JP2003153155A - System for presenting electronic photographing with object identifier inputting means - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problems wherein the conventional photo taking service is lack of immediacy, gives a customer troubles when the customer selects photographs with the customer himself/herself photographed, and is expensive or the like even though there has been the photo taking service to customers by a sponsor in a theme park, etc., (which takes photographs of customers and posts the photographs to allow the customers to select and buy the photographs). SOLUTION: A customer is provided with a transmitter for transmitting an ID number with the range of about 10 m, and a sponsor side photographs the customer with a digital camera and simultaneously records the ID number transmitted from the transmitter reaching the digital camera in photographing the customer. When the customer returns the transmitter, the sponsor side displays on a monitor only images simultaneously recorded with the ID so as to allow the customer to select and buy images among the images.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of photographing a participant with a digital camera in a theme park, an amusement park, or the like, and having the participant buy one of the images displayed at the exit when returning. Regarding

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is assumed that, for example, a tour called "Club Med" has been taken and that the user stayed in "New Caledonia". In that case, "Club Med" will provide hotel services and meal services, as well as host and execute various "plays" including optional tours. Tour participants actively participate in those "play" projects, but at that time, they are sometimes unable to take pictures because of their participation and activities.

Therefore, a dedicated cameraman accompanies the event and photographs the participants. Then, develop, print, and paste the resulting photo in the designated place. Occasionally, the guest goes to the place where it is posted, and if there is something that he / she sees and he likes, write the number on a piece of paper and put it in the designated box. Then, that amount will be baked and given in exchange for the price.

[0004] Conventionally, the above-mentioned services or the services similar to the above have been performed using photographs.

[0005]

The system using the above photograph has the following problems.

1. Since it is a photo, it takes time to develop and print it, which is good for staying overnight, but it is difficult to take this method at day theme parks, amusement parks, etc.

2. It's not always the case that only the picture of yourself is posted, so it's hard to find a picture of yourself from many pictures.

3. Since it is a photograph, it is necessary to develop and print it for posting, even if it is not ordered, and also use film. Further, it requires time and labor for development and printing, which results in a high cost as a whole and a high price per sheet. Therefore, a vicious circle is likely to occur in which orders are reduced.

[0009]

In the present invention, in order to solve the above problems, first, a digital camera is used. Next, give a small transmitter to those who visit the amusement park (explaining the case of the amusement park). The ID number is transmitted from this transmitter. The customer's image is taken with a digital camera, but the ID number sent from the transmitter at the time of shooting is captured. Radio waves from the transmitter (or ultrasonic waves, etc.) have some directivity, and are captured by the digital camera when facing the digital camera. By doing this, the ID of the person shown in the digital camera is mainly taken in when the image is taken with the digital camera.

The person who takes a picture with a digital camera is a person on the amusement park side, and after taking a certain amount of picture, the taken picture is input to an appropriate "server". This may be done by carrying a memory card or by means of transmission.

In this way, the image to which the customer ID is added is stored in the "server".

When the customer returns, the transmitter is returned at the exit. Then, the ID is determined, and the digital camera image to which the ID is added is displayed on the monitor set at an appropriate place. The customer looks at it and designates the image he or she wants. Then, you can get the data in the form of electronic data (such as a CD-R) for a fee, or you can print the image (if you want it) and hand it over (for a fee).

[0013]

1 is a conceptual diagram showing the concept of a first embodiment of the present invention.

A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

First, the customer 102 enters from the entrance gate 101. At this time, the transmitter 103 is handed over. At this time, a deposit fee may be taken if necessary. The customer 102 advances into the park. There, for example, 104 photographers use 105 digital cameras to appropriately photograph the customers in the amusement park and walk.

Various people are photographed in various scenes, and it is assumed that there is a customer 102 having 103 transmitters in the direction of the camera. Then, immediately before, immediately after, or at the same time as the cameraman 103 presses the shutter of the digital camera, a signal transmitted from the transmitter, for example, a weak radio wave is received, and the ID superimposed on the radio wave is received.
Take in the number.

At this time, the transmitter takes in all the 102 customers as well as the digital camera if there are some that reach the digital camera. That is, all the ID numbers are taken in. Then, the number group is added to the image data created by photographing.

The shooting in the amusement park is not limited to the cameraman. For example, a digital camera installed in an appropriate place can be remotely operated, or a camera installed in the same manner can automatically perform a shooting operation. Is also good.

Further, the transmitter may be sufficiently weak and may have a length of 10 m.
It only needs to arrive. This is because the ID of only the person who is about 10 meters from the digital camera to be photographed should be registered. People farther than that will appear small, so
After all, it seems that you will not buy images. By doing so, the transmitter can be made sufficiently small including the battery (since the power consumption is small), so that it is not bothersome to the customer.

The receiver of the weak radio wave attached to the digital camera has directivity and can receive the radio wave from the transmitter in the front of the digital camera, but does not receive the radio wave from the transmitter behind it. . By doing this, you can prevent picking up the ID numbers of people who were not near the digital camera but were not in the picture.

In this way, the image data to which the ID number of the transmitter from a person who is nearby is added is stored in the server 106. As a method of inserting, the memory card of the taken digital camera may be input from a terminal (not shown) installed at an appropriate place, or if the digital camera has a transmitting means, it may be transmitted to the server by communication.

When 102 customers come back to the exit gate of 108 and return the transmitter of 103 (at this time, if the deposit was taken, it is returned) its ID
Is read, and an image with an ID number transmitted from the transmitter is displayed on the monitor 107. This data is sent from the server 106 to the monitor.

The customer 102 selects and designates an image he or she wants from the images. For example, the image is a CD-R
You can have them burned, put them in your existing PCI CMA card, or have them print them for you. At that time, you pay the corresponding fee.

The above is the first embodiment of the present invention based on FIG.

In the present invention, all the explanations have been made with "still images" taken by a digital camera (digital camera). However, all the above merits are the same with electronic data, so they are "moving images". But it goes without saying that it doesn't matter at all. In this case, in the first embodiment, the digital camera is a digital camera capable of capturing a moving image, or it may be replaced with a camcorder. You can of course display moving images on the monitor, and if you want to take it home, you can take it home in the form of a moving image file using MPEG1, 2, 4, etc. and put it on a CD-R or PCMCIA card as before. Good. Regarding printing, for example, one frame in a moving image may be printed.

A small transmitter (103 in FIG. 1)
In the first embodiment, a weak electric wave is used, but another wave, such as an ultrasonic wave, may be used.

In the first embodiment, the transmitter is supposed to be passed at the entrance and returned at the exit, but this is not always necessary, and there is a place for lending and a place for returning at somewhere in the amusement park. Good. It goes without saying that the place to rent and the place to return may be in the same place.

In the first embodiment, the "amusement park" is used, but it is not limited to the amusement park. You can use a theme park, exhibition hall, sports hall, restaurant, plaza, etc.

Finally, although a monitor is used to present the image or the like to the customer, a still image may be printed.

In the first embodiment, the person having a transmitter is a human being (customer), but it is not limited to a human being, but a pet (animal) or some kind of "object" expected to be photographed. May be (For example, a car or a baby carriage.) It is important to have a transmitter, that the transmitter emits some kind of identification signal, and when the shooting means takes a picture, the signal from the transmitter is sent to the shooting means. Receiving is possible, the identification number is given to the photographed data at the time of photographing, and when the identifier is designated, only the image and video to which the identifier is given are displayed.

[0031]

By configuring the system as described above, the above-mentioned problems can be solved.

That is, first, since it is a digital camera, it can be seen immediately after shooting, and there is no problem even in the case of day trips. Further, since it is determined by the ID number and only the image in which the person is likely to be shown is displayed, it is easy to find the desired image.

Furthermore, since the photographed image is electronic data, there is no cost for developing and printing, and
If it doesn't sell, it can be erased, so you can use the memory for shooting as many times as you want, and there is no storage cost.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing the basic concept of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 entrance gate 102 Customers 103 transmitter 104 Photographer 105 digital camera

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. There is a small transmitting means capable of transmitting an identifier without using a transmission line, and an electronic still image or moving image photographing means, wherein the transmitting means may be photographed by the photographing means. Given to an object, the photographing means has means for receiving the identifier sent from the transmitting means at the time of photographing, records the received identifier together with the photographed image, and is photographed by the photographing means. Further, the video data to which the identifier is added is input to the server, and when the identifier is designated, only the video data to which the identifier is added is taken out from the server and displayed, and the subject identifier inputting means. Electronic photography presentation system 2. The electronic photographing presentation system with subject identifier input means, wherein the transmitter according to claim 1 has a reach of about 10 meters. 3. The electronic photographing presentation system with subject identifier inputting means according to claim 1, wherein the means for receiving the identifier has directivity.