KR20060053477A - Method and system for storing image information - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for storing image information in which personal information of a photographed person can be automatically stored in an image when photographing to generate an image. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image storage system including: a mobile communication terminal for storing unique personal information of a person and wirelessly transmitting unique personal information; And an image generating apparatus for photographing a person having a mobile communication terminal to generate an image, and inserting and storing unique personal information received from the mobile communication terminal into the image.

Description

Method and system for storing image information

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an image information storage system according to the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing image information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3A to 3C are diagrams showing contents displayed to a user at each step of the image information storage method of the present invention.

4A is a diagram illustrating an image information structure received and stored by a user, and FIG. 4B is a diagram illustrating a structure of setting personal information received and stored by a user and unique personal information received and stored by a mobile communication terminal.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying personal information to a user according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

6 illustrates a selection menu according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method and system for storing image information. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method and system for automatically receiving information of people photographed in an image from a mobile communication terminal possessed by a person and storing the information in the image.

Recently, due to the development of electronic technology, electronic products with various functions are subsequently introduced to the market. Among them, products that combine digital cameras, mobile phones, and MP3 players are on the market, allowing users to capture, store and transmit images anytime, anywhere.

However, the conventional method simply stores the photographed image, and uploads the stored image to the Internet site through its own computer or mobile terminal or downloads the image from the Internet site, the user uses a separate editing program. Inevitably, I had to enter information about it, resulting in inconvenience.

In addition, when photographing another person to generate an image, or when photographing a plurality of people to generate an image, in order to transmit the image to another person or a plurality of people, the photographer records the other person and personal information of each person. Inconvenience to store has resulted.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems of the prior art, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention, when generating a picture by taking a picture, the personal information of the person can be automatically stored in the image It is to provide a method and system for storing image information.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image storage system including: a mobile communication terminal for storing unique personal information of a person and wirelessly transmitting unique personal information; And an image generating apparatus for photographing a person having a mobile communication terminal to generate an image, and inserting and storing unique personal information received from the mobile communication terminal into the image.

The image generating apparatus may correspond to and store unique personal information in an area corresponding to the person on the image, and display the unique personal information to the user when the user selects an area corresponding to the person on the displayed image.

In addition, the image generating apparatus described above, the photographing unit for photographing the person to generate an image; A display unit which displays an image to a user; An input unit configured to set an area corresponding to a person on an image according to a user input value and to select an area corresponding to the person in an image displayed to the user according to a user input value; A storage unit for inserting and storing the unique personal information and the set personal information input from the user into the image so as to correspond to the person; And outputting the unique personal information, the set personal information and the image to the storage unit so that the unique personal information and the set personal information correspond to the area corresponding to the person, and if the area corresponding to the person is selected, the unique personal information corresponding to the selected area. According to the setting personal information may include an image editing unit for outputting to the display unit with the image.

The image generating apparatus may further include a personal information storage unit for storing the unique personal information of the user, and may store the unique personal information of the user in association with the image according to the user's selection.

In addition, the image generating apparatus described above may insert and store image information including one or more of a display mode that defines a method of displaying unique personal information and a disclosure mode that defines disclosure items of unique personal information.

On the other hand, the image information storage method of the present invention for achieving the above-described technical problem, by receiving the unique personal information from the mobile communication terminal for storing the unique personal information of the person and wirelessly transmits the unique personal information, to the image photographed person An image information storage method for inserting and storing unique personal information so as to correspond, the method comprising: (a) photographing a person in a mobile communication terminal to generate an image, and receiving unique personal information of the person transmitted from the mobile communication terminal; (b) inserting and storing unique personal information into an image so as to correspond to an area corresponding to a person; (c) displaying the stored image to the user according to the image output command of the user; (d) receiving an area corresponding to the person in the image according to a user's selection signal; And (e) outputting the stored unique personal information to the user so as to correspond to the selected area.

In addition, the step (b) described above, the step of outputting the image and the unique personal information to the user, receiving the image information and setting personal information, and the area corresponding to the person in the image from the user; And inserting setting personal information and unique personal information into an image so as to correspond to an area corresponding to the person, and inserting and storing the image information into the image.

In addition, the above-described image information preferably includes at least one of a display mode that defines a manner of displaying the unique personal information and a disclosure mode that defines the disclosure items of the unique personal information.

In addition, the above-described setting personal information includes coordinate value information indicating an area corresponding to a person, priority information for determining priority to be displayed among personal information items, and masking information for setting a personal information item not to be disclosed according to the disclosure mode. It is preferable to include at least one of.

In addition, the above-mentioned unique personal information includes feature information storing the characteristics of the person or object on which the image was taken, and the person's ID, the person's name, the person's phone number, the person's e-mail address, the person's homepage address, and the person's homepage. It is preferable to include at least one of the photographing date.

Hereinafter, an image information storage system and method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an image information storage system according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, the image information storage system of the present invention generates and stores an image by capturing a mobile communication terminal 10 carried by a person (hereinafter, referred to as a “person”) and a person or an object. An image generating apparatus 20 is included.

The mobile communication terminal 10 stores the unique personal information (hereinafter referred to as “unique personal information”) of the person whose image is taken, and wirelessly transmits the stored unique personal information according to the person's transmission command or at a predetermined time period. It performs the function.

The image generating apparatus 20 photographs a person carrying the mobile communication terminal 10 to generate an image including the person, and the image generating apparatus 20 is located in an area corresponding to the person on the image from a user who uses the image generating apparatus 20. It receives the area setting value for the input and stores the unique personal information received from the mobile communication terminal 10 is inserted into the image so as to be associated with the area corresponding to the person.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the person's mobile communication terminal 10 includes a storage unit 11, a control unit 13, and a transceiver unit 15. The storage unit 11 stores unique personal information including a person's name, a feature, a phone number, an e-mail address, and a homepage address. The control unit 13 reads out the unique personal information from the storage unit 11 and outputs it to the transmission / reception unit 15 when a command for wirelessly transmitting the unique personal information is input from the person or at a predetermined time period. When the unique personal information is input from the control unit 13, the transceiver 15 wirelessly transmits the unique personal information at a predetermined frequency.

In addition, the mobile communication terminal 10 according to another embodiment of the present invention may transmit the unique personal information to the transmitter when the control unit 13 receives a command to wirelessly transmit the unique personal information from the person or at a predetermined time period. When commanded, the transceiver 15 may read the unique personal information stored in the storage 11 and wirelessly transmit it at a predetermined frequency.

On the other hand, the mobile communication terminal 10 of the present invention is not limited to a specific electronic device as long as it can transmit wirelessly stored unique personal information such as a mobile phone, PDA, pocket PC. In addition, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that as described above, the device may be manufactured as a device dedicated to storing unique personal information and wirelessly transmitting the personal information according to a user's command or at a predetermined time period.                     

Meanwhile, the image generating apparatus 20 includes a transceiver 23, a storage 21, an image editing unit 25, a photographing unit 27, a display unit 28, and an input unit 29. The photographing unit 27 photographs a person carrying the mobile communication terminal 10, generates an image, and outputs the image to the image editing unit 25. The display unit 28 displays the photographed image and the stored image to a user (hereinafter, referred to as a “user”) of the image generating apparatus 20.

The input unit 29 may be implemented in various forms such as a keypad, a mouse, or a touch screen, and performs a function of receiving a command and a setting value from a user. The input unit 29 sets an area corresponding to the person photographed on the image according to a user input value and outputs the area to the image editing unit 25. In addition, an image selection unit 25 outputs an area selection value for selecting an area corresponding to the person on the image output to the user according to the user's input value.

The transceiver 23 receives the unique personal information transmitted wirelessly and outputs it to the image editing unit 25.

The storage unit 21 inserts and stores the image information input from the user into the image generated by the photographing unit 27 and inserts and stores the unique personal information and the set personal information input from the user into the image so as to correspond to the person. .

The image editing unit 25 outputs the unique personal information input from the transmitting and receiving unit 23, the image information and setting personal information input from the input unit 29, and the image input from the photographing unit 27 to the storage unit 21. Insert the image information into the image and save it. In addition, the image editing unit 25 inserts and stores the unique personal information and the set personal information into the image so as to be linked to an area corresponding to the person. In addition, the image editing unit 25 reads from the storage unit 21 an image in which personal information of a person included in the image is inserted and is displayed to the user. When an area corresponding to the person is selected, the image editing unit 25 corresponds to the selected area. The unique personal information is output to the display unit 28 together with the image according to the set personal information.

The image generating apparatus 20 of the present invention is not limited to a specific type of electronic device as long as it is possible to generate and store images by photographing and to receive unique personal information from the mobile communication terminal 10. Therefore, the image generating device 20 of the present invention may be implemented as a digital camera or a mobile phone, a PDA, a pocket PC, or the like in which the camera is built or connected.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing image information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 3A to 3C are diagrams showing contents displayed to a user at each step of storing image information of the present invention.

2 and 3A to 3C, when the user focuses the camera of the image generating apparatus 20 toward a person and presses a shooting button (not shown), the photographing unit 27 displays an image of the person. It generates and outputs to the image editing unit 25, and receives the unique information from the mobile communication terminal 10 of the person photographed through the transceiver 23, and outputs to the image editing unit 25 (S200). At this time, the mobile communication terminal 10 wirelessly transmits the unique personal information by a command for transmitting the unique personal information of the person whose picture is taken or at a predetermined time period.

The image editing unit 25 outputs the image input from the photographing unit 27 to the user through the display unit 28 and stores only the photographed image or indigenous personal information of the person received from the mobile communication terminal 10. The user is asked whether or not to insert and save the image in the selection menu format as shown in FIG. 3A (S210).

When the user inputs a selection value for the storage method through the input unit 29, the image editing unit 25 examines the user selection value (S220), and when the user simply selects a photo storage item, the image editing unit 25 The image is output to the storage 21 to store only the image in the storage 21 in the same manner as the conventional method (S225).

If the user has selected the item for storing photos and personal information, first output the unique personal information input through the transceiver 23 to the user (S230), and as shown in FIG. 29) input from the user through (S232).

FIG. 4A illustrates an image information structure received and stored from a user, and FIG. 4B illustrates a structure of set personal information received and stored from a user and unique personal information received and stored from the mobile communication terminal 10. Drawing. Referring to FIG. 4A, the image information includes a display mode, a public mode, and other information fields.

The display mode is information that determines how to display the image and the unique personal information to the user.In accordance with the display mode, a method of displaying the unique personal information of the person when an area corresponding to the person is selected in the image, 2. One of a variety of display methods is selected, such as displaying all the unique personal information in the image at the same time as the image output, and displaying each item of the unique personal information according to the priority according to the set time interval.

Disclosure mode is information that sets items to be disclosed among basic unique personal information such as name, phone number, e-mail address, homepage address, date, content, etc., 1. All open, 2. Only open content, 3. All private, and 4 One of the items, such as User Defined, is selected.

The other information is stored in other information, such as a predetermined time interval set in the display mode, additional information about the image.

Referring to FIG. 4B, the personal information stored to correspond to each person included in the image includes setting personal information and unique personal information. The setting personal information includes coordinate values, priority, and masking information. The information includes features, names, telephone numbers, email addresses, homepage addresses, dates, contents, and the like as described above.

The coordinate value information indicates information about a location of an area on an image to be stored so that personal information corresponds. The coordinate value information includes a start coordinate, an end coordinate, and an area mode (circle or square) of the person correspondence area on the image. As will be described later, when the user selects a predetermined area corresponding to the person on the image by a mouse click or the like, the coordinates of the corresponding area are stored as coordinate value information of the set personal information.

The priority information is information for specifying the priority for displaying each item when the display method according to the priority is selected as the personal information display method in the display mode.

The masking information is information specifying an item not to be displayed to the user when the disclosure mode is set to the disclosure mode according to the user definition.                     

On the other hand, when the user completes input of the setting personal information excluding the image information and the coordinate value information, the image editing unit 25 re-outputs the image to the user through the display unit 28, the user sets the personal information and unique personal information Waits for setting an area corresponding to a person on an image to be stored, and the input unit 29 displays an area setting value indicating a location of an area to which personal information on an image is stored according to a user input value. Output to step S234.

According to the present invention, when a plurality of people are included in one image, unique personal information is received from the mobile communication terminal of each person, and the unique personal information of each person is inserted and stored in the image so as to correspond to the image of each person. . Therefore, the user receives an area for storing personal information in association with the personal information. In this case, the user may set the image area corresponding to the personal information of the person in various ways according to the implementation form of the input unit 29, such as a method of dragging and setting the area of the image with the mouse.

When the region setting value is input from the input unit 29, the image editing unit 25 extracts the coordinate value of the region from the same, configures the setting personal information, inserts the image information into the corresponding image, and stores the setting personal information. The unique personal information is inserted and stored in the image so as to correspond to the person area (S236).

By performing the above steps S to S, the user may store the unique personal information to correspond to the person.

Hereinafter, a case in which the user displays a stored image will be described.

When the user inputs an image output command stored through the input unit 29 to the image editing unit 25, the image editing unit 25 reads out the corresponding image stored in the storage unit 21 and outputs the image to the user through the display unit 28. (S240).

When the output image is an image in which personal information is inserted and stored, the image editing unit 25 checks whether a person region selection signal is input from the user through the input unit 29 (S250).

When the person area selection signal is input, the image editing unit 25 examines the coordinate value item of the setting personal information inserted in the image, and displays the unique personal information of the person having the coordinate value item corresponding to the person area selection signal. The display unit 28 outputs the display unit 28 according to the display mode, the disclosure mode, and the set personal information to display to the user (S260).

In the above-described step S, a method of selecting a person area by the user may be variously implemented. In the simplest manner, when the user places the mouse over the person area of the image and clicks the left button, the input unit 29 inputs the coordinates at which the mouse is clicked to the image editing unit 25 as the person area selection signal, and the image editing unit ( 25) extracts the personal information corresponding to the area including the coordinate where the mouse is clicked from the area indicated by the coordinate value item of the setting personal information from the image and the one of the area corresponding to the person selected by the user as shown in FIG. Can be marked on the side.

Until now, a method of inserting and storing information wirelessly received from the mobile communication terminal 10 into an image and outputting the image according to a user's command has been described.

On the other hand, in the present invention, a single device such as a camera phone stores the unique personal information and at the same time having a recording unit 27, inserting the unique personal information stored inside the device inside the image generated by the recording unit 27 It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention can be modified to store it.

For example, in a modified embodiment, the image generating apparatus 20 further includes a personal information storage unit (not shown) that stores unique personal information of the user of the image generating apparatus 20, and when the image is generated, the image generating apparatus 20 is illustrated in FIG. 6. As shown, the selection menu is displayed to the user. The item “storing my information” shown in FIG. 6 is an item for inserting and storing the user's unique personal information stored in the personal information storage unit as described above. When the user selects this item, the image editing unit 25 transmits and receives the transceiver. Instead of using the unique personal information input from (23), the method of storing the image information and personal information except for using the unique personal information read from the personal information storage unit (not shown) is the embodiment described above. Is the same as The “storage” item shown in FIG. 6 performs the same function as the “storage picture” item shown in FIG. 3A, and the “storage information” item shown in FIG. 6 is the “photo” and “individual” item shown in FIG. 3A. Since this function is the same as the “Information storage” item, the detailed description is omitted.

In addition, the present invention can be implemented using an RFID chip. For example, the present invention may be implemented by embedding an RFID chip and an antenna storing personal information of a person in the mobile communication terminal 10 and implementing an RFID reader in the image generating device 20. In this case, if the mobile communication terminal 10 of the person who has taken the picture is in close contact with the image generating device 20 immediately after the picture is taken, the mobile communication terminal (by the electromagnetic wave emitted from the image generating device 20 ( Induction electromotive force is generated at 10), the RFID chip is driven by the induced electromotive force, and unique personal information of a person embedded in the RFID chip may be read and transmitted to the image generating apparatus through an antenna.

The invention can also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, which are also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (for example, transmission over the Internet). It also includes. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion.

So far I looked at the center of the preferred embodiment for the present invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential features of the present invention. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. The scope of the present invention is shown in the claims rather than the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope will be construed as being included in the present invention.

As described above, the present invention receives the personal information of the person from the mobile communication terminal of the person included in the image, inserts and stores it in the generated image, the user needs to directly enter the personal information of the person Without, there is an effect that can easily and automatically obtain the personal information of the person included in the image.

Claims (15)

A mobile communication terminal storing unique personal information of a person and wirelessly transmitting the unique personal information; And And an image generating device for generating an image by photographing a person carrying the mobile communication terminal, and inserting and storing the unique personal information received from the mobile communication terminal in the image. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image generating device is And storing the unique personal information in correspondence with an area corresponding to the person on the image, and displaying the unique personal information to the user when the user selects an area corresponding to the person on the displayed image. Storage system. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image generating device is A photographing unit which photographs the person to generate the image; A display unit which displays the image to a user; An input unit configured to set an area corresponding to the person on the image according to the input value of the user and to select an area corresponding to the person in the image displayed to the user according to the input value of the user; A storage unit to insert the unique personal information and the set personal information input from the user into the image so as to correspond to the person and store the inserted personal information; And Outputting the unique personal information, the set personal information, and the image to the storage unit to store the unique personal information and the set personal information so as to correspond to an area corresponding to the person, and when the area corresponding to the person is selected, And an image editing unit for outputting the unique personal information corresponding to the selected area to the display unit along with the image according to the set personal information. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the image generating device is Further comprising a personal information storage unit for storing the unique personal information of the user, And storing the unique personal information of the user in correspondence with the image according to a user's selection. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image generating device comprises: Image information storage comprising inserting and storing image information including at least one of a display mode defining a manner of displaying the unique personal information and a disclosure mode defining disclosure items of the unique personal information in the image; system. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the set personal information is At least one of coordinate value information indicating an area corresponding to the person, priority information for determining a priority to be displayed among the personal information items, and masking information for setting a personal information item not to be disclosed according to a disclosure mode; Image information storage system, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, wherein the unique personal information is Feature information storing features of the person or thing on which the image was taken, and ID of the person, name of the person, phone number of the person, e-mail address of the person, homepage address of the person, and photograph of the person Image information storage system comprising at least one of the shooting date. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal comprises: And transmitting the unique personal information wirelessly at a predetermined time period. Image information storage method for storing the unique personal information of the person and receiving the unique personal information from a mobile communication terminal for wirelessly transmitting the unique personal information, inserting and storing the unique personal information to correspond to the image of the person As (a) photographing the person in the mobile communication terminal to generate an image, and receiving unique personal information of the person transmitted from the mobile communication terminal; (b) inserting and storing the unique personal information into the image so as to correspond to an area corresponding to the person; (c) displaying the stored image to the user according to an image output command of the user; (d) receiving an area corresponding to the person in the image according to a user's selection signal; And (e) outputting the unique personal information stored to correspond to the selected area to a user. The method of claim 9, wherein step (b) Outputting the image and the unique personal information to a user, and receiving image information, setting personal information, and an area corresponding to the person in the image from the user; And And inserting the set personal information and the unique personal information into the image so as to correspond to an area corresponding to the person, and inserting and storing the image information into the image. The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the image information And at least one of a display mode defining a manner of displaying the unique personal information and a disclosure mode defining the disclosure items of the unique personal information. The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the set personal information is At least one of coordinate value information indicating an area corresponding to the person, priority information for determining a priority to be displayed among the personal information items, and masking information for setting a personal information item not to be disclosed according to a disclosure mode; Image information storage method, characterized in that. The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the unique personal information Feature information storing features of the person or thing on which the image was taken, and ID of the person, name of the person, phone number of the person, e-mail address of the person, homepage address of the person, and photograph of the person And at least one of a photographing date. The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the mobile communication terminal And transmitting the unique personal information wirelessly at a predetermined time period. A recording medium in which the image storage method of claim 9 or 10 is readable by a computer and recorded by executable program code.

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