JP2008108013A - Information adding device and information adding method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an information source to pay part of photographic printing cost and to substantially equally add information to the inside and outside of a photograph in printing by adding data of a logo mark or CI mark only to the inside of the photograph, and adding information composed of the other data to the outside of the photograph. <P>SOLUTION: According to this information adding device and information adding method including a first mode of inserting the information in the inside of the screen to a photographed image and a second mode of disposing it outside of the screen, printing of the image is controlled to make the number of prints in the first mode and the number of prints in the second mode substantially equal to each other. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention provides an apparatus for adding information such as an advertisement to an image including a photograph and an information addition method that is useful for both a photographer or an observer who observes a photograph and an information source, for example, an information source such as an advertiser. In addition, the present invention relates to an information adding apparatus in which a large amount of information is added to an image including a large number of photographs, and the information source bears at least a part of the costs related to printing and processing of photographs.

Conventionally, it has been disclosed that when an advertisement is embedded in a screen, the print fee is reduced as compared with the case where the advertisement is arranged on the side outside the screen (Patent Document 1).

Patent registration 3632833

In the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, it is disclosed that when an advertisement is embedded in a screen, the printing fee is reduced as compared with the case where the advertisement is arranged on the side outside the screen. That is, it discloses that an advertiser bears a printing fee for an advertisement that cannot be separated from a photograph.

Embedding information such as advertisements in a photograph is advantageous because the information remains with the photograph from the source. However, a print requester such as a person who has a printed photo, a person who is given a gift, etc., does not want the information as long as the information is not suitable for the photo, no matter how small the information is. On the other hand, if there is information such as advertisements outside the photo, the information part is cut off and discarded, and the information source has no effect on the information source. It disappears except when I see it.

The present invention is intended to solve the problems of such a conventional configuration, and is an image with information to which information is added to an image taken by a photographer, and the information is a company name / organization. It consists of image data such as a logo mark or CI mark in which a name, a trademark name, a product name, a nickname, etc. are designed using design characters, or an image such as a message including the image and character data. A logo mark or CI mark added to a photograph improves the name recognition of a company with a low level of recognition, but it has little merit for a famous company. From the perspective of the information source, there is a great effect for those who appeal for company messages, products, etc. in words. In the present invention, when the information is image data such as a logo mark or a CI mark, the advertisement is inserted into the image, and the information includes an image such as a message including an image other than the company logo mark and the CI mark, and the like. In the case of character data, the advertisement is placed outside the image, and an apparatus that can satisfy the information source and the print requester equally when printing is provided.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a first mode in which information such as an advertisement is inserted into the image and printed on the photographed image, and the information is placed outside the image and printed. 2 mode, the number of prints in the first mode and the second mode is the same when the number of prints of the image is an even number, and the odd number is newly added when the number of prints is an odd number. An information adding device provided with a control means for controlling the number of printed sheets in the first and second modes to be the same number by adding an odd number of sheets to an even number of sheets. This also provides a fair information addition apparatus for printing requesters who are subsidized at the time of printing.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information adding method for adding information such as an advertisement to a photographed image. When the number of prints is an even number, the image is inserted into the image and printed. The number of prints in the mode and the second mode in which the information is arranged outside the image and printing, and when the number of prints of the image is odd, the odd number is newly added to the odd number Is added to form an even number of sheets, and an information adding method including a step of setting the number of prints in the first and second modes to the same number is provided. The client also provides a fair information addition method at the time of printing.

  As described above, the present invention is intended to solve the problem of such a conventional configuration, and since the information to be added together with the image including the photo is the same in the first and second modes, When the company logo or CI mark in the first mode is embedded in the image, the image requester can be satisfied because the image area is large, and in the second mode, the information is the company logo mark or In the case of image and character data such as a message including an image other than the CI mark, the advertisement is placed outside the image and the advertisement is conspicuous, which is effective for the information source. This is partly borne and is effective information because a message that is effective for both the print requester and the information source is added to the photograph.

  FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of an information adding apparatus of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 denotes an image server, 2 denotes an information server, 3 denotes a control device, 4 denotes a synthesis system for synthesizing information and an image, and 5 denotes a print system for printing the image and information synthesized by the synthesis system 4. .

FIG. 2 is a flowchart regarding information arrangement indicating the contents of the control device 3.
When the information server 2 determines whether the information is a logo mark or a CI mark as indicated by S1, and if it is determined that the information is only a logo mark or a CI mark, the information is displayed on the screen as indicated by S2, otherwise Is controlled to be arranged outside the screen as shown in S3, and the image from the image server 1 and the information data from the information server 2 are synthesized by the synthesis system 4 as shown in FIG. I do.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart relating to printing showing the contents of the control device 3. First, it is determined whether the number of printed sheets is an even number (S4). If it is an even number, the same number of information that is arranged on the screen and the information that is arranged outside the screen are printed (S5). If it is an odd number, the number of prints is an odd number, for example, one is added to make an even number (S6), and the same number of information is placed on the screen and the information placed on the screen is printed (S7).

FIG. 4 shows a diagram in which a logo mark or a CI mark is actually embedded in the image, and FIG. 5 shows a diagram in which data other than the logo mark or the CI mark is arranged outside the image.

According to the present invention, in the case of image data whose information is a logo mark or a CI mark, the information is embedded in the image, and when it is not such image data, the information is arranged outside the image so that the information is like the image data. Compact data is conspicuous in the image, but it does not become complicated and becomes an effective advertisement for customers and information sources, and the information owner and the print requester can be satisfied equally. For example, when the print requester requests 20 prints, the first mode and the second mode are alternately performed as a method of performing printing in the first mode and the second mode in substantially the same number, or 10 sheets are combined. Then, printing may be performed in the first mode, and then 10 sheets may be printed together.

1 shows a block diagram according to the present invention. 3 shows a flowchart relating to information arrangement according to the present invention. 3 is a flowchart regarding printing according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Image server 2 ... Information server 3 ... Control system 4 ... Composition system 5 ... Print system

Claims (2)

A first mode in which information such as an advertisement is inserted into the image and printed with respect to the photographed image; and a second mode in which the information is placed outside the image and printed. When the number of printed images is an even number, the number of prints in the first mode and the second mode is the same. When the number of prints is an odd number, an odd number is added to the odd number to add an even number. And an information adding device comprising control means for controlling the number of prints in the first and second modes to be the same. An information addition method for printing information such as advertisements to a photographed image. When the number of prints is an even number, a first mode for printing by inserting the image into the image and the information in the image The number of prints in the second mode to be arranged outside the print mode, and when the number of prints of the image is an odd number, an odd number is added to the odd number to make an even number An information addition method comprising a step of setting the same number of prints in the first and second modes.