WO2003003781A1 - Appareil et systeme fournissant des images - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates mainly to an image providing apparatus and an image providing system that can be used for mail transmission from a portable terminal.
- the content is a text message, and no image is added to identify the sending place (a scenic spot or a sightseeing spot). .
- An object of the present invention is to provide an image providing apparatus and an image providing system for providing, for example, acquaintances with an image having a feature of a place without having a large number of images in a portable terminal.
- an image providing apparatus comprises: receiving means for receiving a destination of an image from a portable terminal; position information acquiring means for acquiring position information regarding a place; To information It is characterized by comprising: image specifying means for specifying a related image; and image providing means for providing the image specified by the image specifying means to the destination.
- the specification of the image is performed, for example, by reading out the image already stored, creating a new image, or processing an existing image.
- to provide an image to a destination means transmitting the image to a destination, and a state in which the destination party can obtain this image, for example, it can be stored in a specific storage medium and accessed through an internet etc. It says to make it a state.
- the position information is characterized by indicating a location of the portable terminal.
- the image related to the location of the portable terminal is identified.
- the position information acquisition unit is characterized in that the position information acquired by the global positioning system is acquired from the portable terminal.
- the position information acquisition means can easily obtain data on the position information. .
- the image specifying means has a storage unit for correlating and storing in advance a position area indicating a predetermined range and the image, and the image specified by the image specifying means is the position information. It is characterized in that it is an image corresponding to a location area including the location of. By this, it is possible to immediately identify the image corresponding to the location area.
- the image specifying unit specifies a plurality of images based on the position clear notification
- the image providing device transmits the information of the plurality of images specified by the image specifying unit to the mobile terminal.
- receiving means for receiving, from the portable terminal, a selection result in which information of one image is selected from information of the plurality of images, the image providing means provides an image corresponding to the selection result. It is characterized by Because of this, one Images can be selected, and images suited to the user's preference of the portable terminal can be provided as a destination.
- the image providing means may transmit the image to the destination. This makes it possible to reliably provide the image from the portable terminal to the destination.
- the image providing apparatus further comprises: a mail receiving unit for receiving the mail transmitted from the portable terminal, wherein the image providing unit receives the image specified by the image specifying unit by the mail receiving unit. And deliver it to the destination.
- a mail receiving unit for receiving the mail transmitted from the portable terminal, wherein the image providing unit receives the image specified by the image specifying unit by the mail receiving unit. And deliver it to the destination.
- delivery includes the case of relaying this mail to another relay device such as a mail server, and also includes the case of distributing this mail from the image providing device to the destination. is there.
- an image providing system comprising a portable terminal and an image providing apparatus, wherein the portable terminal comprises: a first transmitting means for transmitting a destination of the image; and the image providing apparatus is transmitted from the portable terminal
- the image identification means for identifying an image related to the position information based on the position information, and the image identification means.
- image providing means for providing the image specified by the above to the destination.
- the position information indicates the position of the portable terminal, and the portable terminal acquires position information from a global positioning system, 'position information acquisition means, and transmits the position information to the image providing device. And transmission means. By this, the position of the portable terminal can be easily obtained from the global positioning system. Simple description of the drawing
- FIG. 1 shows the entire configuration including the image providing system in the embodiment. Is a schematic diagram.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a sequence of the mobile phone and the image providing device in the embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the mobile phone in the embodiment.
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the image providing device in the embodiment.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a correspondence table in the embodiment.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a format of position information mail in the embodiment.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the format of the reply mail in the embodiment.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the format of the image selection mail in the embodiment.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the format of the image mail when the message is incorporated
- (b) of FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the format when the message is not incorporated.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an image mail incorporating a message
- (b) in Fig. 10 is a diagram showing an image mail not incorporating a message.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram of mail creation of a mobile phone according to the embodiment.
- FIG. 12 is a flow chart of mobile phone mail creation according to the embodiment.
- FIG. 13 is a chart of the control unit of the image providing apparatus according to the embodiment. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an entire configuration including an image providing system.
- the image providing system includes a mobile phone 1a for transmitting an e-mail, an image providing device 2 for receiving the e-mail via a base station 3 in a zone where the mobile phone 1a is located, and the communication network 4. .
- the image providing device 2 acquires location information indicating the location of the mobile phone 1 a from the received email, and stores an image specified based on the location information (hereinafter referred to simply as “image email”). To the mobile phone 1 b. For this reason, the image providing device 2 is provided in, for example, a transmission server etc., for reliably relaying the mail sent from the mobile phone 1 a.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a sequence of the mobile phone 1a and the image providing device 2 when creating an image mail.
- the sequence of the mobile phone 1a and the image providing device 2 will be briefly described with reference to FIG.
- the mobile phone 1 a transmits an e-mail 2 1 (hereinafter simply referred to as “location information e-mail”) storing the position information to the image providing device 2. .
- the image providing device 2 having received the information reads a plurality of images corresponding to the position information from the image storage unit, and creates a so-called thumbnail image obtained by reducing the images.
- the image and the thumbnail image are associated with each other by the image ID, and the image providing device 2 carries a mail 3 9 (hereinafter simply referred to as “reply mail”) storing the thumbnail image and the image ID.
- Reply mail a mail 3 9
- the mobile phone 1a accepts from the user an operation to select one thumbnail image from the plurality of received thumbnail images. Then, select: Send an email 2 2 (hereinafter simply referred to as “image selection email”) storing the image ID of the thumbnail image to the image providing device 2 again. In response to this, the image providing device 2 transmits an e-mail 40 storing the image corresponding to the image ID to the destination mobile phone 1b.
- image selection email Send an email 2 2 (hereinafter simply referred to as “image selection email”) storing the image ID of the thumbnail image to the image providing device 2 again.
- image providing device 2 transmits an e-mail 40 storing the image corresponding to the image ID to the destination mobile phone 1b.
- the image corresponding to the position is stored in advance corresponding to the position, and has some relationship with the position (location), for example, a sightseeing spot, a scenic spot, a building, a theme park, a special product, a person
- the image providing device 2 is also connected to the receiving server via the Internet, etc., so that the image mail 40 can be obtained from each personal computer 6.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the mobile phone 1a.
- the mobile phone 1 a has a call function and an e-mail function as in the prior art.
- the configuration related to the image mail 40 will be mainly described.
- the mobile phone 1a includes a wireless unit 1.1, an operation unit 12, a display unit 13, a storage unit 14, a GPS antenna unit 15, a position information mail creation unit 16, an image selection mail creation unit 17 and control. It has a section 18.
- the wireless unit 11 transmits / receives a calling signal, a calling signal, etc. in addition to sending / receiving various mails such as a reply mail 39 via an antenna 193 ⁇ 4.
- the display unit 13 includes, for example, liquid crystal display means, and displays guidance for guiding the user's operation when executing various functions, received thumbnail images, contents of mails, messages being created, and the like.
- the operation unit 12 is where the user performs various input operations related to the image mail 40 on the mobile phone 1 a.
- the operation unit 12 follows the guidance, for example, the YES key meaning "YES” input, the NO key meaning "NO” input, and the numerical value for numerical value input.
- the keys and scroll keys for scrolling the display contents of the display unit 13 up and down, and operation keys such as function keys for selecting, executing, and canceling various functions are provided.
- the input operation performed by the user is an operation for designating mail creation etc. Specifically, an operation for pressing the YES key or the NO key according to the guidance of the display unit 13. When scrolling the thumbnail image of the display unit 13. Operation of pressing the scroll key, etc.
- the storage unit 14 is composed of a RAM and the like, In addition to storing e-mails, address names, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc. are stored.
- the GPS antenna unit 15 acquires the position information of the mobile phone 1a. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, the global positioning system (GPS) using the satellite 20 can be used to obtain the mobile phone 1 Get the latitude and longitude of the position of a.
- GPS global positioning system
- the location information email creation unit 16 creates location information email 21 (see FIG. 6) for transmitting location information of the mobile phone 1 a to the image providing device 2.
- the position information obtained by the GPS antenna unit 15 is attached to the mail text in the position information mail 2 1.
- the position information mail 21 will be described later.
- the image selection mail creation unit 17 is an image selection mail 2 2 for transmitting the result of the user selecting one thumbnail image from among the plurality of thumbnail images transmitted from the image providing device 2 (see FIG. 8) Create.
- the image selection mail 22 will be described later.
- the result selected by the user is an image ID corresponding to the thumbnail image selected by the pressing operation of the operation key of the user, and is attached to the mail text.
- the image selection mail 22 stores embedded information for instructing the image providing device 2 whether or not to incorporate a message such as characters into the image of the image mail 40, which will be described later.
- control unit 18 When the control unit 18 receives an operation from the user to create the image mail 40, the control unit 18 causes the GPS antenna unit 15 to acquire the position information, and the position information mail forming unit 16 to the position information mail
- the image selection mail creation unit 17 When an instruction to create 2 1 is received from the user and an operation to select one of the thumbnail images received from the image providing device 2 is received from the user, the image selection mail creation unit 17 is activated. 2 Instruct to create.
- the control unit i 8 is configured from a microcomputer and executes the program in the built-in R O M to perform the above control, and also performs call or mail transmission / reception control in the same manner as the conventional mobile phone 1 a.
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration ′ of the image providing device 2.
- the image providing device 2 includes a position information acquisition unit 30, a candidate image identification unit 31, a thumbnail image creation unit 32, a reply mail creation unit 33, an image email creation unit 34, a transmission / reception unit 35 and a control unit 36 Is equipped.
- the position information acquisition unit 30 is for acquiring 'position information stored in the position information mail 21.
- the candidate image identification unit 31 is for identifying an image corresponding to the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit 30.
- an image storage unit 38 for storing an image is provided, and an image ID of the image is associated with a position area indicating a geographical range in a correspondence table 37.
- a position area including the position of position information is specified, and an image corresponding to the specified position area is read out from the image storage unit 38 according to the image ID of the association table 3 7.
- the image storage unit 38 is composed of an ROM, a hard disk, and the like. Further, the image specified by the candidate image specifying unit 31 is a candidate of an image used for the image mail 40, and is hereinafter also referred to as “candidate image”.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the correspondence table 37.
- the location area is adapted to correspond to the data (latitude and longitude) obtained from the global positioning system. For example, “North latitude 3 6 degrees ⁇ minutes ⁇ East longitude 1 3 8 degrees ⁇ minutes” It is a range of a substantially square with two points at the north latitude 3 6 degrees ⁇ ⁇ minutes ⁇ east longitude 1 3 8 degrees x 0 minutes ".
- the image ID is an identification number indicating an image stored in the image storage unit 38, and is indicated by, for example, a snowman. ID in the description. Also, the image ID and the image address are associated so that the image is read from the image storage unit 38 from the image ID.
- the thumbnail image creation unit 32 is for creating thumbnail images in which the plurality of candidate images identified by the candidate image identification unit 31 are reduced.
- the reply mail creation unit 33 is for creating a reply mail 3 9 (see FIG. 7), and a thumbnail image and its image ID are attached to the mail text.
- the reply mail 39 will be described later.
- the image mail creation unit 34 has created an image mail 4 0 (see FIG. 9).
- the image ID is acquired from the received image selection mail 2 2, and an image corresponding to this image ID (hereinafter, also referred to as “used image”) is read out from the image storage unit 38 and mail is sent. Store in the text.
- the image mail 4 0 will be described later.
- the image mail creation unit 34 incorporates a message into the used image, and does not incorporate a message if “0”. It is getting better. Note that, to embed a message in the image used, extend the image so that an embedded area to incorporate the message is provided outside the image area of the image used, and embed the message in this embedded area. The image incorporating this message is also called the use image. (See Fig. 10 (a)).
- the transmitter / receiver 35 sends back the reply mail 3 9 to the mobile phone 1 a which has sent the location information mail 2 1, and also receives the image selection mail 2 2 from the mobile phone 1 a or receives the image mail 4 0 Send to the side mobile phone 1b etc.
- control unit 36 When the control unit 36 receives the position information mail 21, the control unit 36 causes the position information acquisition unit 30 to acquire position information, and causes the candidate image identification unit 3 1 to specify a candidate image corresponding to the position information. Make the thumbnail image creation unit 32 create the thumbnail image of the, and instruct the reply mail creation unit 33 to create the reply mail 3 9, and 'When the image selection mail 2 2 is received, the image mail creation is made. We instruct Part 34 to create Image Mail 40.
- the control unit 36 executes various programs such as the above instruction by executing a program in the ROM which is constituted by a microcomputer and built in.
- FIG. 6 shows the data structure of the location information mail 2 1 sent from the mobile phone 1a to the image providing device 2 and an example of its contents.
- FIG. The position information mail 21 stores, as shown in the figure, a transmission source address and a transmission destination address of a header, a mail text, and position information.
- the sender address is the self, that is, the phone address of the mobile phone 1 a
- the destination address is the destination of the image mail 40, for example, the e-mail address of the mobile phone 1b in FIG.
- the position information is data acquired by the GPS antenna unit 15 and includes latitude and longitude.
- the position information is attached to the mail text, for example, in the form of MI ME (Mu 1 t. Ipurp 0 se I nternet Ma il Internet t s).
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a data structure of a reply mail 39 sent by the image providing device 2 and an example of the content thereof.
- the reply mail 39 as shown in the figure, consists of a sender address, a destination address and a mail text, and multiple (three types) of thumbnail images and their image IDs are attached to the mail text in the MI ME format. ing.
- the destination address is the e-mail address of the mobile phone 1 a that has sent the location information email 21 described above. Specifically, the sender address is obtained from the location information email 21. The sender address is the mail address of the image providing device 2.
- the thumbnail image is an image created by the thumbnail image creation unit 32, and the image ID associates the image identified by the candidate image identification unit 31 with the thumbnail image.
- ' Figure 8 shows the data structure of the image selection mail 22 sent by the mobile phone 1 a and an example of its contents ⁇ ' figure.
- the image selection mail 22 includes a sender address, a destination address and a mail text.
- the image ID and the embedded information are attached to the mail text in the format of MIME.
- the same address as the location information mail 21 described above is used as the destination address and the destination address.
- the image ID corresponds to the thumbnail image selected by the user. For example, when the selected thumbnail image is "a small image of a snowman", it becomes “snowball. ID”.
- the embedded information is for instructing whether or not the message is to be incorporated into the used image by the image providing device 2. For example, “1” is a case where the message is incorporated into the used image.
- the mail text is a message when it is embedded in the image used — The purpose of storing is, for example, “Now, it is a ski resort.” Is stored. If you do not embed the message in the image, the built-in information is
- FIG. 9 is a view showing the data structure of the image mail 40 and an example of the content thereof.
- the image mail 40 is composed of a transmission destination address, a transmission source address and a mail text, and an image is stored in the mail text. Note that (a) in Fig. 9 shows the case where the message "It is a ski resort.” Is embedded in the image, and (b) shows the case where no message is embedded.
- FIG. 10 shows an example of the image mail 40.
- the image of the image mail 40 corresponds to the position of the mobile phone 1 a that has sent the position information mail 21 and corresponds to the picture or the picture of the postcard.
- there is a ski area in the location area including the location of the mobile phone 1a and a "snowman" is used in the corresponding image.
- (a) is an image mail 40 corresponding to (a) in FIG. 9
- (b) is an image mail 40 corresponding to (b) in FIG.
- Fig. 1 1 and Fig. 12 2 are flowcharts of mail creation in the control unit 18 of the mobile phone 1 a.
- the case where the image mail 40 of (a) of FIG. 10 is created will be described as an example.
- the control unit 18 receives an input from the user on the destination to which the mail is to be sent, that is, the destination address “ ⁇ ((ef y y z. Jp) ”, when the user selects the mode for creating the mail. (Step S10; YES, S11).
- the user performs an operation of inputting from the numerical key or reading out the registered e-mail address from the storage unit 14.
- the received addressee address " ⁇ (! Ef. Y z. Jp)" and the own sender's address " ⁇ ab @ ab e. Xy. Jp" are as shown in FIG. It is stored in the mail header.
- the first message for example, "Do you want to create an image mail?" Is displayed on the display unit 13 (step S12).
- the user when the user operates the YS key, which indicates the case of creating the image mail 40, the user instructs the GPS antenna unit 15 to use the global positioning system to obtain the current position information “36 ° north latitude ⁇ minutes ⁇ Get east longitude 1 38 degrees 0 minutes "(step S 1 3; YES, S 14).
- the control unit 18 instructs the location information mail creation unit 16 to create the location information email 21. That is, the position information mail creation unit 16 attaches the position information acquired by the GPS antenna unit 15 to the mail text to create a position information mail 21 (see FIG. 6).
- the control unit 18 transmits the position information mail 21 from the wireless unit 11 to the image providing device 2 (step S15).
- a reply mail 39 storing the thumbnail image and the image ID thereof is returned from the image providing device 2 to the position information mail 2.1 described above.
- the control unit 18 receives the reply mail 39 from the wireless unit 1 1, it displays the second message, eg, “Do you want to view thumbnail images?” On the display unit 13 (step 31 6; 3, 31 7).
- step S10 If there is an operation on the NO key indicating that the thumbnail image is not viewed, the process returns to step S10. This is because the user may stop the creation of the image mail 40 or may notice an error in the destination address.
- the selection key is pressed to select the thumbnail image currently displayed, or the scroll key is pressed to display the previous thumbnail image or the next image. Guide the user. .
- step S 20 when there is an operation of the user pressing the selection key according to the above guidance (step S 20; Y E S), the control unit 18 instructs the creation of the image selection mail 17 17.
- the image selection e-mail creation unit 17 obtains the image ID' snowman. ID 'of the thumbnail image' snowy small image 'selected by the user, and attaches this image ID to the e-mail text, .
- the transmission destination address accepted in step s11 and the transmission source address are stored in the header of the mail.
- the control unit 18 displays a third message, for example, “Do you want to embed the message in the image?” On the display unit 13 (step S21). Then, when there is an operation on the Y E S key to embed a message, the message "I am now a ski resort" is accepted from the user, and the embedded information is made "1" (step S 22; Y E S, S 23, S 24). The received message is stored in the mail text by the image selection mail creation unit 17, and the embedded information is attached to the mail text.
- the image selection mail creation unit 17 changes the built-in information to "0" and attaches it to the mail text (step S25) .
- the control unit 18 transmits the image selection mail 22 with the embedded information attached thereto from the wireless unit 1 1 to the image providing device 2 via the nearest base station 3 (step S 26) o
- step S13 if there is an operation from the user if the user does not create the image mail 40 (that is, the mail is a mail without an image, hereinafter referred to as "text mail"),
- the input of the message to be used for it is accepted from the user (step S13; NO, S27).
- the received message is stored in the mail text, and transmitted from the wireless unit 11 to the image providing device 2 (step S 28).
- FIG. 13 is a flowchart of the control unit 36 in the image providing device 2. As shown in the figure, when the control unit 36 receives a mail by the transmission / reception unit 35, it determines whether or not position information is attached to the mail text (steps S101; YES, S1 02) ).
- control section 36 instructs the position information acquisition section 30 to position information “36 degrees north latitude ⁇ minutes, Make the East longitude 138 degrees 0 minutes "(Step S 1 02; YES).
- control unit 36 instructs the candidate image specifying unit 31 to specify a candidate image corresponding to the acquired position information. That is, the candidate image identification unit 31 identifies the position area including the position of the position information (step S 1 0 3) o
- step S 104 the image of the image corresponding to the identified location area "36 ° ⁇ ⁇ o'clock ⁇ 1 38 o ⁇ east longitude-36 o'clock north-1 o'clock longitude 1 38 o x x o '" ID "Snow Daruma. ID”, “ ⁇ x Park. ID” and “ ⁇ Art Museum. ID” are acquired from the correspondence table 37 of FIG. 7 (step S 104). Then, an image corresponding to the image ID is read from the image storage unit 38 to specify a candidate image.
- the control unit 36 instructs the thumbnail image creation unit 32 to create thumbnail images of the above candidate images. That is, the thumbnail image creation unit 32 reduces each of the candidate images identified by the candidate image identification unit 31-to generate thumbnail images "small images of snowmen", “small images of park x” and " ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ Create a "Museum Small Image” (Step S1 05).
- the control unit 36 instructs the reply mail creation unit 33 to create a reply mail 39. That is, the reply mail creation unit 33 attaches the created thumbnail image and its image ID to the mail text (see FIG. 7), and acquires the sender T dress of the position information mail 21. Send to "dress” and "mail address" of the image providing device 2 "xxx @. Ghi. X z. En” Are stored in the source address respectively. Then, the control unit 33 transmits the reply mail 39 from the transmission / reception unit 35 to the portable telephone 1a of the transmission source of the position information mail 21 (step S106).
- step S102 determines whether an image ID is attached to the mail text (step S102; NO, SI10) .
- the control unit 36 instructs the image mail creation unit 34 to create the image mail 40.
- the picture ' ⁇ mail creation unit 34 obtains the image ID “snowman. ID” from the image selection mail 22 (step S 1 1 1), and the image storage unit 38 receives the image “snowman” corresponding to this image ID. Read from the image ID “snowman. ID” from the image selection mail 22 (step S 1 1 1), and the image storage unit 38 receives the image “snowman” corresponding to this image ID. Read from the image selection mail 22 (step S 1 1 1), and the image storage unit 38 receives the image “snowman” corresponding to this image ID.
- the image mail creation unit 34 acquires embedded information from the image selection mail 22, and if the acquired embedded information is “1”, a message from the mail text “Now, Ski area This message is incorporated into the used image “snowman” (step 31 1 2; ⁇ £ 3, 31 1 3, S 1 14). On the other hand, if the acquired embedded information is “0”, the process proceeds to step 1 1 5 (step S 1 1 2; N).
- the image mail creation unit 34 stores the image incorporating the ⁇ message or the image not incorporated in the email body, and stores the sender address and sender address of the image selection mail 39 in the header of the mail. Yes (see Figure 9).
- the control unit 36 transmits the image mail 40 from the transmission / reception unit 35 to the transmission destination address “ ⁇ @ def. Y z. Jp” of the mobile phone lb or the like (step S115). If no image ID is added to the mail text (that is, the mail is a text mail) in step S110, the text mail is sent from the sending / receiving unit 35 to the mobile phone 1b or the like (step S110). S1 1 0; N ⁇ , S 1 20).
- step S 1 1 After (step S 1 1 5) and sending the letter mail (step S 1 2 0), the process returns to step S 1 0 1.
- an image based on position information is identified, and this image is stored in image mail 40 and provided to the transmission destination.
- An image with location features can be provided to the destination.
- the position information indicates the position of the mobile phone 1a
- the image can have the feature of a certain position of the mobile phone 1a.
- the location information indicates the location of the mobile phone 1a, but may be a location other than the location of the mobile phone 1a.
- position information different from the position of the mobile phone 1 a ′ may be input to the mobile phone 1 a by the user, and an image corresponding to the input position information may be identified by the image providing device 2. In this way, it is possible to provide an image corresponding to the location of the mobile phone 1 a and a distant location.
- the location of the mobile phone 1 a is obtained from the global positioning system, but the location information may be obtained from other than the global positioning system.
- the position of the base station 3 in the zone where the mobile phone 1a that has transmitted the location information mail 21 is as the position of the mobile phone 1a.
- the base station 3 of the zone in which the mobile phone 1 a is located adds the location information of the base station 3 to the location information mail 2 1 received from the mobile phone 1 a and acquires location information of the image providing device 2
- the means 31 may obtain the added position information.
- the mobile phone 1 a is used as the mobile terminal.
- the image mail 40 may be sent using a portable information terminal instead of the mobile phone 1a.
- the portable information terminal may be connected to a telephone line via, for example, a PC having a communication function to transmit and receive each of the mails 2 1, 2 2 and 3 9.
- the message is incorporated outside the image area so as not to overlap the image used, but the message is embedded within the image area so as to overlap the image used. But it is good.
- an image prepared by the user may be transmitted to the image providing device 2 and combined with the use image having the feature of the position.
- the place name of the position information may be incorporated into the image used.
- the message may be stored in the mail text without being embedded in the usage image, and the usage image may be sent as an attached file.
- the used image is stored in the mail text, but it may be attached to the mail text, for example, in the M I M E E format.
- the message to be embedded in the image to be used is transmitted by the image selection mail 22, it is transmitted by the position information mail 21 which is transmitted first from the mobile phone 1 a to the image providing device 2. Also good.
- a plurality of candidate images are specified, and the user selects and determines one image.
- a plurality of images may be determined.
- a plurality of images may be arranged vertically or horizontally, or may be superimposed on each other.
- the image mail 40 created by the image mail creation unit 34 of the image providing device 2 is sent to the transmission destination mobile phone 1 b. It may be sent to the mobile phone 1 a and the user may confirm the image mail 40.
- Modification 8 In the above embodiment, although a plurality of candidate images are specified and the user selects and determines one image, the number of candidate images may be one. In this case, as in the embodiment, it may be transmitted to the mobile phone 1 a so that the user can confirm the image to be used, or the image mail 40 is provided to the destination without the user's confirmation. You may.
- the position information attached to the position information mail 21 may be replaced with that image and provided to the destination.
- mail position information mail 21, image selection mail 22 and reply mail 39
- the transmission and reception may be performed according to a unique protocol negotiated between the mobile phone 1 a and the image providing device 2.
- the image providing device 2 is provided in the receiving server, but may be provided in the receiving server. Furthermore, an image providing device 2 is provided with an e-mail address, and various e-mails 21, 22 and 39 are transmitted / received between the mobile phone 1a and the image providing device 2, and image e-mail 40 is provided. It may be made to transmit from the device 2 to the destination mobile phone 1 b.
- the e-mail address of the destination mobile phone 1 b may be stored in at least one of the position information mail 2 1 and the image determination mail 2 2 transmitted from the mobile phone 1 a.
- this storage method it may be attached to the mail text in the M I M E E format.
- the image providing device 2 may be a WWW server.
- thumbnail images are generated by reducing them as information of candidate images corresponding to position information and transmitted to the mobile phone 1a.
- candidate images for example, candidates The name of the image may be sent to the mobile phone 1a, or the candidate image itself may be sent.
- the thumbnail image is created by reducing the image identified by the candidate image identification unit 31. However, it may be created in advance corresponding to the image stored in the image storage unit 38.
- the mobile phone la displays the thumbnail image received from the image providing device 2 on the display unit 13 by one image
- a plurality of thumbnail images are displayed on one screen of the display unit 13.
- the user may select desired thumbnail images from these by displaying them all at once.
- the image providing device 2 reads out the image associated with the position information from the image storage unit 38, but may create an image associated with the position information.
- An example of this is that the position itself is stylized based on the position information. Specifically, there is an image showing the latitude and longitude of the position.
- the image providing device 2 does not need to include the image storage unit 38, and the mobile phone la instructs the image providing device 2 whether to incorporate the position information and the message into the image.
- the embedded information and the message are incorporated, an e-mail storing the message may be sent to the image providing device 2.
- An image providing apparatus and an image providing system according to the present invention can be used to provide an image having a feature of a position to a destination.
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