JP2003303180A - Address book registering system to portable terminal by business card image transfer - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automate manual input of a name, an address, or the like of a business card or the like into a portable terminal using an image. <P>SOLUTION: When a digital camera or the like is used, the business card is photographed as an image, and the image is transferred by telephone to the address of a system for storing the image as an address book into a database, a part of the image is recognized by text, returned as data of a name, an address, a number, or the like to a client, and easily registered by the client into a cellular phone or the like of the client. Not only the text but also a picture or the like can be stored in the database, and the picture is used as an image of a registered person. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for recognizing image data, such as business cards, transferred from a portable terminal such as a mobile phone, as a part of text data and a part of the image data as an image. This is a system that can be returned to the transfer source as a database (address book, etc.) and registered in the mobile phone as an address book. 2. Description of the Related Art There are many opportunities for exchanging business cards and the like when going out. In such a case, it would be convenient if the name card and the address of the business card were manually input, although it would be convenient if the business card received could be immediately registered in an address book on a mobile phone or the like. [0003] The present invention uses a digital camera or the like provided in a portable terminal to photograph a business card as an image, and call the location of a system for creating a database of the image as an address book. When the transfer is performed, a part of the image is recognized as text, and is returned to the request destination as data such as a name, an address, and a number, so that the requester can easily register the data on his or her mobile phone. In addition, not only text but also photos and the like can be incorporated in the database and used as images of registered persons to enhance convenience. [0004] The image of a business card transferred from a requester is recognized as a text or image by using generally available software. [0005] Recognized text data is rearranged in units of capture (for example, in units of lines). [0006] Of the rearranged data lines, the address is compared with a place name address existing in Japan, and a line containing a place name and a numeral is registered as an address in the return address book. Of the sorted data rows,
Is registered as the name of the address book for return address. [0008] Of the captured data, image data such as photographs are registered for return as related data of 0006 and 0007. The procedures from 0004 to 0008 are provided as a service using a telephone line. According to the present invention, a terminal user such as a mobile phone does not need to input an address, a telephone number, and the like by himself, and the convenience of the terminal address book is dramatically improved.

──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification symbol FI theme coat ゛ (Reference) H04M 3/493 H04M 3/493 (72) Inventor Hidenori Takahashi 1-111-15 Kashiwaza, Ageo-shi, Saitama (72) Inventor Daisuke Yamagishi 2-59-9, Horikiri, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo 603 (72) Asako Tanabe 5-40-2, Sakuragaoka 5-chome, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 203 (72) Inventor Yosuke Kanamori Hirai, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo 2-4-4 6F term (reference) 5B019 GA10 JA10 KA01 5B064 AA07 5K015 AA00 5K024 AA74 BB04 CC11 5K036 AA07 BB01 DD31 EE01 EE11

Claims (1)

[Claim 1] The transmitted business card image information is stored in an address,
Reply with data such as name so that it can be automatically registered in the address book on the mobile phone.