JP2004030031A - Photographing status management server, photographing status management system, and photographing status management program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photographing status management server capable of providing statistical information on photographing statuses of a plurality of digital cameras, a photographing status management system using the photographing status management server, and a photographing status management program. <P>SOLUTION: A photographing information storage part 105 stores photographing information transmitted from a digital camera 100 with respect to all users of the system. At the interval of a fixed term, a statistic part 106 produces statistical information on the photographing status within a theme park from the photographing information stored in the photographing information storage part 105 and transmits the statistical information to an information working server 112. The information working server 112 works the received statistical information by a statistical information working part 114 and creates a photographing distribution map. The created photographing distribution map is printed out and provided to the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a shooting status management server, a shooting status management system, and a shooting status management program that provide statistical information related to shooting status of a digital camera.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, position information acquired by a GPS receiver mounted on a digital camera and a captured image are wirelessly transmitted to a server, and the server is configured for each shooting date and time and shooting location based on the position information transmitted from the digital camera. A service for classifying photographed images and creating an album or the like in which photographing dates and times or photographing locations are associated with photographed images is performed at a theme park or the like.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The conventional service described above is to create an album by associating a photographed image taken by a digital camera user with its position information, and only the photographer's individual can use the photographer's individual information. It was. In other words, the server has shooting information such as shooting location and shooting date taken by the user as information for each user, and all the service users in the entire theme park possessing statistics of the individual shooting information collectively possessed by the server. I didn't have any information about the shooting situation of the digital camera.
[0004]
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a shooting situation management server capable of providing statistical information related to shooting situations of a plurality of digital cameras, and a shooting situation management system using the shooting situation management server And an imaging situation management program.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The shooting status management server of the present invention includes a storage unit that stores shooting information of a plurality of digital cameras, a statistical information generation unit that generates statistical information related to shooting states of the plurality of digital cameras based on the shooting information, Providing means for providing the statistical information in response to a request.
[0006]
With this configuration, it is possible to provide statistical information regarding the shooting status of a plurality of digital cameras.
[0007]
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a shooting situation management system, and shooting distribution information providing means for generating and providing shooting distribution information of the plurality of digital cameras based on the statistical information. A shooting situation management system characterized by that.
[0008]
The shooting situation management system of the present invention is a digital camera in which the plurality of digital cameras are used in a theme park, and the shooting distribution information is correlated with the map of the theme park by the digital camera. It is a photographing distribution chart displaying a photographed photographing location distribution or a table representing the number of photographing times at each photographing location.
[0009]
With this configuration, the theme park manager can use the shooting distribution map and table to know places where shooting is frequently performed, which can be used for the management of the theme park. Also, users of the theme park can know popular places where there are many shootings, which can be useful for making action plans.
[0010]
The shooting situation management program of the present invention includes a step of storing shooting information of a plurality of digital cameras, a step of generating statistical information relating to shooting situations of the plurality of digital cameras based on the shooting information, and upon request. A program for causing a computer to realize the step of providing the statistical information.
[0011]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Hereinafter, for example, a case where the shooting situation management system is used in a theme park such as Disneyland will be described. In the description of the present embodiment, the shooting status management server according to the present invention will be described in detail. However, the shooting status management program according to the present invention is a program for realizing each component included in the shooting status management server. Therefore, the description regarding the program is included in the following description.
[0012]
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a shooting situation management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The shooting situation management system 1 includes a digital camera 100 that is lent to a user of this system for a fee or free of charge, a wireless base station 101 arranged for each area in the theme park, a service center 102 having a shooting situation management server 103, and information A processing server 112 is provided. The digital camera 100 communicates with the wireless base station 101 by wire or wireless. The wireless base station 101 communicates with the shooting situation management server 103 by wire or wirelessly, and transmits information transmitted from the digital camera 100 to the shooting situation management server 103. The imaging state management server 103 and the information processing server 112 can communicate wirelessly or by wire.
[0013]
The digital camera 100 includes a transmission unit 109, a GPS information acquisition unit 110, and a control unit 111. The transmission unit 109 transmits the captured image and the shooting information (shooting location information, shooting date / time information, user ID, and the like) related to the shot image to the shooting state management server 103. The GPS information acquisition unit 110 acquires position information and date / time information (hereinafter referred to as GPS information) from GPS data transmitted from a GPS satellite via the GPS information acquisition antenna 116. The control unit 111 controls the above units.
[0014]
The photographing state management server 103 includes a receiving unit 104, a photographing information storage unit 105 corresponding to a storage unit for claims, a statistical unit 106 corresponding to a statistical information generation unit for claims, and a provision unit for claims. The transmission unit 107 and the control unit 108 corresponding to the above are provided.
[0015]
The receiving unit 104 receives shooting information transmitted from the digital camera 100. The shooting information storage unit 105 stores shooting information received by the receiving unit 104 for all users of the system. The statistical unit 106 statistically records the distribution of the shooting positions in the theme park for each item such as the user's age, time zone, and period, and stores the collected shooting information in a recording unit (not shown). . The transmission unit 107 transmits the statistical information statistically calculated by the statistical unit 106 to the information processing server 112. The control unit 108 controls each of the above units.
[0016]
Next, the statistics unit 106 will be described in detail.
The statistics unit 106 determines the age of the user who has taken the image based on the user ID included in the shooting information stored in the shooting information storage unit 105, and the shooting distribution for each user age based on the GPS information. Generate statistical information about the situation.
[0017]
Further, the statistical unit 106 generates statistical information related to the shooting distribution status for each time zone based on the GPS information included in the shooting information stored in the shooting information storage unit 105.
[0018]
Further, the statistical unit 106 generates statistical information related to the shooting distribution status for each month or year based on the GPS information included in the shooting information stored in the shooting information storage unit 105.
[0019]
Also, statistical information regarding the number of times of photographing for each photographing place is generated.
[0020]
The information processing server 112 includes a receiving unit 113, a statistical information processing unit 114, and a shooting distribution information providing unit 115. The statistical information processing unit 114 and the photographic distribution information providing unit 115 correspond to the photographic distribution information providing unit in the claims.
[0021]
The receiving unit 113 receives the statistical information transmitted from the shooting situation management server 103 and inputs the statistical information to the statistical information processing unit 114. The statistical information processing unit 114 processes the input statistical information to generate shooting distribution information. Specifically, based on statistical information for each user's age, time zone, or period, a shooting distribution map plotted on a theme park map with the shooting position as a point is created, or shooting is performed. A table representing the shooting spot ranking or the like is created based on the total number of shootings for each place.
[0022]
The photographic distribution information providing unit 115 prints out the photographic distribution map and the photographic spot ranking table created by the statistical information processing unit 114 and provides them to the user at the service center 102 (or discloses them at the service center 102). Shooting distribution information is provided to the user by, for example, a method of transmitting to the digital camera 100 via the wireless base station 101 or enabling the browsing on the website.
[0023]
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of shooting distribution information processed by the information processing server 112. In the same figure, for example, a display example of a web page displayed when photographing distribution information can be viewed on a website is shown.
[0024]
As shown in FIG. 2, on the web page, a plot corresponding to a place where each user of the present system has taken a picture is displayed on a map A of the theme park. Note that the map A is displayed divided into areas. Here, when the user selects various items of the shooting distribution on the web page, the user can browse the shooting distribution chart of each item. When the item “photographing spot ranking” is selected, the screen changes to FIG. 2B, and the total number of times of photographing of popular photographing spots is displayed.
[0025]
FIG. 3 is a sequence chart for explaining the flow until the user of the photographing situation management system browses the photographing distribution map.
[0026]
First, the user of this system performs user registration at the service center 102 and rents the digital camera 100 to which the user ID is assigned. Thereafter, when the user starts shooting in the theme park (S301), the digital camera 100 acquires shooting position information and shooting date / time information (GPS information) when shooting is performed (S302), and acquires the acquired GPS. The information and the assigned user ID are transmitted to the photographing situation management server 103 (S303). The shooting state management server 103 stores shooting information transmitted from the digital camera 100 for all users (S304). Then, a database (statistical information) is created at regular intervals based on the stored shooting information (S305). The created statistical information is transmitted to the information processing server 112 (S306), where it is processed (S307). The photographic distribution information obtained as a result of the processing is provided to the user (S308) and can be viewed by the user on the website as shown in FIG.
[0027]
As described above, according to the present embodiment, the theme park administrator can determine which location in the theme park is the most popular shooting spot by looking at the shooting distribution map displayed on the website. It can be used for the management of the theme park. In addition, the user can know which place is a popular spot for photographing, and can make an action plan according to the popular spot for photographing.
[0028]
In the present embodiment, the information processing server 112 performs creation of statistical information, provision of shooting distribution information, and the like. However, these may be performed by the shooting status management server 103.
[0029]
The photographic distribution information may be created by the photographic situation management server 103, and the photographic distribution information may be printed out or recorded on a recording medium by a printer or recording device connected to the photographing situation management server 103.
[0030]
The distribution of shooting distribution information may be provided only to users of the present system, or may be provided to all persons in the theme park.
[0031]
Moreover, in this embodiment, although it is set as the structure which provides imaging | photography distribution information based on the imaging | photography information transmitted from the digital camera lent out in the theme park, it is not limited to this but covers wide areas, such as a sightseeing spot Alternatively, it is also possible to provide a service that provides statistics on the distribution of photography in Japan by statistically collecting the information on the distribution of photography in theme parks and sightseeing spots throughout the country.
[0032]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a shooting situation management server capable of providing statistical information related to shooting situations of a plurality of digital cameras, a shooting situation management system using the shooting situation management server, and a shooting situation management program. Can do.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a shooting situation management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of shooting distribution information processed by the information processing server 112;
FIG. 3 is a sequence chart for explaining a flow until a user of an imaging state management system browses an imaging distribution map.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Shooting situation management system 1
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Digital camera 101 Wireless base station 102 Service center 103 Shooting condition management server 104,113 Reception part 105 Shooting information storage part 106 Statistics part 107,109 Transmission part 108,111 Control part 110 GPS information acquisition part 112 Information processing server 114 Statistical information Processing unit 116 GPS data acquisition antenna

Claims (3)

Storage means for storing shooting information of a plurality of digital cameras;
Statistical information generating means for generating statistical information on the shooting status of the plurality of digital cameras based on the shooting information;
An imaging situation management server comprising: providing means for providing the statistical information in response to a request. A shooting situation management server according to claim 1;
An imaging situation management system comprising imaging distribution information providing means for generating and providing imaging distribution information of the plurality of digital cameras based on the statistical information. Storing shooting information of a plurality of digital cameras;
Generating statistical information on the shooting status of the plurality of digital cameras based on the shooting information;
A shooting situation management program for causing a computer to realize the step of providing the statistical information upon request.

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