network) that accepts a print order from a user. Examples of the kiosk terminal include Printao (trademark) and Loppi (trademark).

The control device 37 includes a recording medium ID reading unit 373 that reads ID information and the like from the recording medium 2 with an ID function connected to the recording medium reading device 33, and a non-contact IC reading device 34 that reads IC information. The contact IC reading unit 375, the image data acquisition unit 374 that reads the image file from the recording medium 2 with the ID function, or the image file acquisition unit 374 that reads the image file from the non-contact IC built-in mobile phone 1c, and transmits the data to the photo album site 5 A transmission / reception unit 376 is provided.
In addition, the control device 37 is provided with an output information editing unit 377 for editing the image registration result information and community information received from the photo album site 5, and an output unit 378 for outputting the editing result to the output device 35. .
Further, the control device 37 is provided with an input receiving unit 371 that receives user input information from the input device 31 and a display unit 372 that outputs screen display information to the display device 32.
Specifically, the control device 37 is realized by an image processing program executed by the CPU.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a photo album site.
The photo album site 5 includes an image registration program 51 that performs an image registration process requested from the image registration terminal 3, an image browsing process program 52 that receives an image browsing request from the image browsing terminal 6, and transmits the result. A DB group 53 that holds data related to the photo album site, and an SNS management processing program 54 that receives an SNS management request such as creating a new community from the SNS management terminal 7 and transmits the result thereof.
The image registration program 51 includes a transmission / reception unit 511 that transmits / receives data to / from the image registration terminal 3, a recording medium ID transmitted from the image registration terminal 3, and a recording medium ID recorded in the recording medium ID information storage unit 531. A recording medium ID collating unit 512 for collation, an image data recording unit 513 for recording an image file, an image incidental information recording unit 514 for recording incidental information of image data, and an owner (image registrant) for the recorded image. An image publishing unit 515 is provided for publishing to designated guests.

  The image browsing program 52 also includes an image display unit that edits data for transferring and displaying the published image to the image browsing terminal 6 in units of image registrants, categories, or user groups. 521, an image display unit switching unit 522 that provides the switching of the image display unit, an image search unit 523 that provides an image search function that uses the auxiliary information of the image, and an image browsing terminal that stores the original data of the published image 6 and a print order receiving unit 525 that receives a print order of a published image and transfers the image data and the print order to the online print site 8.

The DB group 53 includes a recording medium ID information storage unit 531, a user information storage unit 532, a community information storage unit 533, and a photo album in which information necessary for storing and releasing images and providing services related to images is managed. An information storage unit 534, an image information storage unit 535, and an image supplementary information storage unit 536 are provided.
The SNS management program 54 is provided with an SNS management unit 541 that manages services related to SNS and images and information necessary for the services.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a community management table stored in the community information storage unit 533.
As shown in FIG. 4, the community management table includes a community ID 5331, a community name 5332, an operator ID 5333, a community owner ID 5334, a representative image ID 5335, and a comment 5336, and is used to uniquely identify a community. ID, community name to be displayed on the photo album list screen (album display) L11 etc. in FIG. 13, ID for identifying the community owner, community on the photo album list screen (album display) L11, etc. An image ID for displaying an image to be displayed and a comment to be displayed on the photo album list screen (album display) L11 and the like are registered.
Here, for example, when the bridal service provider creates a new community with the image disclosure applicant A as the community owner at the SNS management terminal 7, the SNS management unit 541 includes the community ID 5331 as shown in FIG. The management number “A001” automatically issued, the community name 5332 is the community name “ABC community” desired by Mr. A, the operator ID 5333 is “S001” indicating the bridal service operator, and the community owner ID 5334 is Mr. A. A user ID “U001” is registered. The representative image ID 5335 and the comment 5336 are not registered when a new community is created, but are separately registered by Mr. A who is a community owner.
Note that the representative image ID 5335 is automatically registered by the SNS management unit 541 for the first image registered in the community ("I001" in the example of FIG. 4) only when Mr. A has not registered the representative image ID 5335. But can be changed by community owners.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a recording medium ID management table stored in the recording medium ID information storage unit 531.
As shown in FIG. 5, the recording medium ID management table is composed of a recording medium ID 5311 and a user ID 5312. In order to uniquely identify the recording medium ID transmitted from the image registration terminal 3 and the photo album site user. The ID automatically assigned by this system is registered.
Here, for example, when the image disclosure applicant A registers an image on the recording medium X and the recording medium Y, when the recording medium X is connected, “Z001” is stored in the recording medium ID 5311 and “U001” is stored in the user ID 5312. When the recording medium Y is registered, “Z002” is registered in the recording medium ID 5311 and “U004” is registered in the user ID 5312. In this case, Mr. A who desires image disclosure possesses two user IDs “U001” and “U004”. However, as shown in FIG. 5, Mr. A has user IDs “U004” to “U001”. It is possible to integrate user IDs by separately changing them.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an album management table stored in the photo album information storage unit 534.
As shown in FIG. 6, the album management table includes a community ID 5341, an album ID 5342, an album name 5343, an album owner ID 5344, a folder path 5345, and a folder name 5346 for uniquely identifying the community. , An ID for uniquely identifying the photo album, an album name for display on the image list screen L14 shown in FIG. 16, an ID for identifying the photo album owner, and an image file Folder path information (folder path, folder name) for registration is registered.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image management table stored in the image information storage unit 535.
As shown in FIG. 7, the image management table includes an album ID 5351, an image ID 5352, an image owner ID 5353, an image file name 5354, a comment 5355, and an ID for uniquely identifying a photo album. An ID for uniquely identifying image data, an ID for identifying an image owner, an image file name, and a comment to be displayed on the image list screen L14 in FIG. 16 are registered.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of the image supplementary information management table stored in the image supplementary information storage unit 536.
As shown in FIG. 8, the image supplementary information management table includes an image ID 5361, a pixel number 5362, a camera manufacturer 5363, a camera model 5364, a copyright 5365, a photo shooting date 5366, and a shooting position ( (GPS position) 5367, the ID for uniquely identifying the image data, the number of pixels extracted from the Exif (Exchangeable Image File Format) tag of the image data, the camera manufacturer, the camera model, the copyright, and the photo The shooting date and shooting position (GPS position) are registered as supplementary information.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the order in which the user, the image registration terminal 3, and the photo album site 5 perform processing when the user uploads an image to the photo album site.
When the user accesses the photo album site at the URL notified from the image publishing service provider or the community owner, or performs a predetermined operation on the image registration terminal 3 installed at a store such as a photo mass retailer, the image registration is performed. The terminal 3 extracts the community in which the operator ID of the own operator is registered from the community management table of FIG. 4 and displays it on the display device 32 as a community list.

  The user selects a community to upload an image from the community list displayed on the display device 32 (step S11), and in the case of an image photographed with the digital camera 1a or the camera-equipped mobile phone 1b, the recording medium 2 with an ID function. Is connected to the recording medium reading device 33, and in the case of an image taken by the mobile phone 1c with camera with built-in non-contact IC, the mobile phone with camera with built-in non-contact IC 1c is held over the non-contact IC reading device 34 (step S12). .

  When the recording medium ID reading unit 373 of the image registration terminal 3 detects the connection between the recording medium 2 with the ID function and the recording medium reading device 33, the recording medium ID reading unit 373 reads the ID of the recording medium 2 with the ID function, and the transmission / reception unit. 376 transmits the recording medium ID to the photo album site 5. Alternatively, when the non-contact IC reading unit 375 detects that the non-contact IC built-in mobile phone 1c is held over the non-contact IC reading device 34, the non-contact IC reading unit 375 sets the non-contact IC built-in camera mobile phone 1c. The ID registered in the IC memory is read, and the transmission / reception unit 376 transmits the recording medium ID to the photo album site 5 (step S13).

When the transmission / reception unit 511 of the photo album site 5 receives the recording medium ID, the recording medium ID collation unit 512 collates the received recording medium ID with the recording medium ID 5311 registered in the recording medium ID management table of FIG. Upload destination information such as an image upload destination folder is specified (step S14, see FIG. 10 for details).
Next, the upload destination information is returned to the image registration terminal 3 (step S15).

  The image data acquisition unit 374 of the image registration terminal 3 selects an image file to be uploaded from the image recording area of the recording medium 2 with ID function or the mobile phone with built-in contactless IC 1c (step S16), and a photo album site The image file is uploaded to the upload destination 5 (step S17).

  When the transmission / reception unit 511 of the photo album site 5 receives the image file, the image supplementary information recording unit 514 extracts image supplementary information such as the photographing date and photographing position information of the photograph from the Exif tag in the header of the received image file. The image data recording unit 513 registers the image file itself in the image information storage unit 535. This process is repeated for the number of uploaded image files (step S18).

  When the registration processing for all uploaded images is completed, the transmission / reception unit 511 receives the registration result (OK or NG) for each image file and information for accessing the photo album such as the URL, community name, and user name of the photo album site. It transmits to the image registration terminal 3 (step S19).

When the transmission / reception unit 376 of the image registration terminal 3 receives the image registration result and community information, the output information editing unit 377 edits the received information according to the form layout to be output, and the output unit 378 outputs it to the output device 35 ( Step S20).
After receiving the output community information, the user removes the recording medium 2 with the ID function from the recording medium reader 33 or moves the non-contact IC built-in mobile phone 1c away from the non-contact IC built-in reader 34 (step). S21).

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing in detail the recording medium ID matching process (step S14).
The recording medium ID transmitted from the image registration terminal 3 to the photo album site 5 is collated with the data of the recording medium ID 5311 registered in the recording medium ID management table of FIG. 5 by the recording medium ID collating unit 512 (step S141). ).
As a result, if it is not registered, the recording medium ID is registered in the recording medium ID 5311 of the recording medium ID management table (step S142), and a new user ID is issued (step S143).

The issued user ID is registered in the user ID 5312 of the recording medium ID management table, and at the same time, is registered in the album owner ID 5344 of the album management table of FIG. A folder path is assigned and a new folder is created (step S144).
On the other hand, if the recording medium ID has already been registered, the user ID is specified from the recording medium ID 5311 of the recording medium ID management table of FIG. 5 (step S145), and the folder path 5345 of the album management table of FIG. And the folder name 5346 is specified (step S146).

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a category management table.
As shown in FIG. 11, the category management table includes a community ID 5371, a category ID 5372, a category name 5373, a start date and time 5374, and an end date and time 5375. The ID for uniquely identifying the community and the category is uniquely set. 14 is registered, a category name to be displayed on the photo album list screen (category display) L12 in FIG. 14, and a period (start date / time, end date / time) used for grouping images in the community. Is done.
Here, for example, when the community owner A newly registers “ceremony” as the category of “ABC community” in the SNS management terminal 7, as shown in FIG. 11, the community ID 5371 has an ID representing “ABC community”. The management number “C002” automatically assigned by the SNS management unit 541 is assigned to “A001”, the category ID 5372, and the community owner A has registered the category name 5373 for display on the photo album list screen (category display) L12. The name “ceremony”, start date 5374 and end date 5375 include the period of the image that the community owner A wants to belong to the category “ceremony” (shooting start date “2006/11/3 13:00” and shooting end date "2006/11/3 13:29") is registered.
In this case, in the category “ceremony”, among all the images registered in “ABC community”, the photographing date 5366 of the image attached information management table is changed from “2006/11/3 13:00” to “2006/11”. / 3 13:29 ”(in the example of FIG. 8, two images with image ID 5361 of“ I001 ”and“ I002 ”) belong.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of the group management table.
As shown in FIG. 12, the group management table includes a community ID 5381, a group ID 5382, a group name 5383, and a member ID 5384. The ID for uniquely identifying the community and the group uniquely identifying The ID, the group name uniquely registered by the user of the photo album site, and the user ID representing the group member are registered.
Here, for example, when community owner A newly registers friend B as “groom friend” as a group of “ABC community” at SNS management terminal 7, as shown in FIG. ID “A001” indicating “community”, group ID 5372 is automatically displayed by the SNS management unit 541, management number “G001”, and group name 5383 is displayed on the photo album list screen (group display) L13 by the community owner A The user ID “U002” representing the friend B invited from the community owner A is registered in the registered name “groom friend” and member ID 5384.

FIG. 13 shows an example of a photo album list screen (album display) L11.
As shown in FIG. 13, the photo album list screen (album display) L11 has an area L111 for displaying community information and an area L112 for displaying a photo album list.
The community display area L111 includes an area L113 for displaying an image registered as a community representative image by the community manager, and an area L114 for displaying a community comment.
The photo album list display area L112 is an area for displaying photo albums in units of owners, an area L115 for displaying a representative image of the photo album, and a “previous album” and “next album” link L116 for switching the album to be displayed. And a “display method switching” link L117 for switching the display method of the photo album.
The “display method switching” link L117 is a button or link for switching the display method between the present screen L11 and the photo album list screen (category display) L12 and the photo album list screen (group display) L13 described below. , “Album”, “category”, and “group”.
Here, for example, when a transition is made to the photo album list screen (album display) of “ABC community”, the thumbnail image of the image ID “I001” registered in the representative image ID 5335 of the community management table is displayed in the community representative image display area L113. The character string “AAAAAA” registered in the comment 5336 of the community management table is displayed in the community comment display area L114, and the album (album ID “M001”) of Mr. A (user ID “U001”) is stored in the photo album representative image display area L115. ”), The thumbnail image of the image (for example, Image001.jpg) extracted first by the image display unit 521 is displayed. When the image viewer presses a “category” link that is a component of the “display method switching” link L117, the display is switched to the photo album list screen (category display) L12.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a photo album list screen (category display).
As shown in FIG. 14, the photo album list screen (category display) L12 has an area L121 for displaying community information and an area L122 for displaying a photo album list, as with the photo album list screen (album display) L11. . The difference from the photo album list screen (album display) L11 is that the photo album list display area L122 displays photo albums in units of categories.
Here, for example, in the case of transition to the “ABC community” photo album list screen (category display), the category “ceremony” representative image in the photo album list display area L122 has a photo shooting date 5366 in the image supplementary information management table. Among the images included in the period from “2006/11/3 13:00” to “2006/11/3 13:29” (two images with image IDs “I001” and “I002”). The thumbnail image of the first extracted image (for example, Image002.jpg) is displayed.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a photo album list screen (group display).
As shown in FIG. 15, the photo album list screen (group display) L13 has an area L131 for displaying community information and an area L132 for displaying a photo album list, as with the photo album list screen (album display) L11. . The difference from the photo album list screen (album display) L11 is that the photo album list display area L132 displays photo albums in groups.
Here, for example, when transitioning to the “ABC community” photo album list screen (group display), the image owner ID 5353 of the image management table is “ Among the images of “U001” or “U002”, a thumbnail image of an image (for example, Image003.jpg) extracted first by the image display unit 521 is displayed.

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image list screen.
As shown in FIG. 16, the image list screen L14 is displayed on the photo album list screen (album display) L11, the photo album list screen (category display) L12, or the photo album list screen (group display) L13. When one album is selected from the album L112, the screen displays a list of images in the selected album. This image list screen L14 has an area L141 for displaying images in the photo album as thumbnails and an area L142 for displaying data managed in the image supplementary information management table such as the photographer, shooting date, and comments.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image enlargement display screen.
As shown in FIG. 17, the image enlargement display screen L15 is a screen that enlarges and displays the selected image when the guest selects one image from the image L141 displayed on the image list screen L14.
This enlarged image display screen L15 is managed by an enlarged display image display area L151 and an image incidental information management table such as a photographer, a shooting date, a file name, a size, a camera manufacturer, a camera model, a copyright, and a comment. An area L152 for displaying data, a “download” button L153 for downloading an original image to the image browsing terminal 6, and a “print order” button L154 for transmitting image information to a print ordering site for placing a print order , “Previous Image” and “Next Image” links for switching display images.

1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the example of an image registration terminal. It is a block diagram which shows the example of a photo album site. It is a figure which shows the example of a community management table. It is a figure which shows the example of a recording medium ID management table. It is a figure which shows the example of an album management table. It is a figure which shows the example of an image management table. It is a figure which shows the example of an image supplementary information management table. It is an image registration flowchart figure. FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a recording medium ID collation process. It is a figure which shows the example of a category management table. It is a figure which shows the example of a group management table. It is a figure which shows the example of a photo album list screen (album display). It is a figure which shows the example of a photo album list screen (category display). It is a figure which shows the example of a photo album list screen (group display). It is a figure which shows the example of an image list screen. It is a figure which shows the example of an image expansion display screen.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Image photographing terminal 2 ... Recording medium with ID function 3 ... Image registration terminal 4 ... Internet 5 ... Photo album site 6 ... Image browsing terminal 7 ... SNS management terminal 8 ... Online print site

Claims (7)

An event image publishing system that publishes digital images taken at events such as weddings and athletic events on the Internet to users designated by image registrants.
An image registration terminal for transferring an image taken by an image registrant to a server device at a photo album site or an SNS site, and the server device for publishing an image transferred from the image registration terminal to a user designated by the image registrant And an image browsing terminal for browsing images published by the user, an online print site for accepting print order requests from the image browsing terminal, and an SNS management terminal for managing a photo album site or an SNS site,
The image registration terminal includes an ID reading unit that reads a recording medium in which an image captured by an image capturing terminal such as a digital camera is stored or an ID of the image capturing terminal itself, and an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data from the recording medium And transmission means for adding the ID to the header portion of the acquired image data and transmitting it to the server device,
The server device checks whether or not the ID transmitted from the image registration terminal is registered with the ID registered in the recording medium ID management table. If the ID is not registered, the received ID is recorded in the recording medium ID management. After registering in the table, the user ID is issued, and an image folder corresponding to the user ID is newly created in the image database, and the image registration destination image folder is notified to the image registration terminal, When the ID transmitted from the image registration terminal has already been registered, an ID collating means for notifying the image registration terminal of a folder to which image data is to be transmitted, and the image data transmitted from the image registration terminal Image data recording means for recording in an image folder corresponding to the user ID, and browsing from the image browsing terminal of the user designated by the image registrant for the registered image And an image publishing unit for transmitting, in response to a determined,
The image browsing terminal includes image browsing means for transmitting a request for browsing image data to the server device and displaying the image data received from the server device,
The SNS management terminal includes an SNS management means for managing an image publishing service such as an online photo album or SNS provided by the server device.   The image publishing means of the server device searches the supplementary information added to the image data in accordance with the viewing conditions specified in the viewing request from the user's image viewing terminal, and the supplementary information that matches the viewing conditions is added. The event image disclosure system according to claim 1, further comprising search means for acquiring acquired image data from the image database and transmitting the acquired image data to an image browsing terminal as a browsing request source.   2. The server apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a print order receiving unit that receives a print order of an image published from the image browsing terminal of the user and transmits the print order to an online print site. 2. The event image disclosure system according to 2.   The event image publishing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the image publishing unit of the server device includes a unit that edits an image for each image registrant and transmits the image to an image browsing terminal. .   The image publishing unit of the server device includes a unit that edits an image in a category unit obtained by subdividing a community according to time and transmits the edited image to an image browsing terminal. Event image publishing system.   The image publishing unit of the server device includes a unit that edits an image in units of groups to which an image registrant belongs and transmits the edited image to an image browsing terminal. Event image disclosure system.     The event image publishing system according to any one of claims 4 to 6, wherein the image publishing unit of the server device includes a unit that switches an image display mode in units of image registrants, categories, and groups. .

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