JP2013068978A - Sightseeing memorial album creation device and system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sightseeing memorial album creation system that utilizes a sightseeing guide system for portable terminal.SOLUTION: A sightseeing memorial album creation device which is connected to a photographing camera, a portable terminal for sightseeing guide, and an input/output terminal includes: means of associating a group code with a terminal code of the portable terminal to store them in a first database; means of transmitting a photography instruction to the photographing camera when receiving a photographing camera code and the terminal code from the portable terminal for sightseeing guide; means of receiving photographic image data from the photographing camera and storing the data associatively with a group code and the photographing camera code in a second database; means of acquiring all photographic image data based upon the received terminal code and displaying them; means of creating an album through selection of photographic images and pasting places in the album; and means of printing out the created album.

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus and a system for creating a sightseeing memorial album using a sightseeing guide system for portable terminals.

  Sightseeing guide systems using “portable terminals” such as mobile phones and PDAs have been developed, and there are an increasing number of places that provide services for lending mobile terminals to tourists in tourist areas. In recent years, not only the distribution of sightseeing spot information but also services such as a route guidance function and a ticket function can be received from this portable terminal.

  Patent document 1 is mention | raise | lifted as a well-known technical document relevant to this invention. In Patent Document 1, a tourist information distribution device registers personal information of a user in a recording device, and the personal information includes information on a tourist object that the user wants to distribute. A configuration is described in which, based on user location information acquired from a terminal via a network, guide content related only to a sightseeing target that the user desires to distribute is transmitted to the mobile terminal.

Japanese Patent Publication No. 2005-157977

  Mobile terminals for tourist guides are often rented / returned at tourist information centers, and these information centers are often installed in easy-to-use places. However, depending on the sightseeing spot, there may be a place where the information center is difficult to use due to the size of the sightseeing spot or the number of information centers is small. In such a case, tourists who borrowed a mobile terminal must go back to a remote place when returning, which makes the return annoying, time-consuming, uncomfortable, pleasant memories It can even be messed up. As countermeasures, it is possible to change or increase the location of the information center, but in reality it may not be easy.

  Therefore, in order to increase the motivation to return the borrowed mobile phone to the information desk, and to encourage the visit again, some kind of service is also included with the meaning of gratitude when returned. Is considered important.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a system that realize that a pleasant memory can be recorded in a record by creating a sightseeing memorial album from information of a returned portable terminal and providing it to a tourist.

The configuration of the present invention that achieves the above object is as follows.
A tourism memorial album creating apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a photographing camera installed in a sightseeing spot and having a unique photographing camera code, and a portable tourist guide that is rented to a tourist and has a unique terminal code. A tourism memorial album creating device for creating a tourism memorial album for tourism in a group of tourists connected to each terminal via a network and connected to an input / output terminal,
Means for associating a group code unique to a group and a terminal code of each tourist guide mobile terminal carried by each tourist included in the group in a first database;
Means for transmitting a shooting instruction to a shooting camera corresponding to the received shooting camera code in response to receiving the shooting camera code and the terminal code from the tourist guide portable terminal via a network;
A group acquired from the first database based on a terminal code received from the portable terminal for sightseeing guide in response to receiving photographed image data via the network from the photographing camera that has photographed according to the photographing instruction Means for associating a code, a shooting camera code of the shooting camera, and the received captured image data in a second database;
A corresponding group code is acquired from the first database based on the terminal code input from the input / output terminal, and all corresponding captured image data is acquired from the second database based on the acquired group code. Means,
Means for displaying captured images of all of the acquired captured image data on the input / output terminal;
Means for creating an album by pasting the selected photographed image to the designated location based on the selection of the photographed image input from the input / output terminal and the designation of the paste location in the album;
And a means for printing out the created album.

In the tourism commemorative album creating apparatus according to the first aspect, means for associating the shooting camera code with a tourist spot code unique to the tourist spot where the shooting camera is installed in a third database;
Means for associating the tourist destination code with tourist destination information and storing them in a fourth database;
Means for acquiring a corresponding sightseeing spot code from the third database based on a shooting camera code corresponding to each of all the captured image data acquired from the second database;
Means for acquiring corresponding sightseeing spot information from the fourth database based on the acquired sightseeing spot code,
It is preferable that the means for creating the album also provides the acquired sightseeing spot information to the album.

In the tourism commemorative album creating apparatus according to the first aspect, it is connected to a wireless marker installed in a tourist spot and having a unique tourist spot code via a network,
A fifth database storing the tourism code and the tourism guide information in association with each other;
In response to receiving the tourist destination code from the tourist guide portable terminal via the network, the corresponding tourist guide information is acquired from the fifth database based on the received tourist destination code, and the tourist guide mobile phone is obtained. It is preferable to further comprise means for transmitting to the terminal.

A second aspect of the present invention is a tourism memorial album creation system for creating a tourism memorial album in tourism in a group of a plurality of tourists,
A photographic camera installed in a tourist area and having a unique photographic camera code; a portable terminal for sightseeing guides rented to tourists and having a unique terminal code;
A sightseeing memorial album creating device connected via a network to each of the photographing camera and the portable terminal for sightseeing guide;
An input / output terminal connected to the tourism memorial album creation device,
The tourism memorial album creating device
Means for associating a group code unique to a group and a terminal code of each tourist guide mobile terminal carried by each tourist included in the group in a first database;
Means for transmitting a shooting instruction to a shooting camera corresponding to the received shooting camera code in response to receiving the shooting camera code and the terminal code from the tourist guide portable terminal via a network;
A group acquired from the first database based on a terminal code received from the portable terminal for sightseeing guide in response to receiving photographed image data via the network from the photographing camera that has photographed according to the photographing instruction Means for associating a code, a shooting camera code of the shooting camera, and the received captured image data in a second database;
A corresponding group code is acquired from the first database based on the terminal code input from the input / output terminal, and all corresponding captured image data is acquired from the second database based on the acquired group code. Means,
Means for displaying captured images of all of the acquired captured image data on the input / output terminal;
Means for creating an album by pasting the selected photographed image to the designated location based on the selection of the photographed image input from the input / output terminal and the designation of the paste location in the album;
And a means for printing out the created album.

In the tourism memorial album creation system of the second aspect,
The tourism memorial album creating device
Means for associating the photographing camera code with a tourist destination code unique to a tourist spot where the photographing camera is installed in a third database;
Means for associating the tourist destination code with tourist destination information and storing them in a fourth database;
Means for acquiring a corresponding sightseeing spot code from the third database based on a shooting camera code corresponding to each of all the captured image data acquired from the second database;
Means for acquiring corresponding sightseeing spot information from the fourth database based on the acquired sightseeing spot code,
It is preferable that the means for creating the album also provides the acquired sightseeing spot information to the album.

In the tourism album creating system of the second aspect,
The tourism memorial album creating device
It is connected via a network to a wireless marker that is installed in a tourist spot and has a unique tourist spot code.
A fifth database storing the tourism code and the tourism guide information in association with each other;
In response to receiving the tourist destination code from the tourist guide portable terminal via the network, the corresponding tourist guide information is acquired from the fifth database based on the received tourist destination code, and the tourist guide mobile phone is obtained. It is preferable to further comprise means for transmitting to the terminal.

According to the present invention, the following three effects can be obtained mainly.
(1) A tourist can take a picture without requesting another person because the photographing camera automatically shoots only by passing through a sightseeing spot where the photographic camera is installed. Further, by providing a hidden shooting point or the like where the position of the shooting camera is not recognized, it is possible to take a natural expression of the tourist.
(2) Since a photographed image photographed in association with any portable terminal in the group can be shared by the entire group, a favorite photograph at the time of creating a sightseeing album can be left as a memory.
(3) Since sightseeing spot information is added simply by selecting a photographed image, a sightseeing memorial album can be easily created.

It is a system configuration figure showing an example of an embodiment of the invention. It is a block diagram of the data stored in the sightseeing spot information database. It is a block diagram of the data stored in the picked-up image database. It is a block diagram of the data stored in the group information database. It is a block diagram of the data stored in the imaging camera information database. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a tourist's action. It is a flowchart which shows the process of the portable terminal for sightseeing guides. It is a flowchart which shows the process of a host apparatus. It is explanatory drawing of the specific example of the sightseeing commemorative album produced.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing an example of an embodiment of the present invention.
The sightseeing memorial album creation system using the sightseeing guide system for portable terminals has a one-to-one relationship with the host device 1, the photographing cameras 13a, 13b, 13c permanently installed in each sightseeing spot, and each photographing camera. Wireless marker 16a, 16b, 16c for camera photography installed in each sightseeing spot, wireless marker 14a, 14b, 14c for sightseeing guide installed in each sightseeing spot, and portable terminal 15a, 15b for sightseeing guide lent to tourists 15c.

  Hereinafter, a plurality of photographing cameras 13a, 13b, 13c, a plurality of camera photographing wireless markers 16a, 16b, 16c, a plurality of tourist guide wireless markers 14a, 14b, 14c, and a plurality of tourist guide portable terminals 15a, 15b, 15c. As a general name of each group or a name of any one of the groups, “shooting camera 13”, “camera shooting wireless marker 16”, “tourist guide wireless marker 14”, “tourist guide portable terminal 15” May be used. Moreover, the portable terminal for sightseeing guides may be simply referred to as “mobile terminal”.

  The host device 1 includes a sightseeing spot information database 7, a photographed image database 8, a group information database 9, a camera information database 10, and a sightseeing guide database 11, and is connected to an input / output terminal 12. The host device 1 and each of the photographing camera 13 and the tourist guide portable terminal 15 are connected via a network. The input / output terminal 12 includes an input device such as a keyboard and an output device such as a display device and a printing device.

  The system of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 has a configuration in which the functions of two systems, a tourist guide system for portable terminals and a sightseeing memorial album creation system, are integrated as one system. About the part of the tourist guide system for portable terminals, it is a well-known thing. The host device 1 is not only a host device for a sightseeing guide system but also a host device for a sightseeing memorial album creating system, that is, a sightseeing memorial album creating device.

  The host device 1 has therein a search processing unit 2, a transmission / reception unit 3, a print processing unit 4, an album creation processing unit 5, and a database update unit 6. The host device 1 is an appropriate computer into which a program for realizing the functions of these processing units and the like is introduced, and the functions of each processing unit and the like are realized by reading the program into the memory and executing it by the CPU.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of the data configuration held in the sightseeing spot information database 7 of the host device 1. In the sightseeing spot information database 7, information on sightseeing spots used when creating the album is stored for each sightseeing spot. As data items, there are a “tourist spot code” 21 for storing an identification code unique to the tourist spot, a “tourist spot name” 22 for storing the name of the tourist spot, and a “tourist spot information” 23 for storing specific information. Is provided.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of the data configuration held in the captured image database 8 of the host device 1. The photographing camera 13 installed in each sightseeing spot transmits photographed image data to the host device after photographing, but the host device 1 stores the photographed image data in this photographed image database 8 for each photographed image data. As data items, a “shooting camera code” 31 for storing an identification code unique to the photographed camera, a “group code” 32 for storing an identification code unique to the group to which the photographed tourist belongs, A “terminal code” 33 for storing an identification code unique to the portable terminal carried by the tourist and a “photographed image data” 34 for storing photographed image data are provided.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of the data configuration held in the group information database 9 of the host device 1. When a plurality of portable terminals are lent to a group of a plurality of tourists, the information is input from the input / output terminal 12 and stored in the group information database 9 for each portable terminal. As data items, a “group code” 41 that stores a group identification code, a “terminal code” 42 that stores a mobile terminal identification code, and a “tourist name” that stores the name of a tourist carrying the mobile terminal ”43 is provided.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of the data configuration held in the photographing camera information database 10 of the host device 1. Information about the installation location is stored for each photographing camera. As data items, a “shooting camera code” 51 for storing an identification code of a shooting camera, a “tourist spot code” 52 for storing a tourist spot code of a tourist spot that is the installation location of the shooting camera, and a name of the tourist spot are stored. “Sightseeing place name” 53 is provided.

  Although not shown, the tourist guide database 11 of the host device 1 of FIG. 1 stores information to be returned in response to a tourist guide information request from the tourist guide portable terminal 15. This database 11 is used only during sightseeing and is irrelevant to the album creation after the sightseeing.

  The plurality of databases shown in FIGS. 2 to 5 are linked by common data items.

  The transmission / reception unit 3 of the host device 1 performs a process of receiving information transmitted from the photographing camera 13 installed in each sightseeing spot and information transmitted from the tourist guide portable terminal 15. Moreover, the process which transmits the reply with respect to the sightseeing guide information request | requirement from the portable terminal for sightseeing guides is performed.

  The database update unit 6 of the host device 1 stores or updates information received or input from the photographing camera 13, the tourist guide portable terminal 15, and the input / output terminal 12 installed in each sightseeing spot in each database. I do.

  The search processing unit 2, the album creation processing unit 5 and the print processing unit 4 of the host device 1 perform processing for creating and printing a sightseeing memorial album based on information stored in each database. Although details will be described later with reference to FIG. 8, the search processing unit 2 searches for necessary information from the tourist spot information database 7, the photographed image database 8, the group information database 9, and the camera information database 10 when creating an album. Only necessary information is selected from the retrieved information by the input / output terminal 12, and based on the selected information, the album creation processing unit 5 creates a sightseeing memorial album. Further, the print processing unit 4 prints out the created sightseeing memorial album.

  Hereinafter, the operation of the sightseeing commemorative album creating system using the sightseeing guide system for portable terminals according to the present embodiment will be described. In the description, reference numerals in FIG. 1 may be referred to.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of behavior of tourists using this system.
A tourist rents a portable terminal 15 for sightseeing guide. At this time, group information for managing groups such as family members and friends is registered (step 601). Specifically, a group code is assigned, and the name of each tourist is input from the input / output terminal 12 and stored in the group information database 9 together with the terminal code of each rented mobile terminal.

The tourist uses the tourist guide portable terminal 15 in each tourist spot, and acquires tourist guide information (step 602). Shooting is automatically performed during sightseeing, but tourists are not conscious of shooting.
A tourist returns the portable terminal 15 for sightseeing guides after the end of sightseeing (step 603).
The tourist uses the input / output terminal 12 to select a captured image, a description of the sightseeing spot, and the like to create an album (step 604).
The tourist receives the printed album (step 605).

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing processing mainly using the portable terminal 15 for sightseeing guide.
Here, the tourist guide wireless marker 14 installed in each sightseeing spot always transmits a sightseeing spot code that can be received within the area of the sightseeing spot.
Further, the radio marker 16 for camera shooting installed corresponding to each shooting camera 13 always transmits a shooting camera code that can be received in the shooting area.
The tourist guide portable terminal 15 is in a waiting state of the tourist spot code or the photographing camera until the tourist spot code or the photographing camera code is received (steps 701 and 706).

“When a tourist destination code is received” (step 701), the flow is as follows.
The tourist guide portable terminal 15 acquires a tourist spot code from the guide wireless marker 14 installed in the tourist spot (step 702).
The tourist guide portable terminal 15 transmits the acquired sightseeing spot code to the host device 1 (step 703).
The host device 1 searches the tourist guide database 11 based on the received tourist destination code, and transmits the corresponding tourist guide information to the tourist guide portable terminal 15. The tourist guide portable terminal 15 receives the tourist guide information (step 704).
The tourist guide portable terminal 15 displays the received tourist guide information on the display. (Step 705)

“When a photographic camera code is received” (step 706) is as follows.
The tourist guide portable terminal 15 acquires the shooting camera code from the camera shooting wireless marker 16 installed corresponding to each shooting camera 13 (step 707).
The tourist guide portable terminal 15 transmits the acquired camera code to the host device 1 (step 708). When the sightseeing guide portable terminal 15 transmits any data to the host device 1, the terminal code is also transmitted.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the processing of the host device 1.
The host device 1 requests the album creation process from the input / output terminal 12 (step 801), requests the tourist guide information by the tourist destination code transmitted from the tourist guide portable terminal 15 (step 807), and the tourist guide portable terminal. The following processing is performed in response to either the camera shooting instruction (step 810) by the shooting camera code transmitted from 15 or the reception of the shot image data transmitted from the shooting camera 13 (step 812).

“In the case of album creation processing” (step 801) is as follows.
The terminal code of the tourist guide portable terminal 15 is input from the input / output terminal 12. (Step 802)
Based on the input terminal code, a group code is searched and acquired from the group information database 9 (step 803).

  Based on the group code, the tourist area information database 7, the photographed image database 8, and the photographed camera information database 10 are searched to obtain photographed image data for each tourist spot. First, using the group code as a key, all captured image data records for the group are acquired from the captured image database 8. Next, with respect to the acquired record, the shooting camera code is used as a key, and the sightseeing spot code is associated with each record from the shooting camera information database 10. Thereby, the captured image data is classified for each sightseeing spot. Thereafter, the sightseeing spot information is obtained by associating the sightseeing spot name with the sightseeing spot information database 7 using the sightseeing spot code as a key. In this way, a list of photographed image data including tourist spot information for each tourist spot is obtained (step 804). A photographed image list is displayed on the input / output terminal 12 based on the photographed image data list.

A photographed image desired by the user is selected from the photographed image list for each sightseeing spot displayed on the input / output terminal 12 using the input / output terminal 12, and the page and position of the album to which the selected photographed image is pasted A pasting location such as is specified using the input / output terminal 12. The selected photographed image is pasted to the designated pasting location of the album to create an album. At this time, sightseeing spot information is also given to the album (step 805). The created album is displayed on the input / output terminal 12.
The created album is printed out (step 806). A part of the created album is shown in FIG.

In the case of “tourist guide information request” (step 807), the flow is as follows.
Using the tourist destination code received from the tourist guide portable terminal 15 as a key, the tourist guide database 11 is searched to obtain target tourist guide information (step 808).
The acquired tourist guide information is transmitted to the tourist guide portable terminal 15 (step 809).

“In the case of camera shooting instruction” (step 810) is as follows.
A shooting instruction is transmitted to the target shooting camera 13 based on the shooting camera code received from the tourist guide portable terminal 15 (step 811). When receiving the shooting instruction, the shooting camera 13 performs shooting and transmits the shot image data to the host device 1.

“In the case of receiving a captured image” (step 812) is as follows.
The photographed image data received from the photographing camera 13 is stored in the photographed image database 8 together with the group code. The group code is previously retrieved from the group information database 9 based on the terminal code received together with the photographing camera code from the tourist guide portable terminal 15 (step 813).

FIG. 9 is an example of a tourism memorial album that is created.
An original album is created by placing tourist spot information such as a map of a tourist spot showing the shooting location and an explanation along with the shot image.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Host device, 2 ... Search processing part, 3 ... Transmission / reception part, 4 ... Print processing part, 5 ... Album creation processing part, 6 ... Database update part, 7 ... Sightseeing area information database, 8... Photographic image database, 9... Group information database, 10... Camera information database, 11. 13c ... Camera, 14a, 14b, 14c ... Tourist guide wireless marker, 15a, 15b, 15c ... Tourist guide portable terminal, 16a, 16b, 16c ... Camera radio marker

Claims (6)

Connected to the I / O terminal via the network with each of the photographing camera installed in the tourist area and having a unique photographing camera code, and the portable terminal for sightseeing guide lent to the tourist and having the unique terminal code A tourism memorial album creation device for creating a tourism memorial album for tourism in a group consisting of a plurality of tourists,
Means for associating a group code unique to a group and a terminal code of each tourist guide mobile terminal carried by each tourist included in the group in a first database;
Means for transmitting a shooting instruction to a shooting camera corresponding to the received shooting camera code in response to receiving the shooting camera code and the terminal code from the tourist guide portable terminal via a network;
A group acquired from the first database based on a terminal code received from the portable terminal for sightseeing guide in response to receiving photographed image data via the network from the photographing camera that has photographed according to the photographing instruction Means for associating a code, a shooting camera code of the shooting camera, and the received captured image data in a second database;
A corresponding group code is acquired from the first database based on the terminal code input from the input / output terminal, and all corresponding captured image data is acquired from the second database based on the acquired group code. Means,
Means for displaying captured images of all of the acquired captured image data on the input / output terminal;
Means for creating an album by pasting the selected photographed image to the designated location based on the selection of the photographed image input from the input / output terminal and the designation of the paste location in the album;
And a means for printing out the created album. Means for associating the photographing camera code with a tourist destination code unique to a tourist spot where the photographing camera is installed in a third database;
Means for associating the tourist destination code with tourist destination information and storing them in a fourth database;
Means for acquiring a corresponding sightseeing spot code from the third database based on a shooting camera code corresponding to each of all the captured image data acquired from the second database;
Means for acquiring corresponding sightseeing spot information from the fourth database based on the acquired sightseeing spot code,
The tourism album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the album creating unit also adds the acquired sightseeing spot information to the album. It is connected via a network to a wireless marker that is installed in a tourist spot and has a unique tourist spot code.
A fifth database storing the tourism code and the tourism guide information in association with each other;
In response to receiving the tourist destination code from the tourist guide portable terminal via the network, the corresponding tourist guide information is acquired from the fifth database based on the received tourist destination code, and the tourist guide mobile phone is obtained. The tourism memorial album creating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for transmitting to the terminal. A tourism album creation system for creating a tourism album for tourism in a group of multiple tourists,
A photographic camera installed in a tourist area and having a unique photographic camera code; a portable terminal for sightseeing guides rented to tourists and having a unique terminal code;
A sightseeing memorial album creating device connected via a network to each of the photographing camera and the portable terminal for sightseeing guide;
An input / output terminal connected to the tourism memorial album creation device,
The tourism memorial album creating device
Means for associating a group code unique to a group and a terminal code of each tourist guide mobile terminal carried by each tourist included in the group in a first database;
Means for transmitting a shooting instruction to a shooting camera corresponding to the received shooting camera code in response to receiving the shooting camera code and the terminal code from the tourist guide portable terminal via a network;
A group acquired from the first database based on a terminal code received from the portable terminal for sightseeing guide in response to receiving photographed image data via the network from the photographing camera that has photographed according to the photographing instruction Means for associating a code, a shooting camera code of the shooting camera, and the received captured image data in a second database;
A corresponding group code is acquired from the first database based on the terminal code input from the input / output terminal, and all corresponding captured image data is acquired from the second database based on the acquired group code. Means,
Means for displaying captured images of all of the acquired captured image data on the input / output terminal;
Means for creating an album by pasting the selected photographed image to the designated location based on the selection of the photographed image input from the input / output terminal and the designation of the paste location in the album;
Means for printing out the created album, and a sightseeing album creating system. The tourism memorial album creating device
Means for associating the photographing camera code with a tourist destination code unique to a tourist spot where the photographing camera is installed in a third database;
Means for associating the tourist destination code with tourist destination information and storing them in a fourth database;
Means for acquiring a corresponding sightseeing spot code from the third database based on a shooting camera code corresponding to each of all the captured image data acquired from the second database;
Means for acquiring corresponding sightseeing spot information from the fourth database based on the acquired sightseeing spot code,
5. The tourism memorial album creating system according to claim 4, wherein the album creating means also adds the acquired sightseeing spot information to the album. The tourism memorial album creating device
It is connected via a network to a wireless marker that is installed in a tourist spot and has a unique tourist spot code.
A fifth database storing the tourism code and the tourism guide information in association with each other;
In response to receiving the tourist destination code from the tourist guide portable terminal via the network, the corresponding tourist guide information is acquired from the fifth database based on the received tourist destination code, and the tourist guide mobile phone is obtained. The tourism commemorative album creating system according to claim 4, further comprising means for transmitting to the terminal.

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