Patent ID: 7801537
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image provision device for providing an image to a person different from a user of a mobile terminal, comprising: a storage unit that stores a plurality of images relating to two or more of a plurality of localities and each locality corresponding to a piece of image information that is available for transmission to the mobile terminal; a mapping table that corresponds each of the plurality of images with a range of latitude and longitude coordinates, each range of latitude and longitude coordinates corresponding to a different locality; a position-information acquiring unit that acquires position information indicating a range of latitude and longitude coordinates for a locality of the mobile terminal; an image specifying unit that specifies all images corresponding to the range of latitude and longitude coordinates for the locality indicated by the position information, from among the plurality of images stored in the storage unit; an information transmitting unit that transmits to the mobile terminal pieces of image information corresponding to the specified images, the transmitted pieces of image information to be used as candidate images from which the user selects an image to be provided to the person different from the user of the mobile terminal; a reception unit that receives a piece of image information selected, by the user of the mobile terminal, among the transmitted one or more pieces of image information; and a providing unit that provides the person different from the user of the mobile terminal an image corresponding to the piece of image information received by the reception unit, by making the corresponding image accessible to the person different from the user of the mobile terminal.