Patent ID: 7831659
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
1. A data providing system comprising: an image acquiring device that acquires image data representing a predetermined image; an area extracting device that extracts a storage destination specifying area which is an image area contained in the image represented by the image data and which indicates information for specifying a storage destination of the image data, based on the image data acquired by the image acquiring device; a storage destination specifying device that specifies the storage destination of the image data acquired by the image acquiring device, based on the storage destination specifying area extracted by the area extracting device; a data storing device that stores the image data acquired by the image acquiring device in the storage destination specified by the storage destination specifying device; and a data providing device that, upon receipt of a request for the image data stored in the specified storage destination by the data storing device from a client terminal capable of communicating data via a network, provides to the client terminal the image data respectively stored in the specified storage destination, wherein, for each image data acquired by the image acquiring device, a storage destination specifying area is extracted by the area extracting device, a storage destination is specified by a storage destination specifying device, and the image data is stored at the storage destination by the data storing device, the area extracting device, in case that the image represented by the image data acquired by the image acquiring device contains an image area having predetermined characteristics as characteristics to be possessed by the storage destination specifying area, extracts the image area as the storage destination specifying area.