JP2003216633A - Image inquiry contents system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image inquiry contents system making it possible to inquire for images. <P>SOLUTION: The image inquiry contents system has an inquiry accepting process part 12 for accepting image contents picked up with a camera-equipped cellular phone 1; an inquiry screen display process part 16 for displaying on an information terminal device 3 used by each answerer an inquiry screen on which to display the inquiry image contents; and an answering process part 14 which presents the inquirer with a list of answers accepted from the plurality of answerers who sent the answers upon watching the inquiry screen. In this way an inquirer makes an inquiry using an image and the answerer answers while watching the image. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to the provision of an inquiry content system capable of making an inquiry by image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, inquiry content systems provided in the Internet environment can be roughly classified into three types. The first type is the search robot type. In this type, the user is inquired to the content provider by inputting and specifying a keyword. The content provider prepares a search engine and answers based on the designated keyword. The second type is a give-and-take method of inquirer = responder. In this type, the user registers in advance at least one specialty field on the content provider side. And
Inquiries regarding the relevant fields will be sent by email from the third party inquirer via the content provider, and the inquiries will be answered. On the other hand, the person himself / herself can also be the inquirer, and the answer to the inquiry sent by himself / herself can be obtained from the respondent who is a third party via the content provider. The third type is a type in which the content provider contracts with a specialized respondent to make a response. Inquiries and answers for this type are also sent and received using e-mail.

A user can clarify an unknown matter by inputting an unknown term itself, a keyword for specifying an unknown matter, or a question content by character input and making an inquiry to any of the above-mentioned systems. .

[0004]

However, in order for the user to make an inquiry to the conventional inquiry content system, the user had to input the keyword and question content in characters. That is, the content of the question that cannot be realized unless the content of the inquiry is an image, or the content of which the question can be extremely easily made by inquiring with the image, such as "What is the name of the flower in this picture?" If you want to inquire, "What is the name of the fish with a caudal fin?", It is extremely easy to show the image and inquire as it is. On the other hand, in the conventional inquiry content system, since it was not possible to make an inquiry by using an image, the inquirer must extract a characteristic part such as the color or shape of the organism that he / she wants to inquire and appropriately express it in characters. Didn't get Or, in order to get the correct answer, I had to enter as much information as possible, such as habitat, in letters.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide an image inquiry content system capable of making an inquiry by image.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the image inquiry content system according to the present invention is an inquiry sent from the inquirer side including at least the inquiry image content and the reply destination. Inquiry reception processing means for receiving information and accumulating it in the inquiry image information database, inquiry screen display processing means for displaying the inquiry screen for displaying the inquiry image content on the information terminal device used by the respondent, and for the inquiry by the inquiry screen It has an answer acceptance processing means for accepting an answer from an answerer and an answer processing means for transmitting the answer accepted by the answer acceptance processing means to a corresponding answer destination and displaying the answer, and makes an inquiry by image contents. It is a thing.

Further, it is assumed that the inquiry side is provided with a communication terminal device for transmitting image contents.

Further, the inquiry side is provided with an image capturing means having an image capturing function, and the communication terminal device transmits the image content captured by the image capturing means.

Further, it is assumed that the communication terminal device is a mobile phone with an internet function equipped with the image capturing means.

Further, the answer acceptance processing means has an answer database for accumulating as many answers as the desired answer to the inquiry specified in the inquiry information in association with the inquiry identification information. Writing to the answer database, the answer processing means, when the desired number of answers are written to the answer database,
The desired number of answers are collectively sent to the corresponding reply destination.

Further, the answer processing means is provided when the time limit specified in the inquiry information elapses after the inquiry information is received, or when the desired number of answers specified in the inquiry information are obtained. The answer received from the respondent at the earlier of the two is transmitted.

Further, it has an answerer information database for storing the evaluation information of each answerer, and an answerer evaluation management means for managing the evaluation information of each answerer. The answerer information database is updated with the evaluation information of the answerer who has made the answer, which is generated based on the evaluation points for each answer entered by the inquirer.

Further, the reply processing means adds the evaluation information of the respondent to the reply to be sent to the reply destination, thereby displaying the reply and the evaluation of the respondent who made the reply.

Further, it has an inquiry notification processing means for notifying the respondent by e-mail that new inquiry information has been received.

In addition, in the respondent information database,
Further, the fields to which each respondent answers are registered in advance, and the inquiry notification processing means refers to the respondent information database to the respondents who correspond to the field to which the newly received inquiry image content belongs. Only intended to send email.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an image inquiry content system according to the present invention. This system is composed of devices possessed by the content provider side, the inquirer side making an inquiry, and the respondent side making an inquiry. By the way, content generally refers to materials such as still images, videos, and sounds that are necessary when creating a multimedia application, and in the case of providing multimedia information via a network, the content is a multimedia application or Although it may refer to various services, the “content” on the content provider side or the content system in the present embodiment corresponds to the latter. Also,
The “content” of the inquiry image content transmitted from the inquirer side to the content providing side corresponds to the former.

The present embodiment is characterized in that an inquiry can be made with an image. Therefore,
Each inquirer uses a camera-equipped mobile phone with an Internet function (hereinafter referred to as “camera-embedded mobile phone” or simply “mobile phone”) as a device for transmitting the captured image data to the content provider side by capturing an image with the camera. I have 1). The mobile phone 1 can exchange information with the content system 10 installed on the content provider side via a mobile phone operator (not shown) and the Internet 2. On the other hand, each respondent possesses the information terminal device 3 as a device for displaying and responding to the image inquired by the screen. The information terminal device 3 may be a general-purpose personal computer (PC) capable of Internet communication, and can exchange information with the content system 10 via the Internet 2 via an Internet provider (not shown). In FIG. 1, a plurality of mobile phones 1 with a built-in camera and a plurality of information terminal devices 3 are shown on the inquirer side and the respondent side, respectively.
This means that there are multiple inquirers and respondents.

The content system 10 installed on the content provider side can be constructed by a general web server computer having a web server function. The content system 10 according to the present embodiment includes an inquiry acceptance processing unit 12, an answer processing unit 14, an inquiry screen display processing unit 16,
It has an answer acceptance processing unit 18, an inquiry notification processing unit 20, and a respondent evaluation management unit 22. Inquiry processing unit 12
Accepts inquiry information sent from the inquirer side and stores it in the inquiry image information database 24. The response processing unit 14 sends the response received by the response receiving processing unit 18 to
Send an email to the corresponding mobile phone 1 owned by the inquirer and display it. The inquiry screen display processing unit 16 causes the information terminal device 3 used by the respondent to display an inquiry screen displaying the inquiry image content. The response acceptance processing unit 18 accepts the response from the respondent to the inquiry on the inquiry screen. The inquiry notification processing unit 20 notifies the respondent by e-mail that the inquiry information is newly received on the content provider side. The respondent evaluation management unit 22 manages the evaluation information of each respondent. The processing function exhibited by each of the components 12 to 22 is realized by an application.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the inquiry image information database 24 in this embodiment. All of the item data described below are for the inquiry reception processing unit 1
It is set by the inquiry reception processing unit 12 when 2 receives the inquiry information sent from the inquirer. Figure 2
In, the reception time is set to the time at which the inquiry information sent from the inquirer is received. An identification code for identifying each inquiry is set in the inquiry ID. The inquirer e-mail address is set to the destination to send the reply to the inquirer. When inquiring about the name of a flower, the classification code is set to the code of the field to which the inquiry content belongs, such as the “flower” code. The desired number of respondents is
The number of answers that the inquirer wants to receive is set. The time limit is set to the time at which the inquirer wants to receive an answer at the latest after making an inquiry. A file name for storing the inquiry image content is set in the inquiry image file name.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the reply database 26 in this embodiment. One record is generated for each inquiry. Each record is newly registered by the inquiry reception processing unit 12 when the inquiry reception processing unit 12 receives the inquiry information sent from the inquirer. Each time the reply is received from the respondent, the reply acceptance processing unit 18 writes the answers one by one. In FIG. 2, an inquiry ID is set with an identification code for identifying each inquiry. Each inquiry information is associated with the inquiry content held in the inquiry image information database 24 by this inquiry ID. Each piece of reply information associated with the inquiry ID includes a reply time at which the time when the reply is received, a respondent ID of the respondent who has answered, and the actual content of the reply. In response to one inquiry, the answer database 26 holds the answers of the desired answer number n set in the inquiry image information database 24.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the respondent information database 28 in this embodiment. In the respondent information database 28, the personal information of the respondent user needs to be registered in advance before the content provider provides this service in the present embodiment. This personal information is registered in the respondent information database 28 as respondent information based on the items previously input by the user who is the respondent from the respondent registration screen (not shown). The respondent ID is a code for identifying each respondent, and is uniquely assigned to the user when the respondent information is newly registered. The email address of the respondent is set in the email address. The evaluation information by field includes
One to a plurality of sets of field codes and accumulated points are set. In the field code, identification codes of one or a plurality of fields that the user is good at, which he / she has specified when registering in the system as a respondent, are set. Each field is selected from the respondent registration screen. The fields are synonymous with the above classification, and are classified into, for example, fish, flowers and the like. Respondents will, in principle, respond to registered fields. The cumulative points are cumulative values of the evaluation points input by the inquirer who obtained the reply. In the respondent information, only this accumulated point is updated one after another after the personal information of the respondent is exceptionally registered and every time it is evaluated by the inquirer. The name, address, telephone number and date of birth that follow are registered as part of the personal information of the respondent. Although it is not particularly necessary to become a respondent, in the present embodiment, since it is designed to collect prompt and accurate answers by sending prizes according to accumulated points, it is registered as delivery destination information. ing. Although not shown, in addition to the item data described above, authentication information for authenticating the respondent such as a terminal IP address or password may be provided.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7, a description will be given of the processing from the inquiry made by the inquirer until the answer is obtained and further the evaluation of the answerer is made in this embodiment.

For example, suppose that one wants to know the name of a flower found during a walk or a hike. then,
The user uses the mobile phone 1 to carry out the inquiry UR of the content system 10 to know the name of the flower.
Specify L to access. This starts the use of this service.

FIG. 5A shows an example of a screen displayed on the mobile phone 1 when the content system 10 is accessed. The inquirer inputs the number of answers that he / she wants to receive from this screen and the time when he / she wants to receive the answers at the latest after making an inquiry from the respective input fields for the desired number of answers and the time limit. The desired number of respondents and the time limit are
You may make it provide an initial value from the content provider side.

After the inquirer inputs each value, O on the screen is displayed.
When the K button is pressed, the screen illustrated in FIG. 5B is displayed. The inquirer inputs an e-mail address for receiving an answer in a predetermined field on this screen. Normally,
It may be the email address of your mobile phone 1,
It is also possible to specify another email address. Then, according to the guidance displayed on the screen, the camera function installed in the mobile phone 1 is used to image the flower according to a predetermined operation. In FIG. 5B, the advertisement 1a of the sponsor of the content provider is displayed on the screen. When picked up, the picked-up image data is stored in the mobile phone 1 with a file name. Therefore, the inquirer inputs the image file name from FIG. 5C after image capturing. Further, the image to be inquired is designated to be classified. This allows you to select a taxonomy from a pull-down menu. In the case of this example, "flowers" are selected.
Then, by pressing the send button on the screen, the image data is sent to the content provider side as inquiry image content. At this time, the number of desired respondents entered,
The time limit, email address and classification are sent with the query image content.

In the present embodiment, the shooting is urged in the middle of the inquiry process for displaying FIG. 5, specifically in FIG. 5B, but the inquiry image content is generated before the inquiry process starts. The file name may simply be designated in the inquiry process.

On the content provider side, when the inquiry acceptance processing section 12 receives the inquiry information sent from the mobile phone 1, it stores it in the corresponding field of the image information database 24. At this time, a unique inquiry ID is assigned to the inquiry, associated with the inquiry information, and the time at that time is registered as the reception time.
Further, the inquiry reception processing unit 12 allocates a unique file name in the content system 10 to the received inquiry image content and saves it. This is because if the received file name is used as it is, it may be duplicated. The inquiry reception processing unit 12 stores this unique file name in the inquiry image file name of the image information database 24. Further, the inquiry reception processing unit 12
Returns the record of the inquiry ID to the reply database 26
Sign up for. To the inquiry ID, the answer information of the initialized desired answer number n is added.

When the inquiry information sent from the inquirer is newly registered in the image information database 24, the inquiry screen display processing section 16 displays an inquiry image content and generates an inquiry screen for obtaining an answer from the respondent. To do. Specifically, H displayed by the browser of the information terminal device 3
Generate a TML file. FIG. 6 shows the transition of the screen example displayed by this HTML file. FIG. 6 (b),
As illustrated in (c), in the present embodiment, image contents for which the desired number of answers have not yet been collected are collectively displayed for each classification. Of course, it is not necessary to limit to this, and it is possible to display in inquiry order (time series),
It would be convenient for the respondents to display each category.

When the preparation for inquiring is completed as described above, the inquiry notification processing section 20 notifies the respondent by e-mail that new inquiry information has been received. It is effective and efficient for the respondents who are the subject of the email transmission to send the electronic mail only to the respondents who belong to the field to which the inquiry image content that is the subject of the inquiry newly belongs. The corresponding respondent is a person who has specified a field code that matches the classification code to which the inquiry image content that is the new inquiry target belongs. It should be noted that it is preferable that the body of the electronic mail describes the field to which the newly inquired inquiry image content belongs.

When the respondent side finds out that the inquiry image content to be inquired is newly registered by the notification from the content provider side by e-mail, the information terminal device 3 makes a reply for the content system 10. Access by specifying the URL. An example of a screen displayed on the information terminal device 3 by this operation is shown in FIG.
Of course, the respondent may access regardless of the presence or absence of the notification by e-mail, and does not necessarily have to respond to the notification.

The respondent inputs his / her own respondent ID, which is informed in advance, in the registration ID field of FIG. 6 (a). In addition, after input, the fields that you registered in the system (“flowers” and “fishes” in this example) are displayed on the screen.
Select one of them and press the OK button. As a result, an inquiry screen showing one to a plurality of inquiry image contents is displayed. In this example, "flowers" is selected as the field, so the inquiry screen for flowers is displayed as shown in FIG. 6 (b).

Here, the respondent is the one shown in FIG.
If there is a flower whose name is known in (c), click the image to select it. By this click operation, the image is specified by lowering the brightness as shown in FIG. 6D, and the name input field is displayed. The respondent inputs the name of the flower selected from the input field. Respondents can continue to make an answer, but they will not be able to select again for the image for which they have made an answer. In the example of FIG. 6 (e), it is displayed even darker to indicate that fact.

The present embodiment is characterized in that the inquirer makes an inquiry by using an image, and the respondent answers the displayed image. In the screen examples shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, items necessary for explaining the features of the present embodiment are shown, and the buttons necessary for switching the screen and ending the process are omitted for convenience. ing. The same applies to FIG. 7 described later.

On the side of the content provider, when the answer acceptance processing unit 18 accepts the answer entered by the answerer, the answer information of the corresponding inquiry ID is paired with the answer, the answerer ID and the acceptance time (response time). Write in the field. The writing positions are in order from 1, and writing is performed in a vacant place.

The answer processing unit 14 includes an answer database 26.
Is being monitored, and when it is recognized that the fields of the answer information of each inquiry ID are all filled, it is determined that the desired number of answers have been collected, and at that time, the inquiry image information database 24 identifies the answer. Send all the answers together by email to the email address of the inquirer. In this sent response mail, the accumulated points in the field of the respondent who has sent the answer extracted from the respondent information database 28 are associated with each reply.

By the way, as described above, the time limit is set for each inquiry. Therefore, the response processing unit 14
Even if the desired number of responses is not received, the timeout is set when the time limit elapses, and the accumulated points are added to the answers collected within the time limit and sent to the inquirer by e-mail. Of course, if there is no answer, you will be notified by email.

When an e-mail is sent from the content provider side on the inquirer side, a message to that effect is displayed on the screen as in the case of a normal new mail, as shown in FIG. 7A. FIG. 7B is a display example when the inquirer opens a new mail from the content provider side. This answer display screen shows the number of received answers,
Each answer is displayed with accumulated points.

By the way, if all the received answers are the same, there is a high possibility that they are correct answers, but there is no guarantee that all the received answers are correct, and correct and incorrect answers may be mixed. There is a nature. It is also possible that the correct answer is not included.

Here, in the case of a so-called forgetfulness, in which the inquirer knows the name of the flower or flower inquired but cannot remember it, there is a high possibility that it can be remembered by looking at this answer. In other words, the correct name can be obtained regardless of the number of correct answers. In addition, even if there is no correct answer, it is possible to remember the answer received as a hint.
In addition, if the inquirer has heard the name of the flower or flower that he / she inquired about somewhere but does not remember it clearly, such as when he / she is sober, or when he / she does not know the name of the flower / flower inquired at all, a different answer is given. You must select the one that seems to be the correct answer. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the cumulative points of the respondents are displayed together with each answer as the index. Note that the details of the accumulated points will be described later, and here, assuming that the inquirer who is almost forgotten has received the reply, the process after receiving the reply will be continuously described.

The inquirer receiving the reply scrolls the screen to display the evaluation input screen shown in FIG. 7 (c). The inquirer makes a judgment as to whether the answer from the respondent is correct, wrong, or close to the correct answer from this screen, and gives an evaluation score to each answer according to the result of the judgment. After the input, the send button is pressed to send the evaluation mail to the content provider.

Note that the present embodiment is characterized in that the answerer is indirectly evaluated by letting the inquirer evaluate the answer. As illustrated in FIG. 7C, the evaluation is performed. Need not be limited to three stages. Also,
It is not necessary to require evaluation by setting up no answer.

On the content provider side, when the respondent evaluation management section 22 receives the evaluation mail sent from the inquirer, the respondent evaluation management section 22 gives the evaluation points included in the evaluation mail,
The accumulated points are updated by adding to the accumulated points in the field of the respondent recorded in the respondent information database 28. The association between the respondent to be evaluated, the response and the field may be referred to each database 24, 26, 28, or may be included in the e-mails to be sent and received (the reply mail and the evaluation mail). .

As described above, by allowing the inquirer to input the evaluation score, the cumulative points of the respondent and the correct answer are gradually increased. When sending the reply to the inquirer, add the cumulative points of the relevant field,
The display on the mobile phone 1 owned by the inquirer together with the answer has been described above. An inquirer who memorizes the name of the flower or flower that he / she inquired about, or who does not know at all, cannot deduce which is the correct answer when different answers are mixed. Therefore, in the present embodiment, as described above, the cumulative points of the respondents are displayed together with each answer as an index for deriving the correct answer. The inquirer can judge that an answer by an answerer with a large cumulative point is more likely to be a correct answer.

The process of returning an answer to the inquiry by the inquirer and further evaluating the respondent has been described above. When the above processing is completed, information regarding the inquiry becomes unnecessary. Therefore, when the above process is completed, each record relating to the inquiry can be deleted from the inquiry image information database 24 and the answer database 26. In the present embodiment, each database 24, 2
In order to prevent the information amount of 6 from becoming huge, it will be deleted, but it may be left as it is. However,
If you want to leave it, add a processing end flag to each record,
It is possible to distinguish the record from the query that has not answered the query by writing the end time.
It is appropriate for maintenance.

According to the present embodiment, it is possible to make an inquiry about an unknown matter by using the image as described above. For example, if you want to inquire "What is the name of the flower in this picture?" And "What is the name of the fish with a tail fin drawn in this picture?", Simply send the image of the object you want to inquire to the content provider side. Since you can send it, you can make an inquiry very easily. Also, since the image itself is presented instead of being expressed by characters to make an inquiry, the respondent can also accurately return the name of the inquired object, and the correct answer rate can be higher than that by an inquiry by characters.

The present embodiment is characterized in that an object that cannot be inquired unless it is an image is assumed and inquiries can be made by the image content of the object. However, if characters are captured by a camera and displayed as image data, inquiries other than names can be made. For example, what is the birthplace of the flowering plant called "Matebashii"? If the character "" is displayed as the image content, it is possible to make an inquiry similar to the conventional one. However, in the present embodiment, unlike the conventional case, it is possible to attach a photo of a material and make an inquiry.

By the way, as described above, when the inquirer who memorizes the name of the inquired item or who does not know at all gets different answers, it is not possible to deduce which is the correct answer. In the above explanation, the cumulative points of the respondents are also displayed as the index. However, when responding to inquiries only a few times, those who answered all questions were correct, and those who answered many, but those with a low rate of correct answers compared the accumulated points with the latter. There may be cases. Further, even if the cumulative points are simply indicated, it may not be possible to know how to evaluate the number of points. Therefore, instead of the accumulated points, or together with the accumulated points, the average score of the evaluation points and the ranking information of the respondents in the field may be displayed as the evaluation information of the respondents.

From the side of the content provider, it is desired that the correct answer can be presented to the inquirer faster and more reliably. This requires efforts to bring together more respondents and improve the quality of knowledgeable people. In the present embodiment, therefore, the point system is used for the evaluation of the respondents. That is, by adopting the point system, it is possible to give the respondent a reward commensurate with the accumulated points.

In this embodiment, the device used by the inquirer is a mobile phone with a built-in camera and an internet function, but the device is not limited to this. For example, it may be a camera-equipped mobile phone with an Internet function, or a combination of a scanner and a PC. Further, the acquisition route of the image content to be inquired can be acquired from the Internet without using a device such as a scanner. Further, it is possible to inquire of the content provider side about the image data stored therein without having the image capturing means.

[0051]

According to the present invention, an inquiry is sent as an image to the content provider side, and the contents of the inquiry can be presented to the respondent by the image content. You can contact us.

Since the inquirer can specify the desired number of answers, he or she can obtain a plurality of answers to one inquiry.

Further, since the evaluation information of the respondents is managed, it is possible to evaluate the respondents, and to present the evaluations to the inquirer as an index for selecting from a plurality of answers. You can

Further, since the respondent is notified that new inquiry information has been received, it is possible to immediately respond to the inquiry.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an image inquiry content system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of a query image information database in the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of an answer database in the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of a respondent information database in the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a transition of an example of a screen displayed on the mobile phone with a built-in camera when an inquiry is made in the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a transition of an example of a screen displayed on the information terminal device used by the respondent in the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a transition of an example of a screen displayed on a mobile phone with a built-in camera when an answer is received in the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Mobile phone with built-in camera, 2 Internet, 3
Information terminal device, 10 content system, 12 inquiry reception processing unit, 14 response processing unit, 16 inquiry screen display processing unit, 18 response reception processing unit, 20 inquiry notification processing unit, 22 respondent evaluation management unit, 24 inquiry image information database , 26 answer database, 28 answerer information database.

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Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. Inquiry processing means for receiving inquiry information including at least an inquiry image content and an answer destination sent from the inquirer side and accumulating in an inquiry image information database, and an inquiry screen for displaying the inquiry image content. Responding to the inquiry screen display processing means for displaying on the information terminal device used by the respondent, an answer acceptance processing means for accepting the answer from the respondent to the inquiry on the inquiry screen, and an answer accepted by the answer acceptance processing means. An image inquiry content system, comprising: an answer processing unit that transmits and displays an answer to an answer destination, and makes an inquiry by image content. 2. The image inquiry content system according to claim 1, wherein the inquiry side is provided with a communication terminal device for transmitting the image content. 3. The inquiry side is further provided with image capturing means having an image capturing function, and the communication terminal device transmits the image content captured by the image capturing means. The image inquiry content system according to claim 2. 4. The image inquiry content system according to claim 3, wherein the communication terminal device is a mobile phone with an Internet function equipped with the image capturing means. 5. An answer database for accumulating as many answers as the desired number of answers to the inquiry specified in the inquiry information in association with the inquiry identification information, wherein the answer reception processing means receives the answers received from the respondents. Writing to the answer database, the answer processing means, when the desired number of answers is written to the answer database, to collectively send the desired number of answers to the corresponding answer destination. The image inquiry content system according to claim 1, which is characterized in that. 6. The response processing means, when the time limit specified in the inquiry information has elapsed after receiving the inquiry information, or when the desired number of answers specified in the inquiry information are obtained. The image inquiry content system according to claim 5, wherein the answer received from the respondent is transmitted at the earliest one of them. 7. An answerer information database for storing the evaluation information of each answerer, and an answerer evaluation management means for managing the evaluation information of each answerer, wherein the answerer evaluation management means The image inquiry content system according to claim 6, wherein the answerer information database is updated with the evaluation information of the answerer who has made the answer, which is generated based on the evaluation points for each answer inputted by the inquirer who received the answer. . 8. The response processing means adds the evaluation information of the respondent to the response transmitted to the response destination, and thereby displays the evaluation of the respondent who made the response together with the response. The image inquiry content system according to item 7. 9. The image inquiry content system according to claim 1, further comprising inquiry notification processing means for notifying the respondent by e-mail that new inquiry information has been received. 10. The respondent information database further registers in advance the fields to be answered by each respondent, and the inquiry notification processing means refers to the respondent information database to newly accept an inquiry. 10. The image inquiry content system according to claim 9, wherein the electronic mail is transmitted only to the respondents who correspond to the field to which the image content belongs.