JP2002374443A - Image reproduction system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image photographing device and an image reproduction system which are inexpensive and can record a photographing position together with a still picture or moving picture. SOLUTION: The image photographing device records only image data and time information on photographing, a position recognizing device which is independent of the image photographing device records position information and time information on photographing, and the image reproduction system relates the image data and position information on the basis of the time information. Thus, the image reproduction system which can record the photographing position at low cost is provided.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image reproducing system capable of recording a photographing position together with a still image or a moving image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to record a photographing position together with a still image or a moving image, a GPS (Glob
al Positioning Systems). Hereinafter, recording of the photographing position in the conventional image photographing apparatus will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 12 shows an example of the configuration of a conventional image photographing apparatus.
Reference numeral 2 denotes image data; 1203, a position recognition device; 1204, position information at the time of shooting; 1205, an image data storage device; and 1206, a removable image data storage medium.

When a still image is captured by the image capturing apparatus shown in FIG. 12, image data 1202 captured by the camera 1201 is transferred to an image data storage device 1205, and at the same time, the image data 1202 recognized by the position recognition device 1203 is used. The position information 1204 is also passed to the image data storage device 1205.
The image data storage device 1205 stores the image data 1202 passed from the camera 1201 and the position recognition device 1203
Is recorded on the removable image data storage medium 1206 in association with the positional information 1204 at the time of photographing passed from.
When a moving image is photographed by the image photographing apparatus of FIG. 12, the above-described processing of photographing a still image is repeatedly performed in a frame cycle.

FIG. 13 shows an example of a recording format of a removable image data storage medium 1206 of a conventional image photographing apparatus. 1301 is image data A, and 1302 is a photographing image associated with the image data A. 1303 is image data B;
Reference numeral 04 denotes position information at the time of shooting associated with the image data B, 1305 denotes image data C, and 1306 denotes position information at the time of shooting associated with the image data C.
Thus, the shooting position can be recorded together with the still image or the moving image.

[0005] Reproduction of a photographing position in a conventional image reproduction system will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 14 shows an example of the configuration of a conventional image reproducing system. Reference numeral 1401 denotes an image data storage device; 1402, a removable image data storage medium; 1403, image data; 1405 is a position information multiplexing device; 1406 is position information multiplexed image data;
Reference numeral 07 denotes an image display device.

When a still image is reproduced in the image reproducing system, the image data 1403 read from the removable image data storage medium 1402 by the image data storage device 1401 and the position information 1404 at the time of shooting are passed to the position information multiplexing device 1405. It is. Location information multiplexing device 140
5 multiplexes the image data 1403 passed from the image data storage device 1401 and the position information 1404 at the time of shooting, and the position information multiplexed image data 1406 is stored in the image display device 1.
407. The image display device 1407 receives the position information multiplexed image data 1 passed from the position information multiplexing device 1405.
406 is displayed. In addition, when a moving image is reproduced in the image reproducing system of FIG. 14, the above-described process of reproducing a still image is repeatedly performed in a frame cycle.

FIG. 15 shows an example of an image reproduced by a conventional image reproducing system.
1 is an image display device, 1502 is a captured image,
Reference numeral 1503 denotes shooting position information. Thus, the shooting position can be reproduced together with the still image or the moving image.

[0008]

In the conventional image reproducing system described with reference to FIGS. 12 to 15, in order to record a photographing position together with a still image or a moving image, a position recognizing device such as a GPS is provided in the image photographing device. Had to be implemented. However, since a position recognition device such as a GPS is expensive, there is a problem that mounting the position recognition device such as a GPS increases the price of the image capturing device.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an image reproducing system capable of recording and reproducing a photographing position together with a still image or a moving image at low cost.

[0010]

According to the present invention, there is provided an image capturing apparatus which records only image data and time information at the time of image capturing, and uses a position recognition apparatus independent of the image capturing apparatus to record position information. And an image reproducing system that records time information at the time of recording and associates the image data with the position information based on the time information in the image reproducing system, thereby specifying the photographing position of the image.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The recording of a photographing position in an image photographing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of an image photographing apparatus according to the present invention, wherein 101 is a camera, 102 is image data, 103 is a clock, 104 is time information at the time of photographing, and 105 Denotes an image data storage device, and 106 denotes a removable image data storage medium.

When a still image is taken by the image taking apparatus shown in FIG.
2 is passed to the image data storage device 105, and at the same time, time information 104 at the time of photographing of the clock 103 is also passed to the image data storage device 105. The image data storage device 105 records the image data 102 passed from the camera 101 and the time information 104 at the time of shooting passed from the clock 103 in a removable image data storage medium 106 in association with each other. When a moving image is photographed by the image photographing apparatus of FIG. 1, the above-described process of photographing a still image is repeatedly performed in a frame cycle.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the recording format of the removable image data storage medium 106 of the image photographing apparatus of the present invention.
02 is time information A at the time of shooting associated with the image data A, 203 is image data B, 204 is time information B at the time of shooting associated with the image data B,
Reference numeral 205 denotes image data C, and reference numeral 206 denotes time information C at the time of shooting associated with the image data C.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the configuration of a position information recording device attached to the image photographing device of the present invention. Reference numeral 301 denotes a position recognition device, 302 denotes position information, and 303 denotes a clock. , 304 are time information at the time of position recognition, 305 is a position information storage device, 306
Is a removable location information storage medium. When the recording of the position information is started, the position information 30 recognized by the position
2 is passed to the position information storage device 305,
The time information 304 at the time of position recognition of 03 is also transferred to the position information storage device 305. In the position information storage device 305,
The position information 302 passed from the position recognition device 301 and the time information 304 at the time of position recognition passed from the clock 303 are associated and recorded on the removable position information storage medium 306.

FIG. 4 shows a removable position information storage medium 30 of the position information recording device associated with the image photographing apparatus of the present invention.
6 shows an example of a recording format of 401;
Is position information A, 402 is time information A at the time of position recognition associated with position information A, 403 is position information B, and 404 is time information B at position recognition associated with position information B. 405 is position information C,
Reference numeral 406 denotes time information C at the time of position recognition associated with the position information C.

The clock 103 in FIG. 1 and the clock 303 in FIG. 3 are adjusted so as to have the same time information. Specifically, the time information 104 at the time of photographing in FIG. 1 and the time information 304 at the time of position recognition in FIG. 3 include information that can specify a date and time that can be compared with each other. Accordingly, by carrying the image photographing device of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 and the position information recording device attached to the image photographing device of the present invention shown in FIG. The time can be recorded, and the position where the image photographing device was present at a specific time can be recorded.

Next, reproduction of the photographing position in the image reproduction system of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 shows an example of the configuration of an image reproduction system according to the present invention, wherein 501 is an image data storage device, 502 is a removable image data storage medium, 503 is image data, and 504 is image data. Reference numeral 505 denotes position information at the time of photographing;
Is a removable position information storage medium, 507 is position information, 508 is time information at the time of position recognition,
Reference numeral 509 denotes a time information comparison device, 510 denotes image data, 511 denotes position information at the time of shooting, 512 denotes a position information multiplexing device, 513 denotes position information multiplexed image data, and 514 denotes an image display device. It is.

When a still image is reproduced in the image reproduction system shown in FIG. 5, the image data 503 read from the removable image data storage medium 502 by the image data storage device 501 and the time information 504 at the time of shooting are compared with the time information comparison device. 509. At the same time, the location information storage device 50
6 is position information 507 read from the removable position information storage medium 506 and time information 508 at the time of position recognition.
Is passed to the time information comparison device 509.

The time information comparison device 509 includes the time information 504 at the time of photographing passed from the image data storage device 501,
Based on the time information 508 at the time of position recognition passed from the position information storage device 505, the image data 503 passed from the image data storage device 501 is associated with the position information passed from the position information storage device 505, and the image data 510 is obtained. And the position information 511 at the time of shooting are passed to the position information multiplexing device 512.

The position information multiplexing device 512 multiplexes the image data 510 passed from the time information comparing device 509 and the position information 511 at the time of photographing, and
13 is passed to the image display device 514. Image display device 5
14 displays the position information multiplexed image data 513 passed from the position information multiplexing device 512. When a moving image is reproduced in the image reproducing system of FIG. 5, the above-described processing of reproducing a still image is repeatedly performed in a frame cycle.

When comparing the time information 504 at the time of photographing with the time information comparing device 509 with the time information 508 at the time of position recognition, the position information attached to the image photographing device of the present invention described with reference to FIG. Depending on the operation timing of the recording apparatus, the removable image data storage medium 502 and the removable position information storage medium 506 may not have time information that completely matches. As described above, when the removable image data storage medium 502 and the removable position information storage medium 506 do not have time information that completely matches each other, the shooting time of the removable image data storage medium The position information 507 associated with the time information 508 at the time of position recognition earlier and temporally closest to the information 504 is selected as the position information 511 of the image data 510 at the time of shooting.

FIG. 6 shows an example of an image reproduced by the image reproducing system of the present invention.
Is an image display device, 602 is a captured image, and 60
Reference numeral 3 denotes shooting position information.

The image data recorded by the image photographing apparatus of FIG. 1 and the position information recorded by the position information recording apparatus of FIG. 3 are transferred to the image reproducing system of FIG. 5 by using a removable storage medium. Although described as being passed, the image data recorded by the image capturing apparatus of FIG. 1 using a wire such as a cable or wireless communication such as optical communication without using a removable storage medium, and
The present invention can also be implemented by passing the position information recorded by the position information recording device of FIG. 3 to the image reproduction system of FIG.

FIG. 7 shows an image reproducing system in which functions are further added to the image reproducing system of the present invention described with reference to FIG. 5, 701 is a map image generating apparatus, 702 is map information, and 703 is a map image photographing apparatus. Map image data indicating a position, reference numeral 704 denotes an image multiplexing device, and reference numeral 705 denotes map image multiplexed image data.

When a still image is reproduced by the image reproducing system shown in FIG. 7, the image data 503 read from the removable image data storage medium 502 by the image data storage device 501 and the time information 504 at the time of shooting are compared with the time information. It is passed to the device 509. At the same time, the location information storage device 506
The position information 507 read from the removable position information storage medium 506 and the time information 508 at the time of position recognition are passed to the time information comparing device 509.

The time information comparing device 509 includes time information 504 at the time of photographing passed from the image data storage device 501,
Based on the time information 508 at the time of position recognition passed from the position information storage device 505, the image data 503 passed from the image data storage device 501 is associated with the position information passed from the position information storage device 505, and the image data 510 is obtained. And the position information 511 at the time of shooting are output.

The position information 511 at the time of photographing output from the time information comparing device 509 is passed to a map image generating device 701, and a map image is generated from the map information 702 by the map image generating device 701. This is output as map image data 703 shown. Map image generation device 701
Image data 70 indicating the position at the time of shooting output from
3 is input to the image multiplexing device 704 together with the image data 510 output from the time information comparing device 509.

The image multiplexing device 704 multiplexes the image data 510 passed from the time information comparing device 509 and the map image data 703 indicating the position at the time of photographing passed from the map image generating device 701. The multiplexed image data 705 is generated, and the multiplexed image data 705 is passed to the image generation device 514. The image display device 514 stores the map image multiplexed image data 70 passed from the image multiplexing device 704.
5 is displayed. When a moving image is reproduced in the image reproduction system described with reference to FIG. 7, the above-described still image reproduction processing is repeatedly performed at a frame cycle.

FIG. 8 shows an example of an image reproduced by the image reproducing system of the present invention shown in FIG. 7, in which reference numeral 801 denotes an image display device, 802 denotes a photographed image, and 803 denotes a photographed image. 3 is a map image showing the position of the map.

Note that the position information recording device associated with the present invention shown in FIG. 3 does not need to be a dedicated position information recording device, and a position information recording function is added to a GPS, which has become popular in recent years, such as a car navigation system. It can also be implemented by mounting. In addition, GPS accuracy
It is also possible to implement the function of recording the identification information of the base station that is currently communicating with the PHS or the mobile phone together with the time information at every unit time or every time the base station is switched without using the terminal. is there.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a P associated with the image photographing apparatus of the present invention.
This shows an example of the configuration of a base station identification information recording device using an HS, a mobile phone, or the like, where 901 is a base station transceiver, 902 is base station identification information, and 9
03 is a clock, 904 is time information when acquiring base station identification information, 905 is a base station identification information storage device, and 906 is a removable base station identification information storage medium.

When the recording of the base station identification information is started, the base station identification information 902 obtained by the base station transceiver 901 is changed every unit time or every time the base station with which communication is performed is switched.
It is passed to the base station identification information storage device 905, and at the same time, the clock 9
The time information 904 of the base station 03 when the base station identification information is acquired is also passed to the base station identification information storage device 905. In the base station identification information storage device 905, the base station identification information 902 passed from the base station transceiver 901 and the time information 904 at the time of acquisition of the base station identification information passed from the clock 903 are associated with each other to remove the base station identification. The information is recorded on the information storage medium 906.

FIG. 10 shows an example of a recording format of a removable base station identification information storage medium 1006 of a base station identification information recording device using a PHS, a mobile phone, or the like attached to the image photographing apparatus of the present invention. Yes, 1001 is base station identification information A, 1002 is base station identification information A
Is time information A at the time of position recognition associated with
03 is base station identification information B, 1004 is time information B at the time of position recognition associated with base station identification information B, 1005 is base station identification information C, and 1006 is base station identification information C It is time information C at the time of position recognition.

The clock 103 in FIG. 1 and the clock 903 in FIG. 9 are adjusted so as to have the same time information. Specifically, the time information 104 at the time of shooting in FIG. 1 and the time information 904 at the time of position recognition in FIG. 9 include information capable of specifying a date and time that can be compared with each other. Accordingly, by carrying the image photographing device of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 and the position information recording device attached to the image photographing device of the present invention shown in FIG. The time can be recorded, and the position where the image photographing device was present at a specific time can be recorded.

FIG. 11 shows an example of the configuration of an image reproduction system when the base station identification information recording device of FIG. 9 of the present invention is used. Reference numeral 1101 denotes a base station identification information storage device; Is a removable base information storage medium; 1103 is base station identification information;
Reference numeral 104 denotes time information at the time of acquiring base station identification information.
Reference numeral 06 denotes base station identification information at the time of shooting, 1107 denotes a position information conversion device, and 1108 denotes base station position information.

When a still image is reproduced in the image reproduction system shown in FIG. 11, the image data 503 read from the removable image data storage medium 502 by the image data storage device 501 and the time information 504 at the time of shooting are compared with the time information comparison device. 509. At the same time, the base station identification information 1103 read from the removable base station identification information storage medium 1102 by the base station identification information storage device 1101 and the time information 1104 at the time of obtaining the base station identification information are passed to the time information comparison device 509.

The time information comparison device 509 includes time information 504 at the time of photographing passed from the image data storage device 501,
From the time information 1104 at the time of acquisition of the base station identification information passed from the base station identification information storage device 1101, the image data 503 passed from the image data storage device 501 and the base station identification passed from the base station identification information storage device 1101 Information is associated, and image data 510 and base station identification information 1106 at the time of shooting are output.

The base station identification information 1106 at the time of photographing output from the time information comparison device 509 is
07, the position information converter 1107 generates position information 511 at the time of shooting from the base station information 1108,
Image data 51 output from time information comparison device 509
It is passed to the position information multiplexing device 512 together with 0.

The position information multiplexing device 512 multiplexes the image data 510 passed from the time information comparing device 509 and the position information 511 at the time of photographing.
13 is passed to the image display device 514. Image display device 5
14 displays the position information multiplexed image data 513 passed from the position information multiplexing device 512. When a moving image is reproduced in the image reproducing system of FIG. 5, the above-described processing of reproducing a still image is repeatedly performed in a frame cycle.

[0040]

As described above, according to the present invention, the image photographing apparatus records only the image data and the time information at the time of photographing, and the position recognition device independent of the image photographing apparatus records the position information and the time information at the time of recording. By recording the image data and associating the image data with the position information based on the time information in the image reproducing system, the photographing position can be recorded without mounting an expensive position recognition device in the image photographing device. This allows
It is possible to provide an image reproducing system capable of recording a shooting position together with a still image or a moving image at low cost.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an image recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a recording format of image data of the image capturing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a position information recording device attached to the image photographing device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a recording format diagram of position information of a position information recording device attached to the image photographing device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of an image reproduction system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a reproduced image of the image reproducing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a configuration diagram of an image reproduction system capable of displaying a map image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a reproduced image of the image reproducing system capable of displaying a map image according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram of a base station identification information recording device attached to the image capturing device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a recording format of base station information of a base station identification information recording device attached to an image photographing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a configuration diagram of an image reproduction system when a base station identification information recording device according to an embodiment of the present invention is used.

FIG. 12 is a configuration diagram of a conventional image photographing apparatus.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a recording format of image data of a conventional image photographing apparatus.

FIG. 14 is a configuration diagram of a conventional image reproduction system.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a reproduced image of a conventional image reproducing system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 Camera 102 Image data 103 Clock 104 Time information at the time of shooting 105 Image data storage device 106 Removable image data storage medium 301 Position recognition device 302 Position information 303 Clock 304 Time information at the time of position recognition 305 Position information storage device 306 Removable Position information storage medium 501 Image data storage device 502 Removable image data storage medium 503 Image data 504 Position information at the time of shooting 505 Position information storage device 506 Removable position information storage medium 507 Position information 508 Time information at position recognition 509 Time information comparison device 510 Image data 511 Position information at the time of shooting 512 Position information multiplexing device 513 Position information multiplexed image data 514 Image display device 601 Image display device 602 Photographed image 603 Photographing position information 70 Reference Signs List 1 map image generating device 702 map information 703 map image data 704 indicating a position at the time of photographing 704 image multiplexing device 705 map image multiplexing image data 801 image display device 802 photographed image 803 map image 901 indicating a position at the time of photographing Base station identification information 903 Clock 904 Time information at the time of obtaining base station identification information 905 Base station identification information storage device 906 Removable base station identification information storage medium 1101 Base station identification information storage device 1102 Removable base station identification information storage medium 1103 base station identification information 1104 time information at the time of obtaining base station identification information 1106 base station identification information at the time of shooting 1107 position information conversion device 1108 base station position information 1201 camera 1202 image data 1203 position recognition device 1204 position information at the time of shooting 1205 image Data storage device 1206 Removable image data storage medium 1401 Image data storage device 1402 Removable image data storage medium 1403 Image data 1404 Position information at the time of shooting 1405 Position information multiplex device 1406 Position information multiplex image data 1407 Image display device 1501 Image Display device 1502 Photographed image 1503 Photographing position information

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An image photographing means for recording a photographing time together with a still image or a moving image, a position recognizing means for recording position recognition time together with position information for each predetermined unit, and a photographing time recorded by the image photographing means. An image characterized by comprising a reproducing means for collating a position recognition time recorded by the position recognizing means, specifying position information corresponding to the photographed image, and reproducing the specified position information together with the image. Reproduction system. 2. The image reproducing system according to claim 1, wherein the position recognizing means records a position recognizing time for each unit time from a built-in clock. 3. The image reproducing system according to claim 1, wherein the position recognizing means measures a moving distance and records a position recognizing time every time the unit moves by a unit distance. 4. The image reproduction system according to claim 3, wherein the measurement of the moving distance is realized by a vehicle-mounted navigation device. 5. The position recognizing means is realized by a mobile communication device for recording time information together with the identification information of the communicating base station every time the base station is switched, and the reproducing means is recorded by the image photographing means. The acquired photographing time is compared with the time information at the time of recording the base station identification information, the base station identification information corresponding to the image is specified, and the base station identification information is converted into position information. Item 2. The image reproduction system according to Item 1. 6. The image reproducing system according to claim 1, wherein the reproducing means displays the reproduced position information on the map image as a photographing point.