Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at same station – Radiotelephone equipment detail
Reexamination Certificate
2002-07-03
2004-12-14
Corsaro, Nick (Department: 2684)
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at same station
Radiotelephone equipment detail
C455S414100, C455S418000, C455S003060, C348S211200
Reexamination Certificate
active
06832101
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an intermediary distribution method of a photographic subject image, which collects, stores and distributes a photographic subject image that an image reader wants to watch, by intermediating an image photographer who photographs an image of a photographic subject using portable equipment with a digital camera function and the image reader who extracts a photographed image onto portable equipment at hand via a data communications network. It is especially related with a method of specifying a photographic subject image, and a method of photographing an image of the specified photographic subject, registering the photographed image and acquiring the specified image by utilizing the data communications network.
BACKGROUND ART
As a conventional art example 1, a recording classification system for a photographed image by using an electronic still camera based on a classification code, disclosed in “Recording Classification System for an Electronic Still Camera” of Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 5-344460 will now be described.
FIG. 25
shows a configuration illustrating the recording classification system for an electronic still camera.
FIG. 25
shows a part selected from the figure in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 5-344460 because the part considered to be related to the present invention.
In
FIG. 25
, the following are provided: an electronic still camera
100
for photographing a digital image, a key input part
101
for inputting a classification code etc. into the electronic still camera, a memory part
102
for storing an image of the electronic still camera
100
and a classification code, an LCD
103
for displaying an image of the electronic still camera
100
and a character, a classification mode key
104
, a classification code input key
105
, a multi-code key
106
, a track map key
107
, a classification code display key
108
, and a classification code delete key
109
.
In the “Recording Classification System for an Electronic Still Camera”, a classification code is input for each photographic subject image photographed by the electronic still camera
100
, utilizing the classification mode key
104
and the classification code input key
105
of the key input part
101
. Then, the image and the classification code are recorded in the memory part
102
.
When displaying the image on the LCD
103
, the classification code is again input from the classification code input key
105
, and the image corresponding to the classification code is displayed one by one from the memory part
102
.
In the conventional art example 1, the classification code is used for classifying and searching a photographic subject image which has been photographed, and is not used for specifying a photographic subject. Therefore, it is impossible to specify a photographic subject by using the classification code. Moreover, this classification code is assigned to another image in other electronic still cameras. Naturally, photographic subjects of images between other electronic still cameras are different. Therefore, generally, the classification code is not a code that is used for identifying only one photographic subject image. A role of the classification code is just classifying a photographic subject image in a specific electronic still camera.
As a conventional art example 2, a specification and transmission system of a photographed image using an image number, disclosed in “Digital Camera” of Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-224676 will now be described.
FIG. 26
shows a part selected from the figure in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-224676 because the part considered to be related to the present invention.
In
FIG. 26
, the following are provided: a digital camera
120
, a control part
121
of the digital camera
120
, a lens
122
, a digital image photograph part
123
for changing an input through a lens into an image, and an image number produce part
124
for producing an image number to be inserted in a photographed image. In addition, as described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-224676, the image number is also used as a file name in the case of storing a photographed image in the digital camera
120
, and it is possible to search a photographed image by using the image number. A character line insert part
125
for inserting a produced image number into a photographed image, a wireless part
126
for transmitting a photographed image to an image data processing apparatus in a remote place, a WWW server/client part
127
for performing a data transmission with the data-processing apparatus in a remote place by using the wireless part, a large-sized display part
128
, a memory part
129
for storing a photographed image, photograph conditions and a character line to be inserted in a photographed image, and an operation part for 130 for inputting photograph conditions.
In Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-224676, it is descried about a digital camera which has a function to transmit image data stored in a memory part of the digital camera to a data-processing apparatus in a remote place by wireless. The digital camera
120
in this document projects an image number produced in the image number produce part
124
onto image data to be transmitted, and the image to be transmitted is identified by this image number. Furthermore, this image number is also used as a file name at the time of storing in the memory part
129
.
Unlike the conventional art example 1, this image number is not used for classifying an image but used for identifying a photographic image of the subject, and it is possible to specify an image on the digital camera
120
. Photograph conditions are input from the operation part
130
, and temporarily stored in the memory part
129
. Then, it is also possible to copy the photograph conditions into a photographed image as a character line by using the character line insert part
125
. However, the image number described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-224676 is used for specifying an image but not used for specifying a photographic subject itself. Though it is possible to specify an image which has been photographed by using the image number and to assign the image number to an image to be photographed, it is not possible to specify a photographic subject.
Moreover, though the image number is produced in the image number produce part
124
of the digital camera
120
and assigned to a photographic subject image, conditions outside of the digital camera
120
are not taken into consideration. For example, as a number is assigned independently in other digital camera
120
, it could happen to assign the same number for different photographic subject images in two digital cameras. Therefore, for the above reason, when images are transmitted from a plurality of digital cameras to a data-processing apparatus, it is not guaranteed that an image number is not duplicated. Then, it is impossible to build an image database where registration and search of a photographed image is performed by the image number.
As a conventional art example 3, image database registration/search system using a symbol ID disclosed in “Multimedia Information Terminal Apparatus” of Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-143520 will now be described.
FIGS. 27 through 30
show parts selected from the figures in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-143520 because the parts considered to be related to the present invention. Regarding
FIG. 29
, in order to clarify the relation with the present invention, the “file management data” described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-143520 is replaced with a “symbol list” in the present invention, and the “GPS information file” in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-143520 is replaced with an “attached information file”.
FIG. 27
shows a configuration of information terminal side according to an image file management system by using a symbol ID, based on a multimedia infor
Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP.
Corsaro Nick
Mitsubishi Denki & Kabushiki Kaisha
Orgao Edan
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