JP2008108015A - Information addition device and information addition method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that while an information origin shares a part of print costs of phtographic prints added with information such as advertisements, the large number of advertisements added to a phtography makes it difficult to manage advertisements. <P>SOLUTION: In the information addition device and the information addition method, which add information to a photographed image and print the photographed image, the number of sheets of a print request is accepted in predetermined number-of-sheet unit, and the predetermined number of information are added. When the number of sheets of the print request does not reach the predetermined number of sheets, the predetermined information is added. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus for adding information such as an advertisement to an image including a photograph and an information addition method that is useful to both a photographer or an observer who observes a photograph and an advertiser, and in particular from an information source such as an advertiser. An information adding device that adds information such as advertisements to an image including a large number of photographs, and that an information source such as an advertiser bears at least a part of expenses related to printing and processing of pictures. It relates to the addition method.

Conventionally, an advertisement is added to the photographed image and the advertiser pays the printing fee. From the viewpoint of the advertiser, there is a concern that the advertisement is actually added. Therefore, a patent that counts the number of advertisements that have been truly added is disclosed (for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2001-28078 A

In the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, an invention for counting the number of advertisements that have been truly added has been made, but in the above invention, the advertiser can trust that the advertisement has been added to the photo without doubt. However, the larger the advertiser, the larger the number of advertisements handled, and it is cumbersome and troublesome to monitor or input the count value every time an advertisement is added to a photo as in the present invention. is there.

The present invention is intended to solve such a conventional problem, and provides an information addition device and an information addition method that are easy to manage for an information source of information such as an advertiser, especially a large information source. is there.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information adding apparatus for adding information to a photographed image for printing, accepting a print request number in a predetermined number unit, adding information of the predetermined number of items, and printing request number The present invention relates to an information adding device for adding predetermined information when the predetermined number is not reached.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information adding method for adding information to a photographed image, a step of accepting a print request number in a predetermined number unit, a step of adding information of the predetermined number of items, and the print request number And a step of adding predetermined information when the predetermined number is not reached.

  As described above, the information source of the advertiser or the like is convenient for the print requester by assisting the print fee of the print requester, and the information source of the advertiser or the like increases because the number of prints increases and the number of prints increases. It is also convenient for. The larger the information source, such as the advertiser, is, the more advertisements are added to the photo, and it is cumbersome and cumbersome to monitor or enter the count value each time an advertisement is added. Therefore, a certain number of advertisements are managed as in the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing 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. .
The control device 3 has a counter for counting the number of sheets (not shown).

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control device 3 of the information adding device of the present invention, that is, the distribution of advertisements. First, a print request is received from the print requester as indicated by S1, and the number of prints requested by the print requester is (aN + b) as indicated by S2. In S3, advertisement distribution is shown. Here, N indicates a set of N sheets, a indicates the number of sets of N sets, b indicates the remaining number of sheets, and the total number of printed sheets is (aN + b). N types of advertisements are added to each photograph for each type of advertisement, and predetermined advertisements are added to the remaining b pieces.

As an example, when a request is made for the number of printed photos with advertisements to be 35, 10 is taken as one set. For 35 sheets, there are 3 sets of 10 sheets and the remaining number is 5. Here, addition of information such as an advertisement will be described. One advertisement is added to each of ten sheets, and information such as a predetermined advertisement is added to the remaining five sheets. In other words, ten photographs are added for three advertisements, and ten sheets may be managed as management positions. Further, the remaining five sheets are allocated to predetermined advertisements, for example, advertisements introducing the system of the present invention, which are just examples, and public advertisements.

The block diagram of the information addition apparatus which concerns on this invention is shown. It is a flowchart which shows the content (advertisement distribution) of the control apparatus of the information addition apparatus which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

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

Claims (2)

An information adding device for adding information to a photographed image and printing, accepting a print request number in a predetermined number unit and adding the predetermined number of information, respectively, and the print request number reaches the predetermined number An information adding device that adds predetermined information when not. An information addition method for adding information to a photographed image, a step of accepting a print request number in a predetermined number unit, a step of adding information on the predetermined number of items, and the print request number being the predetermined number An information adding method comprising: adding predetermined information when the number of sheets is not reached.