JP5398418B2 - Imaging device, information processing device, program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an imaging apparatus, an information processing apparatus, and a program.

  Conventionally, a digital camera and an information processing device such as a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a PC) are connected with a cable or the like, and information such as image data recorded on a recording medium attached to the digital camera is transmitted to the PC. System has been devised and commercialized.

  At this time, the workload for selecting a new image or an image to be stored in the PC each time the connection is made and loading the PC into the PC is very large for the user.

  Therefore, in Patent Document 1, for example, when an image file is transmitted from the storage area of the recording medium image information to the PC, the transmitted flag corresponding to the transmitted image file is updated from “not transmitted” to “transmitted”. Technology is disclosed.

JP 2003-46931 A

  However, in the technique disclosed in the above-mentioned patent document, for example, when editing such as rotation is performed on the transmitted image in the camera, the image remains edited although the state of the image changes, and the edited image There is a risk of forgetting to send.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to prevent forgetting to send an edited image when an image in a camera captured in an information processing apparatus is edited.

In order to achieve the above object, the imaging prosecution according to the present invention is an imaging device capable of communicating with an information processing device, and includes image information indicating whether the image has already been transmitted to the information processing device. According to the editing request received by the receiving means, the receiving means for receiving the editing request for the image stored in the storage medium of the imaging apparatus from the information processing apparatus, and editing means for editing the image, if you already have edited the image transmitted to the information processing apparatus, the image information corresponding to the previous SL edited image, still unsent not sent to the information processing apparatus It possesses an updating means for updating the state, the transmission unit, and transmits the image information of the edited image to the information processing apparatus.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, when the image in the camera taken in into the information processing apparatus is edited, it is possible to prevent forgetting to send the edited image.

It is a hardware block diagram of the digital camera which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a hardware block diagram of PC concerning embodiment of this invention. It is a sequence diagram concerning the embodiment of the present invention. It is the figure which showed the example of the cache structure which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a sequence diagram concerning the embodiment of the present invention. It is a sequence diagram concerning the embodiment of the present invention. It is a sequence diagram concerning the embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the image information which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

[First Embodiment]
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

<Hardware configuration>
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an imaging apparatus that is an example of an image processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. The imaging device includes a device such as a digital camera that captures a subject and obtains image data, and can communicate with a PC that is an example of an information processing device. In the present embodiment, a digital camera will be described as an example.

  The digital camera 100 includes an optical system 101, an image sensor 102, a CPU 103, a RAM 104, a flash memory 105, a storage medium 106, a display unit 107, an operation unit 108, and a communication unit 109. .

  The optical system 101 includes a lens, a shutter, and an aperture, and forms an image of light from a subject on the image sensor 102 with an appropriate amount and timing. The image sensor 102 converts light imaged through the optical system 101 into an image.

  The CPU 103 performs various calculations and controls each part of the digital camera 100 in accordance with the input signal and program.

  The RAM 104 is a volatile memory that stores temporary data, and is used for work of the CPU 103.

  The flash memory 105 is a nonvolatile memory that stores a program (firmware) for controlling the digital camera 100 and various setting information.

  The storage medium 106 stores captured image data and the like. Note that the storage medium 106 can be removed after shooting, and data can be read out by being attached to a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a PC). That is, the digital camera 100 only needs to have access means to the storage medium 106 and read / write data from / to the storage medium 106.

  A display unit 107 displays a viewfinder image at the time of shooting, displays a shot image, and displays characters for interactive operation. Note that the display unit 107 does not need to be included in the digital camera 100, and the digital camera 100 only needs to have a display control function for controlling the display of the display unit 201.

  The operation unit 108 is for accepting a user operation. For example, a button, a lever, a touch panel, or the like can be used as the operation unit 108.

  A communication unit 109 connects to an external device and transmits / receives control commands and data. As a protocol for establishing a connection and performing data communication, for example, PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) is used. The communication unit 109 may perform communication by wired connection such as a USB (Universal Serial Bus) cable. Further, communication may be performed through a wireless connection such as a wireless LAN. Further, it may be directly connected to an external device, or may be connected to the external device via a server or a network such as the Internet.

  For example, a PC is used as an information processing apparatus to which the present embodiment is applied. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a PC 200 that is an example of the information processing apparatus.

  The PC 200 includes a display unit 201, an operation unit 202, a CPU 203, a RAM 204, a flash memory 205, and a communication unit 206. Since the basic function of each component is the same as that of the digital camera 100, a detailed description is omitted here. Note that a display device such as an LCD is used for the display unit 201. The display unit 201 does not need to be included in the PC 200, and the PC 200 may have a display control function for controlling the display of the display unit 201. Furthermore, as the operation unit 202, a keyboard, a mouse, or the like can be used.

<Startup process>
Next, FIG. 3 shows a sequence when the application software is activated. Note that the following processing of the digital camera 100 is realized by the CPU 103 controlling each unit of the digital camera 100 in accordance with an input signal or a program. The processing of the PC 200 is realized by the CPU 203 controlling each part of the PC 200 according to an input signal or a program.

  First, when the digital camera 100 is connected to the PC 200 by a user operation, the PC 200 activates application software stored in the flash memory 205 (T301).

  Next, in T <b> 302, the PC 200 transmits a command requesting image information (image thumbnails, file stamps, transmitted flags, etc.) related to the images stored in the storage medium 106 to the digital camera 100. The digital camera 100 transmits the image information requested in T302 to the PC 200. The PC 200 receives the image information, and holds the received image information as a cache in the RAM 204 (T304). FIG. 4A shows an example of the data structure of the cache. In T305, the PC 200 reads the cache from the RAM 204 and displays thumbnails of the respective images on the display unit 201. In T306, the PC 200 refers to the transmitted flag of the image information, and displays an untransmitted icon in the vicinity of the image for an image whose transmitted flag of the image information is Off. In this way, it is easy to determine which image the user has not transmitted. The above is the processing when the application software is activated.

<Image transmission processing>
Hereinafter, the image transmission processing in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, a description will be given using the sequence of FIG. It is assumed that the sequence of FIG. 3 has already been completed. In T501, the PC 200 requests the digital camera 100 to specify an image and send it. For example, when PTP is used, the PC 200 designates an image using a number for identifying an object called a PTP object handle (hereinafter referred to as “handle”). In the example of FIG. 5, an image of the handle “2” is requested. Receiving this request, the digital camera 100 transmits the designated image to the PC 200 (T502). The PC 200 receives the image transmitted from the digital camera 100 and stores it in the flash memory 205.

  When the specified image is saved by the PC 200, the PC 200 transmits a request to the digital camera 100 to turn on the transmitted flag of the image in the specified digital camera 100 (T503). Further, the PC 200 updates the cache shown in FIG. 4A (T505), and hides the unsent icon of the designated image displayed on the display unit 201.

  An example of the updated cache is shown in FIG. In the example of FIG. 5, since the image of the handle 2 is saved by the PC 200, the transmitted flag of the handle 2 in the cache is changed from OFF to ON. Then, the unsent icon displayed together with the thumbnail corresponding to the handle 2 is hidden.

<Edit processing for sent images>
Next, processing when an image already transmitted from the digital camera 100 to the PC 200 is edited will be described. FIG. 6 shows processing when a rotation request, which is an example of an editing request, is transmitted from the PC 200 to an image on the digital camera 100 side that has already been transmitted. It is assumed that the process shown in FIG. 5 has been executed before this process.

  First, the PC 200 transmits a rotation request for an already transmitted image among the images on the digital camera 100 side to the digital camera 100 (T601). Upon receiving the rotation request, the digital camera 100 rotates the image stored in the storage medium 106 (T602) and turns off the transmitted flag of the image (T603). Then, the digital camera 100 notifies the PC 200 that the rotation process has been completed by transmitting an event (T604).

  The PC 200 that has received the event transmits an image information acquisition request to the digital camera 100 (T605). On the other hand, the digital camera 100 transmits image information (thumbnail, file stamp, transmission information, etc.) of the rotated image to the PC 200 (T606).

  The PC 200 updates the cache based on the image information received again. An example of the updated cache is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4C, the transmitted flag of the image of the handle 2 is turned off again. The digital camera 100 displays a thumbnail of the rotated image on the display unit 201 and also displays an unsent icon based on the cache (T608).

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, when editing is performed on a transmitted image in the camera, the image to be edited is treated as an untransmitted image. This can prevent forgetting to send the edited image.

[Second Embodiment]
The second embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. When the image rotation process is executed and the rotation process is further executed as in the first embodiment, for example, in the case of a 360-degree rotation process, the result returns to the same state as the transmitted image. In this case, it is desirable that the same image is not transmitted twice by not transmitting it to the PC 200 as a transmitted image, rather than transmitting it to the PC 200 again as an untransmitted image. This embodiment will be described based on this point. Since this embodiment has many parts in common with the first embodiment, description of common parts will be omitted, and description will be made centering on parts specific to this embodiment.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a processing sequence between the digital camera 100 and the PC 200 in the present embodiment. T701 to T706 are the same processes as T501 to T506 in FIG.

  In the present embodiment, the PC 200 adds the transmitted image information to the database in the flash memory 205. An example of image information to be added to the database is shown in FIG. The database associates the handle 801, the image ID 802, and the editing information 803 and manages them as one piece of image information.

  The area of editing information 803 has an information area indicating an editing state for each editing content. For example, rotation also has a rotation information area, and rotation information 804 is described in this area. As a format of the value, for example, 0 is no rotation, 1 is 90 ° rotation, 2 is 180 ° rotation, and 3 is 270 ° rotation. For example, considering the example shown in FIG. 7, the handle is 2 and the rotation information is 0, so the image information in the database is as shown in FIG. 8B.

  The PC 200 refers to this database and compares the image information transmitted at T606 in FIG. 6 with the information in the database. If they are the same, a request is sent to the digital camera 100 to turn on the sent flag, and if they are different, a request is sent to the digital camera 100 to turn on the sent flag.

[Other Embodiments]
As mentioned above, although preferable embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to these embodiment, A various deformation | transformation and change are possible within the range of the summary.

  The present invention can also be realized by executing the following processing. That is, software (program) that realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus via a network or various storage media, and a computer (or CPU, MPU, or the like) of the system or apparatus reads the program. It is a process to be executed.

Claims (11)

An imaging device capable of communicating with an information processing device,
Transmitting means for transmitting an image and image information indicating whether or not the image has already been transmitted to the information processing device;
Receiving means for receiving an edit request for an image stored in a storage medium of the imaging apparatus from the information processing apparatus;
Editing means for editing the image according to the editing request received by the receiving means ;
If you already have edited the image transmitted to the information processing apparatus, the image information corresponding to the edited image, yet perforated and updating means for updating the unsent state not transmitted to the information processing apparatus ,
The transmission unit transmits image information of an edited image to the information processing apparatus. An information processing device capable of communicating with an imaging device,
Receiving means for receiving from the imaging device an image and image information indicating whether the image has already been transmitted to the information processing device;
Management means for managing the image based on the image information;
Transmission means for transmitting an editing request for an image stored in a storage medium of the imaging device to the imaging device;
After transmitting the editing request for the image already received by the receiving means by the transmitting means, the receiving means receives the image information again,
The information processing apparatus, wherein the management unit treats an image corresponding to the image information as an image that has not been received yet, based on the image information received again by the receiving unit. The management means manages the editing state of the image,
When the editing state indicated by the image information received again by the receiving unit and the editing state managed by the managing unit are the same, the managing unit treats the image corresponding to the image information as an already received image, and When the editing state indicated by the image information received again by the means differs from the editing state managed by the management means, the management means treats the image corresponding to the image information as an image that has not yet been received. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2. And further comprising display means for displaying on the display section information indicating whether the image and the image are already received images,
When the image information corresponding to the already received image is received by the receiving means, the display means updates information indicating whether the image has already been received based on the image information corresponding to the already received image. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the information processing apparatus is an information processing apparatus.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display unit displays an icon indicating that the image has not been received yet in the vicinity of an image that has not been received yet. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the editing state includes image rotation information. In response to receiving from the information processing apparatus a request for image information relating to the image on which the editing has been performed following the editing request, the transmission means sends image information on the image on which the editing has been performed to the information The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the imaging apparatus transmits the image to a processing apparatus. An imaging device control method capable of communicating with an information processing device,
A transmission step of transmitting an image and image information indicating whether or not the image has already been transmitted to the information processing device;
A receiving step of receiving an edit request for an image stored in a storage medium of the imaging device from the information processing device;
Editing the image according to the editing request received in the receiving step,
When an image that has already been transmitted to the information processing apparatus has been edited, in the editing step, the image information corresponding to the image is updated to an untransmitted state that has not yet been transmitted to the information processing apparatus, and the transmission step Then, the control method of an imaging device, wherein image information of an image that has been edited is transmitted to the information processing device. An information processing apparatus control method capable of communicating with an imaging apparatus,
A receiving step of receiving an image and image information indicating whether the image has already been transmitted to the information processing apparatus;
A management step of managing the image based on the image information;
A transmission step of transmitting an edit request for an image stored in a storage medium of the imaging device to the imaging device;
In the transmission step, after transmitting an edit request for the image already received in the reception step, the reception step receives image information again,
In the management step, an image processing apparatus control method , wherein an image corresponding to the image information is handled as an image that has not yet been received based on the image information received again in the reception step. A computer-readable program for causing a computer to function as each unit of the imaging apparatus according to claim 1 or 7 .   A computer-readable program for causing a computer to function as each unit of the information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 2 to 6.

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