JPH10162017A - Multimedia information collection management system and information collection device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a collection management system for multimedia data, that can be applied to all fields, where multimedia data are to be collected/ managed, in real time. SOLUTION: The device is constituted of an information open device 11 connected to an internet 10, an information management device 12, an information update device 13 and an information collection device 14. The respective devices are independent computers and they are connected by communication lines. The information collection device 14 has a microphone 16 and a camera 17, which are controlled by the controller 15, and it collects multimedia information and transmits information to the information management device 12 through a public line by using a portable telephone set and a public telephone set. The information management device 12 automatically registers received multimedia information to a data base 18, sends data to the information open device 11 and registers it in the content of an open data base 19.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a multimedia data collection management system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Today, services for providing multimedia information to users using the Internet or the like are becoming popular. For example, the user can easily obtain the latest character information and image information by using an Internet browser. These data are such that the manager who manages the homepage obtains the information as soon as possible and, by performing the process of posting on the homepage, anyone can see the latest information from the Internet.

[0003] For example, a person who manages a homepage also obtains information such as an image as an image, and also takes it into a computer by a scanner or the like and posts it on the homepage. Alternatively, it is also possible to transmit data such as an image independently acquired by the user to the host computer as an e-mail and post it on a homepage.

[0004] However, in order to provide such information, there is no other choice but to manually collect information, digitize the information, and register it in a computer. That is, there is no method for automatically collecting and managing information such as obtained images and sounds. For photos,
After taking a picture, it has to be taken in by a scanner or taken by a digital camera and then manually taken in image data. A similar operation is required for voice. Therefore,
When obtaining data from a remote location, the information provider needs time to process the information so that it can be obtained via the Internet. There was no way to see.

[0005] Further, when information managed in a database or the like is disclosed on the Internet or the like, it is necessary to manually select and transfer data items to be disclosed.

[0006]

Therefore, conventionally, in order to publish information on the Internet or the like, it is necessary to process the obtained data into a state that can be disclosed.
That is, much time was required for the data registration work.

Further, as described above, since much time is required for data registration work, there is a problem that information cannot be used in real time as information is generated. Furthermore, when information managed in a database or the like is made public, a lot of man-hours are required for preparing a device for publication and data.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a real-time multimedia data collection and management system applicable to all fields in which multimedia data collection and management is desired.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a system for collecting multimedia information and publishing the information so that the collected information can be referred to via a network,
An information management means for managing the multimedia information received in real time through the public line, and an information management means for managing the multimedia information; and a public information connected to the information management means and having the same data as the database A database, and when the database is updated, the same update is performed on the public database in real time, and when the public database is accessed, the access is performed based on the contents of the public database. It is characterized by comprising an information publishing means for publishing data, and an information collecting means for collecting multimedia information and transmitting the multimedia information to the information management means in real time via a public line.

[0010] The information collecting apparatus includes a camera for acquiring image data, a microphone for acquiring voice data, input means for inputting character data and registrant data, and image data acquired by each of the above means. , Audio data,
A mail transmitting unit that transmits the character data and the registrant data to the information management apparatus as electronic mail via a public line in real time;

According to the present invention as described above, the information collection device is, for example, a portable terminal, which allows the user to easily acquire image data and audio data anywhere, and to use this information collection device in the public. By connecting to the line, the acquired data is instantaneously transmitted to the information management means as an e-mail. Therefore, the latest information is always registered in real time in the database of the information management means, and it is possible to provide the latest information in real time to remote people who refer to the data in the database via the network. I can do it.

In addition, by not providing the database of the information management means to a person at a remote place directly through the network, but providing the data through the information disclosure means, the data which is not desired to be disclosed is not disclosed. This allows for personal privacy and data security considerations.

[0013]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of the present invention. The system of the present invention includes an information disclosure device 1
1, an information management device 12, an information update device 13, and an information collection device 14, which are connected to the Internet 10 via an information disclosure device 11. Each of these devices is a computer, which fulfills the function of sending and receiving e-mail and publishing information to the Internet 10. Especially,
The information disclosure device 11 also serves as an Internet server. In addition, the information disclosure device 11, the information management device 12,
The information updating device 13 is composed of independent computers connected by a communication line, and can communicate with each other via the communication line. It has a display, a keyboard, and a main body as in a general computer. The main body consists of a CPU and RAM or R
An OM, a disk device, a communication device, and the like are provided. In particular, a microphone 16 and a camera 17 are connected to the information collecting device 14 via a control device 15.

Generally, a plurality of information collecting devices 14 exist,
Each is provided with a microphone 16 and a camera 17.
Of course, there may be an information collecting device 14 provided with only one of the microphone 16 and the camera 17. Further, the information collecting device 14 is a portable terminal so that a person who collects information can easily carry it, and is, for example, an electronic notebook. The information collecting device 14 is the microphone 1
6 and the camera 17 capture voice and images. The information collection device 14 is configured to be connectable to a mobile phone or a public telephone, and transmits the fetched voice or image as electronic mail to the information management device 12 through a public line. However, it is only necessary to use a network that can transmit data, and it is not necessary to use a public line.

A database 18 is connected to the information management device 12, and registers and updates data transmitted from the information collection device 14 in the database 18.

The information disclosure device 11 is connected to the Internet 10
It is provided for disclosing the contents of the database of the information management device 12 above. That is, since it is not known what kind of party is accessed from the Internet 10, the public database 19 holds the same data as the contents of the database 18 of the information management device 12, and only the contents that may be made public among them are stored. Is made public for access from the Internet 10.

The information update device 13 is a terminal connected to the information management device 12 via an intranet or the like. For example, in the case of a system in which the information management device 12 and the information disclosure device 11 are provided in one office, the information update device 13 is limited. A terminal that only employees can use. The information updating device 13 can access the contents of the database 18 of the information management device 12 in the same manner as the terminal accessing via the Internet 10, and can directly access the database 18.
Or can be updated.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the process performed by the information disclosure device 11. In step S1, it is determined whether to create a data table for publishing information on the Internet. If the data table is not created, the process proceeds to step S3. When creating a data table, a public data table is set (step S2). The public data table is for registering data to be made public among the contents of the public database 19, and is dynamically generated every time a search request is received.
The display of the search result of the public database 19 is performed based on the public data table. Next, the information management device 1
2 determines whether there is a request to update the public database 19 (step S3). If there is a request to update, the public database 19 is updated (step S3).
4), the process moves to step S5. If there is no request to update the public database 19, the process proceeds directly to step S5. The update request of the public database 19 from the information management device 12 is generated when data is updated in the database 18.

In step S5, it is determined whether or not a data search is requested. If there is a search request, the search conditions are read, and the entries in the public data table are narrowed down in consideration of the search conditions (step S6). ). A public data table is created from the public database 19, and when the data to be published is narrowed down in consideration of the search conditions, the data is edited so that it can be displayed on the Internet (step S7). For example, in order to be able to view search results on an Internet browser, data is edited and provided in HTML format. When the data has been edited, the information edited in the HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) format is transmitted to the accessing terminal via the Internet (step S8).

If there is no request for a database search, or if the data in the public database 19 has been edited and the information has been sent, the process returns to step S1 to wait for the next input. The information disclosure device 11 repeats the above-described operations from step S1 to step S7, and waits for a data disclosure request via the Internet. When the disclosure request comes, the information disclosure device 11 performs the processing described above. Publish the data to the publishing request destination.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process performed by the information management device 12. The information management device 12 performs step S
At 10, it is determined whether or not an e-mail including data has arrived from the information collection device 14. If the e-mail is received, the data included in the e-mail is extracted and registered in the database 18 (step S10). S11). If the mail has not been received or the mail data has been registered in the database 18, the process proceeds to step S12, where the database 18
It is determined whether or not the search request has come from the information updating device 11, and if not, the process proceeds to step S15.

When a request for searching the database 18 has been received from the information updating device 11, the search condition is read and the database 18 is searched (step S13). Then, the search result is obtained, the search result is edited into an HTML format or the like so that the search result can be viewed on an Internet browser or the like, and transmitted to the information updating device 13 (step S1).
4).

It is determined whether a request for updating data in the database 18 has been received from the information updating device 13 (step S15). If there is no update request, step S1 is performed.
Then, the process proceeds to 7. If there is an update request, the update data is read and the data in the database 18 is updated (step S16). Next, it is determined whether or not a request for setting data disclosure has been received from the operator (step S1).
7) If no request has been received, the process proceeds to step S19. If the request has been received, the operator sets data items to be disclosed (step S18). The data of the data item to be disclosed is transmitted to the information disclosure device 11,
Since the data is registered in the public database 19 and published on the Internet, the operator of the system determines whether or not the data can be disclosed and inputs the data.

Next, the information management apparatus 12 determines whether or not the database 18 has been updated (step S).
19) If the database 18 has been updated,
Update data is transmitted to the information disclosure device 11 (step S
20). When the database has not been updated or when the update data has been transmitted to the information disclosure device 11, the process returns to step S10 to wait for an event such as reception of an e-mail.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing of the information updating device 13. The information updating device 13 determines whether or not a request for searching the database 18 has been input by the user of the information updating device 13 (step S21).
If the request has been input, the search conditions are read and sent to the information management device 12 (step S22).
The search result is displayed on the display of the information updating device 13 (step S23).

In step S24, it is determined whether there is a request for updating the database.
The update data is read and transmitted to the information management device 12 (step S25). After this, step S2
Returning to step 1, the processing is repeated according to the flow shown in the figure, and in steps S21 and S24, the system waits for the input of each request.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the processing of the information collection device 14. In step S30, registrant data is taken in to create a mail. Here, the registrant data refers to a user who has the information collection device 14 which is a portable terminal for collecting information. The registrant data includes a name, an address, a date of birth, a registration date, and the like. The registrant data is used to specify the sender of the information using these, create an e-mail, and transmit the e-mail to the information management device 12. is there.

In step S31, it is determined whether or not data to be transmitted as an electronic mail includes text data (step S31). If the data is included, the text data is added to the mail (step S32). In step S33, it is determined whether there is image data in the data to be transmitted as the mail. If the image data is included, the image data is attached to the mail (step S3).
4). Further, in step S35, it is determined whether or not the data to be transmitted includes audio data (step S3).
5) If it is included, attach the voice data to the mail (step S36).

With the above processing, an e-mail is created,
For example, a mail is transmitted to the information management device 12 via a mobile phone or a public telephone using a public line (step S37).

FIG. 6 is a schematic system configuration diagram of the information collection device 14. The information collection device 14 is a portable personal computer, a PDA (Personal Data Assistants) or an electronic organizer, and has a CPU, ROM, R
It has a configuration and functions similar to those of a general personal computer, such as an AM, a communication device, and a bus connecting these devices. As described above, the information collecting device 14 is provided with the microphone 16 for collecting the audio data 23, the camera 17 for collecting the image data 22, and the like, so that these data can be collected. Has become. Further, a keyboard for inputting the sentence data 24 and the registrant data 25 and a display for confirming the input data are provided.

Alternatively, the display may be constituted by a touch panel, and input may be made by touching the screen with a stick. In this case, portability is further increased because a keyboard is not required. In addition, when performing input using a touch panel, it is also possible to configure so that character data is input by recognizing handwritten characters.

The person who carries the information collecting device 14 collects multimedia data by acquiring image data and audio data with the attached camera 17 and microphone 16 and inputting characters, and collects the collected data. Information collection device 14
Take in. Further, the user inputs a name, an address, a date of birth, a registration date and the like, and causes the mail transmitting unit 20 to create a mail.
The person carrying the information collection device 14 connects the information collection device 14 to a public line using a mobile phone or a public telephone, and sends the created mail as an e-mail from the mail transmission unit 20 to the information management device 12 via the public line. Send to

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a schematic system configuration of the information management device 12. The information management device 12 is also a single independent computer, comprising a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, a communication device, a bus connecting these devices, and the like, and having a general computer configuration.

The information management device 12 receives the mail data 21 sent from the information collection device 14 through the public line by the mail receiving unit 30. Received mail data 2
1 is decomposed into image data 22, audio data 23, text data 24, and registrant data 25 by a mail receiving unit 30.

The database registration unit 31 converts each data decomposed by the mail reception unit 30 into a format that can be registered in the database 18 and registers the data in the database 18. For example, since the data amount of the audio data 23 and the image data 22 becomes extremely large, there is a possibility that the data cannot be registered well in the database 18 for registering character data and the like. In such a case, another database (not shown) for storing the actual data of the image data 22 and the audio data 23 is provided separately, and stored in the separately provided database. In the database 18 in which character data and the like are registered, an address and the like where the image data 22 and the audio data 23 are stored are registered.
When reference is made to the reference numeral 8, it is also possible to configure such that desired image data 22 and audio data 23 are automatically extracted by referring to the image / audio data database provided separately while referring to these addresses. .

When each data is registered in the database 18, the same key (a data item for uniquely determining a record:
For example, if a record having registrant data or the like already exists, the record is updated.

FIG. 8 is a main flowchart of a database registration process by electronic mail of the information management apparatus 12.
First, in step S40, it is determined whether an electronic mail (E-Mail) has arrived. If no e-mail has been received, it is determined whether there is a request to end the process (step S43). If there is a request, the process is terminated to stop receiving the e-mail. Become. Such a case is performed at the time of maintenance or the like. Normally, when the system is operating, no end request is issued, so the flow returns to step S40 to wait for an e-mail.

If an e-mail arrives at step S40, an e-mail conversion process is performed at step S41. This is performed by the mail receiving unit 30 shown in FIG. 7, and is an operation for disassembling the electronic mail into image data, audio data, text data, and registrant data.

Next, the decomposed data is received, and the database registration unit 31 performs a process of registering the data in the database 18 (step S42). In particular,
An SQL statement describing the processing for the database 18 is created, and each data described in the transmitted e-mail is registered in the database 18.

FIG. 9 is a detailed flowchart of the electronic mail conversion process (the process of step S41 in the flowchart of FIG. 8) performed by the mail receiving unit 30 of the information management device 12. The e-mail sent from the information collection device 14 is MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions).
Use the one formatted by the standard. This makes it possible to determine whether or not the electronic mail contains image data or audio data by a predetermined method.

As a result of analyzing the electronic mail based on the MIME standard, it is determined whether or not image data is included (step S44). If image data is not included, the process proceeds to step S46. Step S44
If it is determined that image data is included,
In step S45, the image data is converted. When conversion is performed, the conversion is performed according to an appropriate data conversion standard. For example, in this case, the image data is converted based on the BASE64 standard to create an image data file, an image data file name is created, and added to the image data file.

Next, whether or not voice data is included is analyzed based on the MIME standard. If there is no audio data, the process moves to step S48. If it is determined in step S46 that there is audio data,
In step S47, data conversion is performed based on the BASE64 standard to create an audio data file,
An audio data file name is created and added to this file.

After the image data file and the audio data file have been created in this way, the M
The text and the registrant data are analyzed based on the IME standard, and the text data and the registrant data are created as separate files.

FIG. 10 shows the database registration unit 31 of FIG.
9 is a flowchart for explaining the database registration process (the process of step S42 in the flowchart of FIG. 8).
Before registering the data sent by e-mail in the database 18, of the various decomposed data, the SQL (Structure Query Language) for registering the registrant's attribute data and the message from the registrant data and the sentence data.
uage) statement is created (step S50). This SQL sentence is a standard database language dedicated to relational database processing and used when processing a relational database. Then, an SQL statement for registering the registrant's attribute and message in the database 18 is created in accordance with a predetermined format.

In step S 51, it is determined whether or not there is image data in the data sent from the mail receiving unit 30. If there is image data, the above SQL is used to write the image data into the database 18. An SQL sentence in which an image data file name is added to the sentence is created (step S52).

Next, it is determined whether or not voice data is included (step S53). If voice data is included, a voice data file name is further added (S53).
A QL sentence is created (step S54).

With the above processing, the image data and the audio data can be registered in the database 18 together with the registrant's attribute data and the message. If neither image data nor audio data is included, the SQ registers only the registrant's attribute data and message in the database 18.
An L sentence is created, and only the attribute data and message of the registrant are registered in the database 18. If only one of the image data and the audio data is present, an SQL sentence for registering only one of the image data and the audio data in the database 18 together with the attribute data and the message of the registrant is created. 1
8 is registered.

FIGS. 11 and 12 show specific examples of electronic mail based on the MIME standard. An e-mail conforming to this standard is composed of an e-mail header section, a text data section, attached file information, an image data section, and an audio data section.

From the text data part, "HINAN"
Since the type of the mail is described after the portion where "" is written, the type of the mail can be determined. FIG.
In the case of, it can be seen that it is “Mail”.
This indicates that it is a normal mail.

The attached file information indicates that a file having a file name extension of “JPG” and a file of “CZA” are attached. Here, the file with the extension “JPG” is an image file, and the file with the extension “CZA” is previously promised to be an audio file. Can be read.

After the attached file information, an image data section including image data and an audio data section including audio data are connected. At the head of each of the image data section and the audio data section, an image data header section and an audio data header section are provided. Each header describes what rules are used to encode the image data and the audio data, respectively.

Referring to FIGS. 11 and 12, "Content-Transfer-Enc" is included in the image data header section and the audio data header section.
oding: base64 ", and by reading this portion, the system can know that the image data and the audio data are encoded under the BASE64 standard. Therefore, it can be understood that the image data and the audio data are converted and decoded by the mail receiving unit 30 based on the BASE64 standard.

The portions other than the header portion of the image data portion and the audio data portion are to be decoded based on BASE64. In FIGS. 11 and 12, a coded sequence obtained by coding the image and the voice is continuous. .

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the relationship between the respective units in the reference and update processing of the database 18 between the information management device 12 and the information update device 13. Information management device 12
The information update device 13 is connected to a network such as an intranet, and the information update device 13 can refer to and update the contents of the database 18 of the information management device 12.

When the information update device 13 refers to the database 18 of the information management device 12, first, a search condition 47 is input from the search condition input section 44. The search condition 47 input from the search condition input unit 44 is transmitted to the DB (database) search unit 40 of the information management device 12 via a communication line such as an intranet. The search condition 47 can specify a registrant's name, gender, age, registration date and time, and the like.

The DB search unit 40 searches the database 18 based on the search condition 47, and the search result editing unit 41 acquires the search result. Further, the search result editing unit 41 refers to the template HTML data 43 for displaying the search results, synthesizes the search results of the database into an HTML format, and processes the data into a format that can be referenced on the Internet. The processed search result 48 is sent to the information updating device 13 via the communication line, and is displayed on the display (not shown) of the information updating device 13 by the search result display unit 45.

The template HTML data 43 is composed of a fixed display section and a search result insertion section. The search result editing section 41 inserts the search result into the search result insertion section of the template HTML data 43 and transmits it as a search result 48. Will be done.

When updating the database 18 of the information management apparatus 12, the update data 49 is input from the update data input section 46 of the information update apparatus 13. The database update unit 42 takes in the update data 49 sent via a network such as an intranet communication line, converts this into a format that can be registered in the database, and registers it in the database, or when there is a record with the same key. Update. The conversion to a format that can be registered in the database 18 is performed, for example, assuming that the update data 49 has been sent in an e-mail format.
As described with reference to 10, decoding image data and audio data, creating an SQL sentence for registering them in the database 18, and processing the database 18.

The screen displayed on the information updating device 13 is, for example, a screen of an Internet browser. When a search is performed, when a search is selected, a window for inputting search conditions is displayed. The display of the search result display unit 45 and the display of the update data input unit 46 are also dedicated windows opened on the Internet browser.

FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining the setting of the disclosure items in the information management device 12 and the relationship between the components in the information disclosure device 11. Database 18 of information management device 12
Is provided with a column of disclosure flags for each data item, and a table (view) for disclosure is set. In the public data item setting unit 54 of the information management device 12, information of public or private is defined in the column of the public flag. As a result, some data in the database 18 can be made public and some data can be kept private. Then, the information disclosure device 11 processes only the data that can be disclosed, so that information that the user does not want to show to people accessing via the Internet can be prevented from being disclosed.

When the contents of the database 18 are updated from the public data item setting unit 54 or the information updating device 13 in FIG. 13, the updated data extracting unit 53 reads the updated data and updates the data to the information publishing device 11. The data 52 is transmitted via a network. Information disclosure device 11
The update data registration unit 51 of the received update data 5
2 is read and registered in the public database 19.

Here, the contents of the database 18 of the information management device 12 and the contents of the public database 19 of the information disclosure device 11 are the same. However, when the information publishing unit 50 receives a search request for information via the Internet, the publishing flag of the publishing database 19 is set, and the publishing database 19 is searched only for records that can be made public. The search result is edited into an HTML format via the information disclosure unit 50 and transmitted to the Internet.

Information disclosure device 11 via the Internet
The terminal that has requested the information search returns, interprets the HTML format data sent from the information disclosure unit 50 by an Internet browser or the like mounted on the terminal itself, and displays the data content on the screen. ,
The desired information can be obtained.

However, as described above, a person who requests information retrieval via the Internet cannot directly process the database 18 of the information management apparatus 12, but outputs only information that may be disclosed. Only the data from the published database 19 can be viewed.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a table that is a record of the database 18 and an example of a table (view) created based on the record of the public database 19.

FIG. 7A is an example of the substance of the data stored in the database 18. For example, as shown in FIG. 3A, when a database such as an employee list is registered as a database, the name, age, telephone number, and the like are stored as information, and each row has Flag public or private. In the case of FIG. 7A, the characters “public” and “non-public” are registered in the public flag. However, if “1” is set as the public flag, “public” is set, It is also possible to make an agreement such that if it is "0", it is made "public".

Records having the same contents as those stored in the database 18 are also stored in the public database 19. When a reference request for the database 18 is received via the Internet 10, the public database 19 is accessed.
Create a view based on the records of

FIG. 9B is a diagram showing an example of a table (view) of the public database 19. When an information search request is sent from the Internet 10 to the information disclosure device 11, first, the information disclosure device 11 creates a view. this is,
Items that may be made public are extracted from all the record contents of the database 18 (the contents are the same as those of the public database 19), and are once created in the form of a table.

In FIG. 9B, the item of the telephone number is omitted. This is, for example, the telephone number in the employee list
This is because if viewed by a third party, the privacy of employees may be violated, so that it is not disclosed on the Internet. The view is obtained by extracting only items that may be made public on the Internet from the data in the public database 19, and is in a state where the search condition sent from the information search requester is not applied.

Next, when a view is created, a search condition sent using this view is applied to apply a condition such as “age 30 or less”, and data registered in the view is deleted. Further, the table obtained as a result of applying all the search conditions and the search conditions is converted into the HTML format as the search result, and is sent to the Internet.

The person who has requested the search of the database 18
The search results can be viewed by displaying the HTML format signal of the search results sent in this way on the user's own Internet browser.

[0072]

According to the present invention, for example, multimedia information is automatically registered directly in a database of an information management apparatus by using a public line from an information collecting apparatus equipped with a camera or a microphone. Registration of data in the database can be made more efficient.

Further, since the collected multimedia information is promptly registered in the database in real time via the public line, the multimedia data can be easily operated in real time.

Further, it is possible to quickly and easily collect and manage and release multimedia information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a process performed by the information disclosure device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process performed by the information management device.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating processing of the information updating device.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of the information collection device.

FIG. 6 is a schematic system configuration diagram of an information collection device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a schematic system configuration of an information management device.

FIG. 8 is a main flowchart of a database registration process by electronic mail of the information management device.

FIG. 9 is a specific flowchart of an e-mail conversion process performed by a mail receiving unit of the information management device.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a database registration process of a database registration unit in FIG. 7;

FIG. 11 is a specific example (part 1) of an electronic mail based on the MIME standard.

FIG. 12 is a specific example (part 2) of an electronic mail based on the MIME standard.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a relation between each unit in a database reference and update process between the information management device and the information update device.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating the setting of a disclosure item in the information management device and the relationship between each unit in the information disclosure device.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a table that is a record of a database and an example of a table (view) created based on a record of a public database.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 Internet 11 Information disclosure device 12 Information management device 13 Information update device 14 Information collection device 15 Control device 16 Microphone 17 Camera 18 Database 19 Public database 20 Mail transmission unit 21 Mail data 22 Image data 23 Voice data 24 Text data 25 Registrant data Reference Signs List 30 mail reception unit 31 database registration unit 40 DB (database) search unit 41 search result editing unit 42 database update unit 43 template HTML data 44 search condition input unit 45 search result display unit 46 update data input unit 47 search condition 48 search result 49 Update data 50 Information disclosure unit 51 Update data registration unit 52 Update data 53 Update data retrieval unit 54 Public data item setting unit

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[Claims] 1. A system for collecting multimedia information and publishing the information so that the collected information can be referred to via a network, wherein the multimedia information received via a public line is stored in real time. An information management unit having a database and managing the multimedia information; and a public database connected to the information management unit and having the same data as the database, the same update when the database is updated Is performed on the public database in real time, and when there is access to the public database, information disclosure means for publishing the accessed data based on the contents of the public database; Sends multimedia information to the information management means in real time via a public line Multimedia information collection management system characterized by comprising an information collection means for. 2. An information updating means which is connected to the information management means via a network and searches, registers and updates information in the database via the network. 2. The multimedia information collection and management system according to 1. 3. The multimedia information collecting and managing system according to claim 1, wherein said information managing means selects information stored in said database into information to be made public and information to be kept private. system. 4. The information managing means and the information publishing means edit the collected multimedia information into a format that can be referred to on the Internet in real time in response to receiving a search request for the multimedia information. The multimedia information collection and management system according to claim 1, wherein: 5. An information collection device for sending collected information to an information management device having a database and registering the information in a database, a camera for acquiring image data, a microphone for acquiring audio data, character data and registration. Input means for inputting user data, and e-mail for transmitting the image data, audio data, character data and registrant data obtained by each of the above means to the information management apparatus as e-mail in real time via a public line An information collection device, comprising: a transmission unit.