JP6529118B2 - Image recording apparatus and information providing system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus and an information providing system.

  The following information processing systems are known. In this information processing system, by automatically posting the visit history of the user to the store through the SNS, the store can obtain the advertisement effect even without aggressive advertisement (for example, Patent Document 1) ).

JP, 2013-8144, A

  As in the case of conventional information processing systems, advertisement utilizing SNS is widely performed. For example, in a store that handles products, a product may be advertised to a user who uses the SNS by posting an image of the product sold in the store to the SNS. At this time, if you post the image to the SNS and set a link to the product sales site for that image, you can follow the link to purchase the product to the consumer who visited the product sales site It can prompt you. However, when it is difficult for a store to post an image of a product, it is difficult to set a link to a sales site for all images, so a link to a sales site is set in an image posted to SNS. Images and other images are mixed. In view of such a situation, it is desirable to have a mechanism in which stores can post images posted to SNS and set links to sales sites in each image after the fact, but conventionally, no such mechanism has been used. It was not considered.

An image recording apparatus according to the present invention records post image acquisition means for acquiring from an SNS server a post image posted using a social networking service, and the post image acquired by the post image acquisition means in a storage medium. A link to a post image is received by accepting input of link information to a web page on which information about an object is posted from the post of the post image, with respect to the post image recorded by the post image recording means and the post image recording means. and specifying link information receiving means for receiving designation information, the link association information recording and post image by specifying link information receiving unit has received the designation of the link information, the link association information associating the specified link information in a storage medium And recording means.
An information providing system according to the present invention is an information providing system in which an image recording apparatus for recording an image and a user terminal possessed by a user who browses the image recorded in the image recording apparatus are connected via a communication line. The image recording apparatus is a posting image acquisition unit that acquires a posting image posted using a social networking service from the SNS server, and a posting image that records the posting image acquired by the posting image acquisition unit in a storage medium and recording means, with respect to the recording have been posted by the post image recording means, by accepting the input of the link information to the WEB page of information about the subject was published from author of the post image, the link information for the posted image The link information specification receiving unit that receives a specification, and the link information specification receiving unit And the link association information recording means for recording in the storage medium link association information associating the specified link information with the posted image, and the user terminal receives the posted image for receiving the posted image from the image recording apparatus And post image display means for displaying a list of post images received by the post image receiving means on the display device.

  According to the present invention, an image posted using a social networking service (SNS) is acquired, and link information to a web page on which information about an object is posted is associated with the posted image and recorded. Devices and systems can be provided.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of an information providing system 10; FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of an image recording apparatus 100. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a user terminal 200. FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of an image manager terminal 300. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of post image acquisition processing executed by the image recording apparatus 100. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of link information association processing executed by the image recording apparatus 100. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of image browsing processing performed by the user terminal 200. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the flow of image management processing executed by the image manager terminal 300.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information providing system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The information providing system 10 includes an image recording apparatus 100, a user terminal 200, and an image manager terminal 300. In the present embodiment, the image recording apparatus 100 and the user terminal 200, and the image recording apparatus 100 and the image manager terminal 300 are respectively connected via a communication line such as the Internet or a mobile telephone network. Note that FIG. 1 shows an example in which the information providing system 10 includes one image recording device 100, one user terminal 200, and one image manager terminal 300, but the configuration of the information providing system 10 is the same. It is not limited to.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which a server apparatus is used as the image recording apparatus 100 in the present embodiment. The image recording apparatus 100 includes an operation member 101, a connection interface 102, a control device 103, and a storage medium 104.

  The operation member 101 includes various devices operated by the operator of the image recording apparatus 100, such as a keyboard and a mouse.

  The connection interface 102 is an interface for connecting the image recording apparatus 100 to a communication line such as the Internet. For example, a wired LAN module for wired connection to the Internet or a wireless LAN module for wireless connection to the Internet Etc. are used. In the present embodiment, the image recording apparatus 100 communicates with an external server, the user terminal 200, and the image manager terminal 300 via the connection interface 102.

  The control device 103 includes a CPU, a memory, and other peripheral circuits, and controls the entire image recording apparatus 100. The memory constituting the control device 103 is, for example, a volatile memory such as an SDRAM. This memory is used as a work memory for the CPU to develop a program at the time of program execution, and a buffer memory for temporarily recording data. For example, data read via the connection interface 102 is temporarily recorded in the buffer memory.

  The storage medium 104 is a storage medium for recording various data stored in the image recording apparatus 100, data of a program to be executed by the control device 103, and the like. For example, the HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or SSD (Solid State) Drive etc. is used. The data of the program recorded in the storage medium 104 is provided by being recorded in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM or a DVD-ROM or provided via a network, and stores the data of the program acquired by the operator By installing on the medium 104, the control device 103 can execute the program.

  The user terminal 200 is a terminal owned by a user who uses the information providing system 10. As the user terminal 200, for example, an information terminal such as a smartphone, a tablet terminal, or a personal computer is used.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment when a smartphone is used as user terminal 200 in the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, the smart phone operates as the user terminal 200 in the present embodiment by communicating with the image recording apparatus 100 in the smartphone and installing user terminal software for executing the processing described below. . It is assumed that the program for user terminal software is provided by being published on a server connected via the Internet, obtained by downloading by the user, and installed in advance in the user terminal 200. Alternatively, the program for user terminal software may be provided by being recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM or a DVD-ROM.

  The user terminal 200 includes a touch panel 201, a communication module 202, and a control device 203.

  The touch panel 201 is an electronic component in which a display device such as a liquid crystal panel and a position input device such as a touch pad are combined, and is an input device capable of operating the device by pressing a display on the screen. For example, the user of the user terminal 200 can operate the user terminal 200 by touching or sliding display items such as buttons and menus displayed on the liquid crystal panel using a finger or a touch pen. The touch panel 201 detects an operation such as touch or slide by the user, and outputs the detection signal to the control device 203.

  The communication module 202 uses a module for connecting to the Internet via a LAN or a cellular phone communication network wirelessly or by wire. The user terminal 200 communicates with the image recording apparatus 100 via the communication module 202.

  The control device 203 is configured of a CPU, a memory, and other peripheral circuits, and controls the entire user terminal 200. The memory constituting the control device 203 includes, for example, a volatile memory such as an SDRAM or a non-volatile memory such as a flash memory. The volatile memory is used as a work memory for the CPU to deploy a program at the time of program execution, and a buffer memory for temporarily recording data. Further, firmware data for operating the user terminal 200 and program data of software for operating various applications are recorded in the non-volatile memory. In the present embodiment, the program for user terminal software described above is recorded in the non-volatile memory.

  As described later, the image manager terminal 300 directs the image posted to the social networking service (hereinafter, referred to as “SNS”) to the user possessing the user terminal 200 via the information providing system 10. It is a terminal possessed by the image manager who manages to make it public. In the present embodiment, assuming that a poster who has posted an image on the SNS manages a posted image posted by the user, the image manager becomes the poster himself. As the image manager terminal 300, for example, an information terminal such as a smartphone, a tablet terminal, or a personal computer is used.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment in the case where a smartphone is used as image manager terminal 300 in the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, the smartphone operates as the image manager terminal 300 in the present embodiment by communicating with the image recording apparatus 100 in the smartphone and installing image management software for executing the processing described below. Do. The program of the image management software is provided by being published on a server connected via the Internet, and a poster who is an image manager obtains the program by downloading and installs it in the image manager terminal 300 in advance. It shall be done. Alternatively, the program of the image management software may be provided by being recorded in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM or a DVD-ROM.

  The image manager terminal 300 includes a touch panel 301, a communication module 302, and a control device 303.

  The touch panel 301 is an electronic component in which a display device such as a liquid crystal panel and a position input device such as a touch pad are combined, and is an input device capable of operating a device by pressing a display on a screen. For example, a poster who operates the image manager terminal 300 operates the image manager terminal 300 by touching or sliding display items such as buttons and menus displayed on the liquid crystal panel using a finger or a touch pen. be able to. The touch panel 301 detects an operation such as touch or slide by the poster, and outputs the detection signal to the control device 303.

  The communication module 302 uses a module for connecting to the Internet via a LAN or a cellular phone communication network wirelessly or by wire. The image manager terminal 300 communicates with the image recording apparatus 100 via the communication module 302.

  The control device 303 includes a CPU, a memory, and other peripheral circuits, and controls the entire image manager terminal 300. The memory constituting the control device 303 includes, for example, a volatile memory such as an SDRAM or a non-volatile memory such as a flash memory. The volatile memory is used as a work memory for the CPU to deploy a program at the time of program execution, and a buffer memory for temporarily recording data. Further, firmware for operating the image manager terminal 300 and program data of software for operating various applications are recorded in the non-volatile memory. In the present embodiment, the program of the image management software described above is recorded in the non-volatile memory.

  In information providing system 10 according to the present embodiment, control device 103 of image recording apparatus 100 acquires an image posted using a social networking service (hereinafter referred to as “SNS”) via the Internet. Then, the data is recorded on the storage medium 104.

  In SNS, a member user who has registered as a member in order to use the service can use the SNS by accessing the WEB site providing the SNS or activating software for using the SNS. . A member user of the SNS can post a message or an image on the SNS, and can view a message or an image posted by another member user.

  For example, a manager or employee of a company or store selling a product posts an image on a product handled by the company or the store to an SNS, and advertises the product to other member users including general consumers. There is a case. In addition, the owner or employee of the company or store providing the service posts an image on the service provided by the company or the company's own store on the SNS, and advertises the service to other member users including general consumers. May do. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the image recording apparatus 100 collects post images posted to SNS, and performs an open to the user terminal 200 for images relating to products and services posted by the poster. The following process is described.

  In the image recording apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, image acquisition software for acquiring a post image posted on the SNS in the storage medium 104 is recorded. The control apparatus 103 activates the image acquisition software at a predetermined timing, and acquires a post image from the SNS server on the Internet via the connection interface 102. In the present embodiment, for example, an API (application programming interface) for acquiring a posted image from the SNS server is prepared, and the API is implemented in the image acquisition software.

  In addition, the information of the SNS server accessed in order to acquire a contribution image shall be previously defined by the software for image acquisition or API side. Further, the number of SNSs from which the image recording apparatus 100 acquires a post image is not limited, and post images can also be acquired from a plurality of SNSs. When posting images are acquired from a plurality of SNSs, APIs conforming to the specifications of the respective SNSs are prepared, and each is implemented in image acquisition software. Further, the timing at which the control device 103 acquires the posted image from the SNS server is set in advance, and for example, the SNS server is accessed at predetermined time intervals set in advance, such as every one minute or five minutes later. , Post image should be acquired. The acquisition timing of the post image shown here is an example, and is not limited to this timing.

  In the present embodiment, the API included in the image acquisition software can acquire post images from the SNS server, and can also acquire information for specifying a poster of each post image. The information for specifying the contributor of the posted image differs depending on the SNS, but, for example, account information using an e-mail address for uniquely specifying a member user, a member ID, a user name or the like corresponds to this.

  The control device 103 records the post image acquired from the SNS server in the storage medium 104. At this time, the control device 103 associates the file name of the posted image acquired from the SNS server with the account information for specifying the contributor of the posted image, and records the associated information in the storage medium 104.

  In the present embodiment, the post who posted the image to the SNS operates the image manager terminal 300 to display a post image posted by the user among the posted images recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100. Can be displayed on the touch panel 301 and managed.

  As a method of displaying only the posted image posted by the user on the image administrator terminal 300, there are, for example, the following methods. The poster activates the image management software on the image manager terminal 300, and on the account management screen of the image management software, the account information for identifying the self registered in the SNS to which the image was posted, For example, an e-mail address, a member ID, a user name and the like are input. The control device 303 records the input account information in the memory.

  When instructed to display an image on the image management software, the control device 303 reads out account information recorded in the memory, and from among the posted images recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100, Only the post image of the file name associated with the account information is acquired and displayed on the touch panel 301. If the contributor posts images to multiple SNSs, if multiple account information is registered on the account management screen of the image management software, post images posted by the user on multiple SNSs will be displayed. A list can be displayed on the touch panel 301.

  Among the posted images displayed in a list on the touch panel 301, the poster selects a posted image in which the subject relating to a product or service handled by the company or the own store is taken. Link information to published web pages can be associated.

  For example, in the case of a posted image obtained by photographing a product as a subject, the WEB page on which information about the subject is posted includes a WEB page of a shopping site on which the product shown as the subject is sold and a product shown as the subject The web page etc. where the product information of was posted is assumed. As one example, the URL of the sales page selling the fashion item can be associated as link information for a post image in which a fashion item such as clothes, a bag, and an accessory is photographed as a subject. Alternatively, the URL of the sale page selling items included in the category of interior, general goods, and accessories can be associated as link information with a posted image in which items such as interiors, general items, and accessories are photographed as subjects. .

  Further, in the case of a post image obtained by photographing a subject related to a service, a WEB page of a reservation site for reserving the service, a WEB page on which information on the service is posted, and the like are assumed. For example, if a poster providing a service such as an esthetic salon or a hairdresser posts an image that allows the consumer to understand the content of the service, the posted image may be The URL of the reservation page for making a reservation such as a hairdresser can be associated as link information. Alternatively, if a poster providing a service at a restaurant or hotel posts an image that allows consumers to understand the content of the service, the restaurant or hotel is reserved for the posted image. The URL of the reservation page can be associated as link information.

  First, processing for associating link information with a post image will be described. The control device 303 displays an image management screen for the designated post image on the touch panel 301 when the user designates the post image and instructs to associate the link information with the post image. The image management screen is provided with an input field for entering information, for example, a URL, indicating the access destination of the WEB page on which the information on the subject appearing in the posted image is posted together with the selected posted image. The poster can input the URL of the web page in which the information on the subject is posted in this input field. When the input of the URL is confirmed by the poster, the control device 303 requests the image recording device 100 to save the URL input on the image management screen.

  In the image recording apparatus 100, when the control apparatus 103 receives a request for storage of a URL from the image manager terminal 300, the control apparatus 103 receives an input of the URL designated on the image management screen of the image manager terminal 300, Link association information in which the URL is associated with the file name of the posted image for which the URL is designated is recorded in the storage medium 104. The contributor may be able to input related information such as a product name, a product description, a product price, or a service name, a service content description, a service price, etc. on the image management screen described above. In such a case, the control device 103 may include the related information input on the image management screen of the image manager terminal 300 in the link association information and record it. Further, the control device 103 associates the post image with the URL, and issues a management ID for uniquely identifying the association information, and also includes the management ID in the link association information to associate the post image with the URL. It is also good.

  A user desiring to view a posted image using the information providing system 10 can activate the above-described user terminal software on the user terminal 200 and perform the operation described below.

  When instructed to execute the user terminal software, the control device 203 accesses the image recording apparatus 100 to receive the posted images recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100, and lists them on the touch panel 201. indicate. Thereby, the user of the user terminal 200 can browse the post image collected by the image recording apparatus 100 from the SNS.

  The user can display the posting images displayed as a list on the touch panel 201 in a limited manner to a specific poster. For example, the control device 203 receives specification of arbitrary account information from the user on the screen displaying a list of post images, and receives a post image associated with the specified account information from the image recording apparatus 100. , And displayed on the touch panel 201.

  The user can also instruct the post image displayed on the touch panel 201 to narrow down and display an image in which a subject accessible to the WEB page in which the information is posted can be taken. For example, on the screen displaying a list of post images, a screen for displaying all post images obtained from the image recording apparatus 100 and a screen for narrowing down and displaying the post images on which objects accessible to the web page appear are displayed in tabs. The user is instructed to narrow down the posted image by touching the tab for switching to the screen to be narrowed down to the post image in which the subject accessible to the WEB page is taken and the screen is switched. it can.

  The control device 203 instructs the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100 to link link information when switching to a screen for narrowing down and displaying a post image in which a subject accessible to the web page is displayed is displayed by the user. Only the post images for which are recorded are listed on the screen. For example, the control device 203 refers to the link association information recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100, and the file of the post image in which the link information to the WEB page on which the information about the subject is posted is associated. Specify a name, and switch to a screen that displays only the image of the specified file name. As a result, the user can browse the image while narrowing down to the posted image in which the subject whose information can be obtained through the Internet is shown.

  If the user desires to browse the web page on which information about the subject is included among the subjects shown in the post image that is narrowed down and displayed, the user may touch the post image on which the subject is shown. It can be touched and selected on 201. When the control device 203 detects that any post image is selected by the user, the control unit 203 refers to the link association information recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100 to post information on the subject. The link information to the web page, for example, the URL is specified. Specifically, the control device 203 determines whether link association information including the file name of the post image selected by the user is recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100. As a result, if the link association information is recorded, the URL of the WEB page associated with the file name of the post image as the link information is specified in the link association information.

  The control device 203 accesses the web page in which the information on the subject is posted based on the specified URL, and displays the web page on which the information on the subject is posted on the touch panel 201. As a result, the user can find a favorite subject from the posted images posted by the poster, and can easily access the WEB page on which the information on the subject is posted.

  For example, if the information providing system 10 according to the present embodiment is used, the user can view, on the user terminal 200, a posted image posted by a store selling favorite fashion items. And if a favorite fashion item is found in it, the sales page of the fashion item can be easily accessed. Specifically, the user may perform the operation on the user terminal 200 as follows.

  First, a person in charge of a store who sells fashion items becomes a poster, and posts an image of a fashion item sold by the store as an object on an SNS. The contributor operates the image manager terminal 300 and stores the link destination information in which the posted image is associated with the URL of the sale page of the product shown in the posted image by the method described above. It is recorded on the medium 104.

  The user executes the above-mentioned software for user terminal on the user terminal 200, and when the posting images are displayed as a list on the touch panel 201, as described above, a function to display limited to posting images posted by a specific poster. Is displayed on the touch panel 201 only for posted images whose stores are stores that sell favorite fashion items. Furthermore, the user instructs the posted image displayed on the touch panel 201 to narrow down the images in which the products accessible to the sales page are shown, and the touch panel 201 lists only the products for which the sales page is present. Display. By this, the user can display and browse only the posted image in which the commodity which can be purchased is shown through the Internet.

  If the user has a product desired to be purchased among the products in the displayed posted image, the user can touch and select the posted image on which the product is shown on the touch panel 201, and link association information , The URL of the sales page is specified, and the sales page of the product is displayed on the touch panel 201. By such an operation, the user can find a favorite product from the posted images posted by the poster and easily access the sale page of the product.

  The user can perform the purchase procedure of the product on the displayed sales page. Note that the function for accepting an order based on the purchase procedure from the user and the function for settling the item price are the functions provided by the shopping site on the sales page of the access destination, so the explanation here is Is omitted.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of post image acquisition processing executed by the image recording apparatus 100 in the present embodiment. The processing illustrated in FIG. 5 is executed by the control device 103 as a program that is activated when a preset posting image acquisition timing is reached.

  In step S10, as described above, the control device 103 activates the image acquisition software to access the SNS server, and acquires the posted image posted via the SNS. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S20.

  In step S20, the control device 103 records the post image acquired in step S10 in the storage medium 104. Further, the control device 103 associates the file name of the posted image acquired from the SNS server with the account information for specifying the contributor of the posted image, and records the associated information in the storage medium 104. Thereafter, the process ends.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of link information associating processing performed by the image recording apparatus 100 in the present embodiment. As described above, the processing illustrated in FIG. 6 is executed by the control device 103 as a program that is activated when a URL storage request is received from the image manager terminal 300.

  In step S110, the control device 103 receives the URL designated on the image management screen of the image manager terminal 300, accepts the input of the URL, and receives the received URL and the file name of the posted image for which the URL is designated. And link association information associated with each other in the storage medium 104. Thereafter, the process ends.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the flow of the image browsing process performed by the user terminal 200 in the present embodiment. The processing illustrated in FIG. 7 is executed by the control device 203 as a program that is activated when execution of the user terminal software described above is instructed.

  In step S 210, the control device 203 accesses the image recording device 100, receives the posted images recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording device 100, and displays a list on the touch panel 201. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S220.

  In step S220, the control device 203 determines whether or not designation of any account information has been received from the user on the screen displaying a list of post images. When negative determination is carried out by step 220, it progresses to step S240 mentioned later. On the other hand, when an affirmation judging is carried out at Step S220, it progresses to Step S230.

  In step S230, the control device 203 extracts and displays only the posted image associated with the designated account information on the image recording apparatus 100. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S240.

  In step S240, the control device 203 determines whether or not the user has instructed switching to a screen for narrowing down and displaying a post image in which a subject accessible to the web page is shown. When negative determination is carried out by step S240, it progresses to step S260 mentioned later. If, on the other hand, an affirmative determination is made in step S240, the process proceeds to step S250.

  In step S250, the control device 203 refers to the link association information recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100, and the posted image is associated with the link information to the WEB page on which the information related to the subject is posted. Specify the file name and switch to the screen that displays only the image of the specified file name. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S260.

  In step S260, the control device 203 determines whether any post image has been selected by the user. When negative determination is carried out by step S260, it progresses to step S280 mentioned later. If, on the other hand, an affirmative determination is made in step S260, the process proceeds to step S270.

  In step S270, the control device 203 refers to the link association information recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100, identifies the URL of the WEB page on which the information on the subject is posted, and accesses the identified URL. Then, the WEB page is displayed on the touch panel 201. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S280.

  In step S280, the control device 203 determines whether or not the end of the user terminal software has been instructed by the user. When negative determination is carried out by step S280, it returns to step S220. On the other hand, when an affirmative determination is made in step S280, the process ends.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a flow of image management processing executed by the image manager terminal 300 in the present embodiment. The processing illustrated in FIG. 8 is executed by the control device 303 as a program that is activated when execution of the above-described image management software is instructed. In addition, in the process shown in FIG. 8, the account information of SNS mentioned above shall be beforehand recorded on the memory with which the control apparatus 303 is equipped.

  In step S310, the control device 303 reads the account information recorded in the memory, and from among the posted images recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording device 100, the file name with which the account information is associated. Only the post image is acquired and displayed on the touch panel 301. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S320.

  In step S320, the control device 303 determines whether any one of the post images is designated by the poster and the association of the link information with the post image is instructed. When negative determination is carried out by step S320, it progresses to step S350 mentioned later. If, on the other hand, an affirmative determination is made in step S320, the process proceeds to step S330.

  In step S330, as described above, the control device 303 displays the image management screen for the designated post image on the touch panel 301, and indicates the link destination of the WEB page on which the information on the subject of the post image is posted. It accepts input of information, for example, the URL of a web page. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S340.

  In step S340, the control device 303 receives the input of the URL from the poster, and when the input content is determined, the control device 303 transmits the URL input on the image management screen to the image recording device 100. Require preservation. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S350.

  In step S350, the control device 303 determines whether the poster has instructed the end of the image management software. When negative determination is carried out by step S350, it returns to step S320. On the other hand, when an affirmative determination is made in step S350, the process ends.

According to the present embodiment described above, the following effects can be obtained.
(1) The control device 103 of the image recording apparatus 100 acquires the posted image posted using the social networking service, and records the acquired posted image in the storage medium 104. Then, the control device 103 accepts the specification of the link information to the WEB page on which the information related to the subject is posted in the recorded post image, and the post image for which the specification of the link information has been accepted, and the specified link information. Link association information associated with each other is recorded in the storage medium 104. In this way, it is possible to associate and record link information to a web page on which information about the subject is posted, with respect to the post image posted on the SNS.

(2) The image acquisition software executed by the image recording apparatus 100 has an API for acquiring a posted image from the SNS server, and the control device 103 acquires the posted image using the API. I did it. By this, it is not necessary to develop a program for acquiring a contribution image from SNS independently, and it is possible to operate the system at a low development cost.

(3) In the user terminal 200, the control device 203 receives post images from the image recording apparatus 100 and displays the received post images on the touch panel 201 as a list. Thereby, the user can browse the image posted on the SNS on the user terminal 200 using the information providing system 10.

(4) The control device 103 of the image recording device 100 associates and records the post image and information for specifying the post of the post image, for example, account information of SNS, and the control device 203 of the user terminal 200 When a poster is designated by the above, the posting image associated with the designated poster's account information is extracted, and the posting image is received from the image recording apparatus 100. Thus, the user can view the posted image limited to a specific poster.

(5) In the user terminal 200, the control device 203 causes the user to display only the posted image including the subject accessible to the web page in which the information is posted, that is, the posted image associated with the link information. In the case where the instruction is given, only the posted images whose link association information is recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100 are listed and displayed on the screen. As a result, the user can browse the image while narrowing down to the posted image on which the subject whose information can be acquired can be obtained through the Internet.

(6) In the user terminal 200, when any one post image is selected from the post images displayed on the touch panel 201, the control device 203 refers to the link association information and selects the post. The link information associated with the image is specified, and based on the specified link information, the web page on which the information on the subject of the selected post image is posted is accessed, and the web page is displayed on the touch panel 201 . As a result, the user can browse the web page by simply selecting the posted image for the subject that the poster wants to browse the web page as a result of browsing the image posted on the SNS. .

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In addition, the information provision system of embodiment mentioned above can also be deform | transformed as follows.
(1) In the above-described embodiment, the user of the user terminal 200 displays the posting images displayed in a list on the touch panel 201 with limitation to a specific poster. At this time, the control device 203 accepts specification of arbitrary account information from the user on the screen displaying a list of post images, and only the post image associated with the designated account information on the image recording apparatus 100 is displayed. The example of extracting and displaying has been described. However, the user may be able to register account information of favorite contributors in advance. In this case, the control device 203 records the favorite account information registered by the user in the memory. Then, when instructed to execute the user terminal software, the control device 203 reads out the account information of the favorite from the memory, and selects one of the posted images recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording device 100 as a favorite. Only the post image of the file name to which the account information is associated may be received and displayed on the touch panel 201. As a result, the user can view the posted image limited to the favorite account information registered in advance.

(2) In the embodiment described above, the control device 303 is specified on the touch panel 301 when any post image is specified by the user and association of link information with the post image is instructed. The example has been described in which the image management screen for the posted image is displayed, and information indicating the link destination of the web page on which the information on the subject appearing in the posted image is posted on the image management screen. At this time, when a plurality of subjects appear in the post image, the poster may be able to input link destination information for each subject. Thus, when a plurality of subjects are included in one post image and there is a WEB page for each subject, link information can be set for each subject.

  In this case, the poster can associate and record the individual image of each subject contained therein with respect to one post image, associate the link information for each subject in association with each individual image. Do. In this case, image association information in which the post image and the individual image are associated may be recorded in the storage medium 104, and link association information in which the individual image and the link information are associated may be recorded. Then, when a post image is selected by the user, the control device 203 of the user terminal 200 may perform the following process.

  When a post image is selected by the user, the control device 203 determines whether or not image association information for the selected post image is recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording device 100, and is recorded. When it is determined that there is an individual image, the individual image is acquired from the image recording apparatus 100, and the post image and one or more individual images are displayed on the touch panel 201. Then, when any individual image is selected by the user, the link association information recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording apparatus 100 is referred to, and the link information associated with the individual image is specified. The web page may be displayed on the touch panel 201. By this, for example, in the post image which photographed the subject coordinated using a plurality of fashion items, it is possible to prepare an individual image for each of a plurality of fashion items included in the post image and associate the URL of the sales page. it can.

(3) In the embodiment described above, the control device 203 instructs the image recording device to switch to a screen for narrowing down and displaying the post image in which the subject accessible to the web page is photographed by the user. With reference to the link association information recorded in the storage medium 104 of 100, the file name of the post image associated with the link information to the WEB page on which the information about the subject is posted is specified, and the specified file name The example which switches to the screen which displayed only the image was explained. In addition, when the control device 203 detects that any post image is selected by the user, the control unit 203 refers to the link association information recorded in the storage medium 104 of the image recording device 100 to obtain information on the subject. An example of specifying the link information to the web page on which the was posted was described. However, for the post image whose link association information is recorded in the storage medium 104, the control device 203 receives the link association information at the timing of receiving the post image from the image recording apparatus 100 and records it in the memory. When referring to the link association information, the link association information recorded in the memory may be referred to.

(4) In the embodiment described above, the image acquisition software is implemented with an API for acquiring a posted image from the SNS server, and the control apparatus 103 acquires the posted image using the API. I made it. However, instead of the API, a dedicated program developed for acquiring a posted image from the SNS server may be used.

(5) In the embodiment described above, as illustrated in FIG. 1, the information providing system 10 has been described as an example configured of the image recording apparatus 100, the user terminal 200, and the image manager terminal 300. However, it is conceivable that the user who operates the user terminal 200 and the poster who operates the image manager terminal 300 are the same person. Therefore, the user terminal 200 and the image manager terminal 300 may be the same terminal. In this case, the user terminal software and the image management software may be installed in one terminal. Alternatively, software provided with both the function provided by the user terminal software and the function provided by the image management software may be installed in one terminal.

(6) In the above-described embodiment, the link information included in the link association information has been described as an example of the URL of the web page on which the information on the subject is posted. However, the link information is not limited to the URL as long as the user terminal 200 can use the information to access the WEB page in which the information on the subject is posted. For example, when the image recording apparatus 100 also has a WEB server function, a WEB page may be recorded in the storage medium 104, and a path to the WEB page may be used as link information.

  The present invention is not limited to the configuration in the above-described embodiment as long as the characteristic functions of the present invention are not impaired. Further, the above-described embodiment and a plurality of modifications may be combined.

10 information providing system 100 image recording apparatus 101 operation member 102 connection interface 103 control device 104 storage medium 200 user terminal 201 touch panel 202 communication module 203 control device 300 image manager terminal 301 touch panel 302 communication module 303 control device

Claims (9)

Post image acquisition means for acquiring post images posted using a social networking service from the SNS server ,
Post image recording means for recording the post image acquired by the post image acquisition means on a storage medium;
The link information for the post image is received by accepting the input of link information from the post of the post image to the web page on which the information on the subject is posted with respect to the post image recorded by the post image recording unit. and link information designation receiving means for receiving the designation of,
Providing a link association information recording unit for recording, on the storage medium, link association information in which the post image whose specification of the link information has been received by the link information specification receiving unit is associated with the specified link information; Image recording device characterized by In the image recording apparatus according to claim 1,
The link information specification receiving unit receives specification of the link information for each of a plurality of subjects included in the post image.
The image recording apparatus, wherein the link association information recording unit records the link association information in which the link information is associated with each subject included in the post image. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1 or 2
The image recording apparatus, wherein the post image acquisition means acquires the post image using an application programming interface for acquiring the post image posted using the social networking service. An information providing system in which an image recording apparatus for recording an image and a user terminal possessed by a user who browses the image recorded in the image recording apparatus are connected via a communication line.
The image recording device is
Post image acquisition means for acquiring post images posted using a social networking service from the SNS server ,
Post image recording means for recording the post image acquired by the post image acquisition means on a storage medium;
For the post image recorded by the post image recording means, the input of the link information to the web page on which the information on the subject is posted from the post of the post image is received , thereby Link information specification receiving means for receiving specification;
The post information having received the specification of the link information by the link information specification receiving means, and the link association information recording means for recording, on the storage medium, link association information in which the specified link information is associated with each other.
The user terminal is
Post image receiving means for receiving the post image from the image recording device;
An information providing system comprising: post image display means for displaying a list of the post images received by the post image receiving means on a display device. In the information providing system according to claim 4,
The post image recording means associates and records the post image and information for specifying a post of the post image,
The post image receiving means extracts the post image associated with the information for specifying the designated post when the post is designated by the user, and receives the post image from the image recording apparatus. An information providing system characterized by In the information providing system according to claim 4 or 5,
The user terminal is
The link association information is recorded in the storage medium when the user is instructed to display only the post image associated with the link information among the post images displayed by the post image display means. An information providing system, further comprising display image switching means for displaying a list of the posted images only on the display device. In the information providing system according to any one of claims 4 to 6,
The user terminal is
When any one of the posted images is selected from the list of the posted images displayed on the display device, the link association information is referenced to be associated with the selected posted image. Link information specifying means for specifying the link information
WEB page display means for accessing the WEB page on which information on the subject of the selected post image is posted based on the link information identified by the link information identification means, and displaying the WEB page on the display device And the information providing system further comprising In the information providing system according to any one of claims 4 to 7,
The link information specification receiving unit receives specification of the link information for each of a plurality of subjects included in the post image.
The information providing system, wherein the link association information recording unit records the link association information in which the link information is associated with each subject included in the post image. The information provision system according to any one of claims 4 to 8.
The information providing system, wherein the posted image acquisition means acquires the posted image using an application programming interface for acquiring the posted image posted using the social networking service.

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