CN100401817C - System and method for restricting use of camera of a mobile terminal - Google Patents

System and method for restricting use of camera of a mobile terminal Download PDF

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CN100401817C
CN100401817C CNB2003101243943A CN200310124394A CN100401817C CN 100401817 C CN100401817 C CN 100401817C CN B2003101243943 A CNB2003101243943 A CN B2003101243943A CN 200310124394 A CN200310124394 A CN 200310124394A CN 100401817 C CN100401817 C CN 100401817C
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The invention relates to a usage limitation system and method of the digital camera built in the portable terminal, which can limit the photograph function, and protect personal privacy and security information by the location information of the portable terminal with photograph function and the location information of the photograph limitation area when the portable terminal enters the photograph limitation area. In the method, the base station can real-time observe the location information (GPS global positioning system) of the portable terminal with photograph function by the base station or the man-made satellite, and the base station compares the pre-set location information in the no-photo area with the location information of the portable terminal, if the portable terminal is detected to enter the no-photo area, the no-photo signal is transmitted to the portal terminal, and the photograph function of the portable terminal is temporarily limited. So that the photograph in the no self-photo area is blocked at the root, and privacy offence can be prevented and the secret information can be prevented from revelation.

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The use restriction system and the method for the digital camera of using in the portable terminal device
Technical field
The present invention relates to the use restriction system and the method for the digital camera used in a kind of portable terminal device; the positional information of positional information of its portable terminal device by having camera function and photography restricted area; when portable terminal device enters above-mentioned photography restricted area; can limit camera function, protection individual privacy and security information.
Background technology
With regard to the portable terminal device of present use, communication speed is improved, and internal storage and processing speed are improved, but also has added multiple function.Wherein,, photo not only can be shown, activity video can also be appreciated by the expansion of display unit and the improvement of reveal competence.In addition,, can play and generate various multi-medium datas, therefore, think once in the past that inessential function established the position gradually along with development of technology.Camera-enabled for example, when occurring at first, it uses also seldom, but raising along with resolution, its purposes enlarges day by day, has developed into the use field of existing digital camera even, has developed the product that can take the photo/activity video that surpasses million pixels at present.
What this digital camera had is built in the portable terminal device, and the plug-in that utilizes that has provides, and when needing camera module is connected to portable terminal device, is applied to portable terminal device by this way.
This digital camera that is built in the portable terminal device can be used for multiple use, because the time of carrying is a lot, can preserve photo or activity video everywhere, therefore, not only can take general photo based on entertaining, when particular incident takes place, can also take the photo of the incident that can prove.In addition,, also can preserve into photo or activity video, it is analyzed and studies if find self interested object.Moreover, can also send the photo of such shooting to other people with the form of multimedia messages recently, when using the image conversation, can also be in real time to the other side's transitive graph picture in a distant place.
Though this camera-enabled provides a great convenience for the portable terminal device user,, the harm that causes owing to the without stint shooting also emerges in an endless stream, even becomes social problems.
The user who particularly carries portable terminal device is many, because on the portable terminal device characteristic, other people are difficult to know when built-in camera starts, so the leakage of pirates shoot phenomenon or security information may take place.
For example, in the showground of forbidding photographing, museum or military restricted zone, may take place to take without authorization, internal staff or external reference person can easily obtain quality merchandise information, and its leakage is gone out.
Thisly take the harm not only can cause information leakage without authorization, and individual privacy has also been caused grievous injury, wherein very serious to other people phenomenon of unrestrictedly taking pictures, surmounted the privacy infringement, reached the degree of intimate criminal offence.For example, in the shooting without authorization of swimming pool, in the shooting without authorization of bathing pool, caused psychological sense of insecurity to people even, do not known when oneself is taken, this psychological uneasiness is being diffused into the whole society.
Therefore, need badly this is made laws, or develop the function that can limit shooting.
Summary of the invention
As mentioned above, there was such problem, promptly in the past; owing to can use the built-in camera-enabled of portable terminal device not have any reference object restrictedly whenever and wherever possible; and other people are difficult to find, therefore, invasion of privacy may take place or cause the information that should protect to be revealed.
In view of this problem, the object of the present invention is to provide the use restriction system and the method for the digital camera of using in a kind of portable terminal device, in the method, the base station can have the positional information (GPS GPS system information) of the portable terminal device of camera function by base station or artificial satellite real time monitoring, the base station compares the positional information of forbidding shooting area positional information and above-mentioned portable terminal device that sets in advance, if entering, portable terminal device forbids shooting area, then forbid taking signal to the portable terminal device transmission, the camera function of temporary transient restriction portable terminal device, thus can prevent to take without authorization in the area of forbidding taking without authorization.
For achieving the above object, feature of the present invention is to comprise following several sections: the base station, it continues to observe the positional information of portable terminal device, to forbid that the positional information of shooting area and the positional information of portable terminal device compare, and be in when forbidding shooting area when the position of portable terminal device, transmission forbids taking signal, when above-mentioned portable terminal device leaves correspondingly when forbidding shooting area, then sends to remove and forbids taking signal; The portable terminal device that has camera function, forbid shooting and releasing that it receives above-mentioned base station provides forbid taking signal, and whether control uses camera function.
In addition, feature of the present invention is to comprise following several steps: step 1, the serving BS persistent surveillance has the positional information of the portable terminal device of camera function, and above-mentioned base station portable terminal position of obtaining and the positional information of forbidding shooting area of preserving are in advance compared; Step 2, the portable terminal position of obtaining when above-mentioned base station be in advance preserve forbid in the shooting area time, forbid taking signal to above-mentioned portable terminal device transmission, the camera function of restriction portable terminal device; Step 3, the position of the portable terminal device of obtaining when above-mentioned base station leave preserve in advance forbid shooting area the time, remove to above-mentioned portable terminal device transmission and to forbid taking signal, remove restriction to the camera function of portable terminal device.
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Fig. 1 is a simple pie graph of the present invention, is intended to illustrate notion of the present invention.Enter and forbid shooting area (10) if the objective of the invention is to have the portable terminal device (30) of digital camera function, then limit camera function.For this reason, the serving BS (20) that continues to communicate with portable terminal device (30) must have the positional information of forbidding shooting area about above-mentioned, and should continue the positional information that (also can in real time) monitors above-mentioned portable terminal device (30).
Generally speaking, the positional information of portable terminal device (30), promptly the GPS GPS system information can be obtained by several different methods, and above-mentioned portable terminal device of the first (30) and artificial satellite communicate and measure the position of self, send serving BS (20) then to; It two is by the signal transport delay between a plurality of adjacent base stations and the above-mentioned portable terminal device (30), calculates the positional information of above-mentioned portable terminal device (30).In addition, the multiple method that obtains portable terminal device (30) positional information has also been proposed at present.In the present invention, the positional information of base station (20) portable terminal device (30) of obtaining is that the several different methods of the method by comprising above-mentioned explanation obtains.All methods that it should be noted that mensuration portable terminal device (30) position all can be included among the present invention.
Above-mentioned base station (20) continues to obtain the above-mentioned positional information that has the portable terminal device (30) of camera function by foregoing method, and itself and shooting area (10) positional information of forbidding of preserving are in advance compared.If above-mentioned comparative result is an above-mentioned portable terminal device (30) have been entered and forbid shooting area (10) (A), then provide set forbidding to take signal to above-mentioned portable terminal device (30) by set communication channel.And, receive the above-mentioned portable terminal device (30) of forbidding taking signal and temporarily limit the camera function of self, forbid taking.If above-mentioned portable terminal device (30) leaves and above-mentionedly forbids shooting area (10) (B), the base station (20) that then detects this situation provides to remove forbids taking signal, and the above-mentioned portable terminal device (30) that receives above-mentioned information can use camera function again.
Wherein, above-mentioned base station (20) can be only enter when forbidding shooting area (10) and leaving at above-mentioned portable terminal device (30) provides this by set qualification number of times and forbids taking signal/releasing and forbid taking signal.But it should be noted that also can to the position of portable terminal device (30) with forbid that the position of shooting area (10) compares, at regular intervals, continue to provide suitable forbidding to take signal/releasing and forbid taking signal.
Fig. 2 is the simple flow chart of one embodiment of the invention.As shown in the figure, at first, the position of the portable terminal device in GPS global positioning system monitoring unit real time monitoring self coverage of base station.Above-mentioned GPS global positioning system monitoring unit may be different because of the GPS global positioning system mode of using, but, no matter its kind how, all obtain the position of the portable terminal device that is arranged in self zone in real time or by some cycles, itself and the shooting area positional information of forbidding of preserving are in advance compared.The above-mentioned shooting area of forbidding can be the zone of individual privacy of needing protection, or the zone of claimed commerce/military security, also can be to forbid the zone taken for public good.Correspondingly forbid that the keeper of shooting area can register to the portable terminal device common carrier, require to forbid taking respective regions.
If the above-mentioned size of shooting area of forbidding is across more than one base station area, then provide corresponding positional information of forbidding shooting area to each base station, move with the above-mentioned portable terminal device of box lunch, when change takes place in serving BS, also can be according to above-mentioned portable terminal position, provide and forbid taking signal/releasing and forbid taking signal.
When above-mentioned portable terminal device enters when forbidding shooting area, the serving BS that detects this situation is by the set channels such as paging channel when front opening, transmits to above-mentioned portable terminal device and forbids taking signal.The portable terminal device that receives above-mentioned signal temporarily limits camera function according to corresponding signal.Above-mentionedly forbid taking signal and can be at portable terminal device and transmit repeatedly when forbidding shooting area, the qualification number of times more than also can only when entering at first, transmitting once.
When portable terminal device leaves above-mentionedly when forbidding shooting area, the serving BS that detects this situation transmits to remove forbids taking signal, and the portable terminal device that receives above-mentioned information is removed the camera function restriction, is converted to the state that can take.At this moment too, corresponding signal both can transmit repeatedly according to portable terminal position, also can be only transmits the number of times of restriction when forbidding shooting area leaving.
Therefore,, then when portable terminal device enters forbid taking regional, take and forbidden automatically, thereby can prevent that the information that will protect from revealing for no reason, prevent to encroach on privacy if use the present invention of above-mentioned explanation.
The use restriction system of the digital camera of using in the portable terminal device of the present invention as mentioned above, The method of reaching has following effect, that is, base station or artificial satellite real time monitoring band can be passed through in the base station The positional information (GPS GPS system information) that the portable terminal device of camera function is arranged, base station pair The no photo zone position information that sets in advance compares with the positional information of above-mentioned portable terminal device , enter the no photo zone if detect portable terminal device, then forbid to the portable terminal device transmission Take signal, temporarily limit the camera function of portable terminal device, thereby can fundamentally be locked in Forbid that the area of taking without authorization takes without authorization, can prevent from encroaching on privacy, stop to require to protect Close information leakage.

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1. the use restriction system of the digital camera of using in the portable terminal device, it is characterized in that comprising following several sections: the base station, it continues to observe the positional information of portable terminal device, to forbid that the positional information of shooting area and the positional information of portable terminal device compare, and be in when forbidding shooting area when the position of portable terminal device, transmission forbids taking signal, when above-mentioned portable terminal device leaves correspondingly when forbidding shooting area, then sends to remove and forbids taking signal; The portable terminal device that has camera function, forbid shooting and releasing that it receives above-mentioned base station provides forbid taking signal, and whether control uses camera function;
The positional information of above-mentioned portable terminal device is measured by a plurality of base stations adjacent with portable terminal device or is measured and offer above-mentioned base station by artificial satellite.
2. the use restriction system of the digital camera of using in the portable terminal device according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: above-mentioned base station is to have all base stations that comprise the coverage of forbidding shooting area, when moving to, the position of above-mentioned portable terminal device has adjacent base station when zone that comprises the coverage of forbidding shooting area, also can be according to the position of above-mentioned portable terminal device, continue to provide and forbid taking signal and releasing forbids taking signal.
3. the use method for limiting of the digital camera of using in the portable terminal device, it is characterized in that comprising following several steps: step 1, the serving BS persistent surveillance has the positional information of the portable terminal device of camera function, and above-mentioned base station portable terminal position of obtaining and the positional information of forbidding shooting area of preserving are in advance compared; Step 2, the portable terminal position of obtaining when above-mentioned base station be in advance preserve forbid in the shooting area time, forbid taking signal to above-mentioned portable terminal device transmission, the camera function of restriction portable terminal device; Step 3, the position of the portable terminal device of obtaining when above-mentioned base station leave preserve in advance forbid shooting area the time, transmit to remove to above-mentioned portable terminal device and forbid taking signal, remove restriction to the camera function of portable terminal device;
The position of above-mentioned portable terminal device is measured by a plurality of base stations adjacent with portable terminal device or is measured and offer above-mentioned base station by artificial satellite.
4. the use method for limiting of the digital camera of using in the portable terminal device according to claim 3, it is characterized in that also comprising the steps: by above-mentioned above-mentioned base station portable terminal position of obtaining and the positional information of forbidding shooting area of preserving in advance being compared, lasting transmission forbids taking signal or releasing forbids taking signal.
5. the use method for limiting of the digital camera of using in the portable terminal device according to claim 3, it is characterized in that also comprising the steps: comparing with the positional information of forbidding shooting area of preserving in advance by the position of the above-mentioned portable terminal device that above-mentioned base station is obtained, have only when change takes place corresponding state, just send in view of the above limit number of times forbid take signal or releasing forbids taking signal.
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