JP2016167770A - Information processing apparatus and information processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily generate a document which meets the use conditions of an image sharing server, in an information processing apparatus which generates a document by using image data acquired from the image sharing server.SOLUTION: The information processing apparatus comprises: acquisition means which acquires image data and information on use conditions associated to the image data from the image sharing server; storage means which stores information on the use conditions acquired by the acquisition means; generation means which generates a document for a predetermined output purpose by using the image data acquired by the acquisition means; and determination means which determines whether the output purpose of the document generated by the generation means and the use conditions associated to the image data to be used to generate the document match or not. The generation means generates the document by applying a process corresponding to a result of the determination by the determination means to the image data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method for generating a document using image data acquired from an image sharing server.

There is an application that acquires image data desired by a user using an inter-server cooperation API of an external image sharing server and generates a document using the image data. There are usage conditions for each source of image data, which must be observed. In order to comply with the usage conditions, there is a method of setting usage conditions for individual images and limiting the usage.
As a method of restricting the use according to the usage conditions of individual images, when releasing multiple images, if the release conditions are set according to the ownership of each image and there are images that do not agree to be released by the deadline, Some are deleted and published (see Patent Document 1).
In addition, when editing data including image data to which a copyright is set, there is one that obtains image data and display attributes and performs editing restrictions (see Patent Document 2).

JP 2009-265885 A JP 2009-93600 A

Usage conditions of image data in the image sharing server may change. For this reason, the use conditions of the image data may be different between the acquisition of the image data and the use of the image data (document generation). In this case, a document generated using such image data may not match the current image data usage conditions of the image sharing server depending on the document output purpose.
An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of easily generating a document that satisfies the usage conditions of an image sharing server in an information processing apparatus that generates a document using image data acquired from an image sharing server. .

The present invention provides an acquisition means for acquiring image data and usage condition information associated with the image data from an image sharing server;
Storage means for storing information on the use conditions acquired by the acquisition means;
Generating means for generating a document for a predetermined output purpose using the image data acquired by the acquiring means;
A determination unit that determines whether an output purpose of the document generated by the generation unit matches the use condition associated with the image data used for generation of the document;
With
The generation unit is an information processing apparatus that generates the document by performing a process on the image data according to a determination result of the determination unit.

The present invention provides an acquisition step of acquiring image data and usage condition information associated with the image data from an image sharing server;
A storage step of storing in the storage means information on the use conditions acquired by the acquisition step;
A generation step of generating a document for a predetermined output purpose using the image data acquired by the acquisition step;
A determination step of determining whether an output purpose of the document generated by the generation step matches the use condition associated with the image data used for generation of the document;
With
In the generating step, the document is generated by performing processing according to a determination result in the determining step on the image data.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, in the information processing apparatus which produces | generates a document using the image data acquired from the image sharing server, the document which satisfy | fills the usage condition of an image sharing server can be produced | generated easily.

1 is a diagram for explaining the configuration of an information processing apparatus according to a first embodiment. Flowchart showing the operation of the document generation program according to the first embodiment. The figure which shows the operation example of the document production | generation program of Example 1. Example of document output screen of document generation program of embodiment 1 The figure which shows an example of the table which manages the various information in Example 1. Flowchart showing the flow of document output processing in the first embodiment.

Example 1
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The configuration of the computer apparatus that constitutes the information processing apparatus of the first embodiment will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. The information processing apparatus may be realized by a single computer apparatus, or may be realized by distributing functions to a plurality of computer apparatuses as necessary. When configured by a plurality of computer devices, they are connected by a communication line such as a LAN (Local Area Network) so that they can communicate with each other.

In FIG. 1, a control unit 101 controls the entire information processing apparatus 100, and is, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit). A ROM (Read Only Memory) 102 stores programs and parameters that do not need to be changed. A RAM (Random Access Memory) 103 temporarily stores programs and data supplied from an external device or the like. The external storage device 104 is a hard disk, a memory card, or the like fixedly installed in the information processing apparatus 100, and stores a program such as an OS (Operating System). The input interface 105 is connected to an input device such as a pointing device or a keyboard for inputting data in response to a user operation. The BMU (Bit Move Unit) 106 transfers data between, for example, memories (for example, between a VRAM (Video RAM) 107 and another memory) or between the memory and each I / O device (for example, the network interface 109). Control. The VRAM 107 draws an image to be displayed on the display unit 111. The image generated in the VRAM 107 is transmitted to the display unit 111 according to a predetermined rule, whereby the display unit 111 displays the image. The network interface 109 is connected to a network line 110 such as the Internet. The system bus 112 connects the units 101 to 109 so that they can communicate with each other.

  The external storage device 104 stores the document generation application, the document generation program, or the document generation software (hereinafter referred to as “document generation program”) of the first embodiment, and stores the image file generated by the imaging device or the like. .

Hereinafter, in the first embodiment, a processing flow when the information processing apparatus 100 creates a document by starting a document generation program in response to a user operation will be described. In particular, here, a flow of processing for acquiring image data using an inter-server cooperation API of an external image sharing server, and generating and outputting a document in which an image is arranged on a page in the document using the acquired image data. Will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
In addition, the flow of processing performed according to information on the use condition of the image data acquisition source when the information processing apparatus 100 outputs the generated document will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

<Document creation process>
FIG. 2 shows a flow of processing for generating a document using image data acquired from the image sharing server. Here, a process in which the information processing apparatus 100 starts a document generation program in response to a user operation and generates a document in which image data acquired from an image sharing server is arranged on a page will be described.

  The control unit 101 of the information processing apparatus 100 operates in accordance with an instruction of a document generation program that is read from the ROM 102 and activated. The control unit 101 acquires a table (see FIG. 5) storing image and image data information generated by the document generation program and image data, and executes document generation processing.

  In step S <b> 201, the control unit 101 refers to the image data acquisition source management table shown in FIG. 5A, and reads acquisition source (image sharing server) candidates for acquiring image data. FIG. 3A shows an example of a screen that accepts an input of an instruction to select an image data acquisition source. In the example of FIG. 3A, three types of image data acquisition sources are presented. Reference numeral 301 denotes a GUI (Graphical User Interface) that can input an instruction to use the external storage device 104 of the information processing apparatus 100 as an image data acquisition source. In this case, the acquisition source of the image data is not an external image sharing server but local data. Reference numerals 302 and 303 denote GUIs for inputting an instruction to acquire image data from an external image sharing server.

  The image acquisition source management table 500 includes information such as an image acquisition source ID 501, an external image sharing server service name 502, an image acquisition API URL 503, a service availability flag 504, an image owner type 505, and usage conditions 506. Stored. The control unit 101 refers to the service name 502 and the service availability flag 504 in this table and displays an image acquisition source selection menu such as “service A” and “service B” shown in FIG. The image data acquisition source may be an image data storage folder in the external storage device 104.

Image data usage conditions 506 may be “editability”, “printability”, “publication availability”, “exhibition availability” (disclosure for commercial purposes), and all usage conditions are set in parallel. Is done.
The image sharing server from which the image data is acquired may require service use registration or user authentication when using the image data. In that case, the control unit 101 prompts the user for use registration and user authentication. When the image sharing server separately manages image data owned by the user and image data that the user does not have ownership but can view, the control unit 101 stores information in the owner type 505 of the image data.

  In step S202, the control unit 101 connects to an image sharing server corresponding to the service selected by the user from the menu, acquires thumbnails of usable image data, and displays an image list screen 310 as shown in FIG. indicate.

In step S203, the control unit 101 connects to the image sharing server that is the acquisition source, and the image data selected by the user on the screen in FIG. 3B and the usage condition information associated with the image data are displayed from the image acquisition source API. Acquire and copy the image data to the work area. The work area is, for example, the RAM 103. The control unit 101 generates an image table shown in FIG. 5B and stores image data information.
The image table 510 in FIG. 5B stores an image acquisition source ID 512, image owner type information 513, an image name 514, an image storage destination path 515, and an image acquisition date and time 516 using the image ID 511 as a key.

In step S204, the control unit 101 associates the acquired image data with the document, and arranges an image based on the image data on each page of the document.
When a new document is created, the control unit 101 generates a document table shown in FIG. 5C, sets “for editing” in the document type 524, and stores document information. Before selecting image data, a document in which image data is to be arranged may be created. The timing of document creation is not limited here.

The control unit 101 generates a page table as shown in FIG. 5D and stores association information between each page of the document and image data arranged there.
The page table 530 in FIG. 5D stores an image ID 531, a document ID 532, a page number 533 in the document, a page comment 534, and a flag 535 that controls the display of the image.
In step S205, the control unit 101 refers to the page table shown in FIG. 5D, arranges images on each page of the document, and displays a document editing screen as shown in FIG.

<Document output processing>
FIG. 6 shows a flow of processing for outputting a document after processing the image data according to the use condition of the image data of the image sharing server. The control unit 101 of the information processing apparatus 100 operates in accordance with an instruction of a program read from the ROM 102 and started. The control unit 101 refers to a table (FIG. 5) that stores information on documents and image data generated by the document generation program, and executes document output processing.

  In step S <b> 601, the control unit 101 displays a screen for inputting designation of an output purpose of the document as illustrated in FIG. 4. In the example of FIG. 4, the document output purpose includes print 410, publication 411, and exhibition 412. There may be other output purposes.

  In step S <b> 602, the control unit 101 copies a document for output for a designated output purpose in response to a user input. The control unit 101 duplicates the document table 520 and issues a new document ID 521. The control unit 101 sets one of predetermined output purposes “printing”, “publication”, and “exhibition” for the document type 524 according to the user's specification.

In step S603, the control unit 101 duplicates the page table 530 and sets a document ID issued for output.
In step S604, the control unit 101 acquires the image IDs of all the image data associated with the output document, and performs the loop processing of S605 to S608.
In step S <b> 605, the control unit 101 searches the image table 510 using the image ID 531 acquired from the page table 530 of the target document as a key, and acquires information of the image data acquisition source management table 500 from the image acquisition source ID 512.

In step S606, the control unit 101 refers to the use condition 506 of the image data acquisition source management table 500, determines whether it matches the output purpose of the target document, and the output of this image data is designated. Determine whether it is allowed for output purposes.
If it is determined in step S607 that the output purpose of the document including the target image data is permitted under the use condition of the acquisition source, the control unit 101 sets the display flag 535 of the page table 530 to “TRUE”. .

If it is determined in step S608 that the output purpose of the document including the target image data is not permitted by the use condition of the acquisition source, the control unit 101 sets the display flag 535 of the page table 530 to “FALSE”. .
The control unit 101 repeats the loop processing of steps S605 to S608 for all pages included in the document.

In step S609, the control unit 101 determines whether “FALSE” is present in the display flag 535 of the page table 530 associated with the document.
If there is no “FALSE”, the control unit 101 proceeds to step S612.
If there is “FALSE”, the control unit 101 proceeds to step S610.

  In step S610, when “FALSE” is displayed in the display flag 535 of the page table 530 associated with the document, the control unit 101 does not output for the specified output purpose under the use conditions of the image data acquisition source. Display a warning message notifying you of permission.

In step S611, if the user does not accept the warning message and an instruction to cancel document output is input, the control unit 101 proceeds to step S613.
In step S613, the control unit 101 deletes the copied document table 520 and the page table 530 associated with the document, and ends the process.
If the user accepts the warning message in step S611 and accepts outputting the document while the image is not displayed, the control unit 101 proceeds to step S612.
In step S612, the control unit 101 sets the display flag 526 of the document table 520 to TRUE.

In step S614, the control unit 101 performs document output processing. For a page including image data that is not permitted to be output by the image data acquisition source (the display flag 535 of the page associated with the document is FALSE), the control unit 101 processes the image data and outputs the document. To do.
The following image data processing can be considered.
・ Do not display images (delete image data and generate documents)
-Replace the image with a predetermined image (default image) to generate a document-Replace the image with a low-resolution image obtained for thumbnails-Overlay the watermark on the image-Delete the entire page including the image and document At the timing when the user inputs a document output instruction, it is determined whether the output purpose and the usage condition of the image data acquisition source match, and by restricting the output of the image data according to the determination result, A document that satisfies the usage conditions of the image data acquisition source can be generated.

  In the first embodiment, information on the use conditions from which image data is acquired is stored in the external storage device 104. When the usage conditions are updated, the information stored in the external storage device 104 is updated. Thus, the user can easily generate a document that satisfies the latest usage conditions without having to check whether the usage conditions of the image data acquisition source have been changed.

Although the present invention has been described in detail based on preferred embodiments thereof, the present invention is not limited to these specific embodiments, and various forms within the scope of the present invention are also included in the present invention. included. A part of the above-described embodiments may be appropriately combined. Also, when a software program that realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied from a recording medium directly to a system or apparatus having a computer that can execute the program using wired / wireless communication, and the program is executed Are also included in the present invention. Accordingly, the program code itself supplied and installed in the computer in order to implement the functional processing of the present invention by the computer also realizes the present invention. That is, the computer program itself for realizing the functional processing of the present invention is also included in the present invention. In this case, the program may be in any form as long as it has a program function, such as an object code, a program executed by an interpreter, or script data supplied to the OS. The recording medium for supplying the program may be, for example, a magnetic recording medium such as a hard disk or magnetic tape, an optical / magneto-optical storage medium, or a nonvolatile semiconductor memory. As a program supply method, a computer program that forms the present invention is stored in a server on a computer network, and a connected client computer downloads and programs the computer program.
(Other examples)
The present invention supplies a program that realizes one or more functions of the above-described embodiments to a system or apparatus via a network or a storage medium, and one or more processors in a computer of the system or apparatus read and execute the program This process can be realized. It can also be realized by a circuit (for example, ASIC) that realizes one or more functions.

101: Control unit 101, External storage device: 104

Claims (12)

Acquisition means for acquiring image data and usage condition information associated with the image data from the image sharing server;
Storage means for storing information on the use conditions acquired by the acquisition means;
Generating means for generating a document for a predetermined output purpose using the image data acquired by the acquiring means;
A determination unit that determines whether an output purpose of the document generated by the generation unit matches the use condition associated with the image data used for generation of the document;
With
The information processing apparatus, wherein the generation unit generates the document by performing a process on the image data according to a determination result by the determination unit.   When the determination unit determines that the output purpose and the use condition do not match, the generation unit deletes the image data, generates the document, and converts the image data into predetermined image data. The document is generated by replacing, the page including the image data is deleted, the document is generated, the watermark image is superimposed on the image data to generate the document, or the resolution of the image data is lowered. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the document is generated.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit stores the usage condition information in association with information of the image sharing server.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the usage condition is updated, the acquisition unit stores the updated usage condition information in the storage unit.   5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a notification unit configured to notify the user when the determination unit determines that the output purpose and the use condition do not match. .   If the determination means determines that the output purpose and the usage conditions do not match, the generation means generates the document by performing processing according to the determination result on the image data, The input of the instruction | indication from the user about not generating the said document is received, and the instruction | indication which does not generate the said document is input, The said document is not produced | generated. Information processing device.   The said acquisition means receives the input of the instruction | indication of the user who designates the image data acquired from the said image sharing server, and acquires the image data and usage condition information which the user specified. The information processing apparatus described. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of image data and usage condition information from the image sharing server,
The generating means generates the document using the plurality of image data,
The determination means determines whether a use condition and an output purpose match for each image data,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generation unit generates the document by performing processing according to the determination result for each of the image data. The acquisition means acquires a plurality of image data and usage condition information from a plurality of image sharing servers,
The generating means generates the document using the plurality of image data,
The determination means determines whether a use condition and an output purpose match for each image data,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generation unit generates the document by performing processing according to the determination result for each of the image data. An acquisition step of acquiring image data and usage condition information associated with the image data from the image sharing server;
A storage step of storing in the storage means information on the use conditions acquired by the acquisition step;
A generation step of generating a document for a predetermined output purpose using the image data acquired by the acquisition step;
A determination step of determining whether an output purpose of the document generated by the generation step matches the use condition associated with the image data used for generation of the document;
With
In the generating step, the document is generated by performing a process on the image data according to a determination result in the determining step.   The program which makes a computer perform each process of the information processing method of Claim 10.   A storage medium storing the program according to claim 11.

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