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Patent US6961540 - Information processing system and camera system - Google Patents
An information processing (camera) system comprises a radio communication terminal (medium) and an information appliance (camera) communicable the radio communication terminal (medium) within a predetermined distance. The information appliance (camera) comprises (an image pickup part for obtaining image...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6961540?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6961540 - Information processing system and camera system
Publication number US6961540 B1
Application number US 09/604,352
Also published as US7379095, US7733377, US20040174435, US20080068465
Publication number 09604352, 604352, US 6961540 B1, US 6961540B1, US-B1-6961540, US6961540 B1, US6961540B1
Inventors Takashi Kondoh
Patent Citations (19), Referenced by (33), Classifications (74), Legal Events (5)
Information processing system and camera system
US 6961540 B1
An information processing (camera) system comprises a radio communication terminal (medium) and an information appliance (camera) communicable the radio communication terminal (medium) within a predetermined distance. The information appliance (camera) comprises (an image pickup part for obtaining image data by photographing a subject,) a storing part for storing information peculiar to a user of the information appliance (camera), a radio communication part (medium reading part) (transmitting a predetermined radio signal and) reading information from the radio communication terminal (medium), and an authorization part for authorizing the information appliance (camera) user by collating information from the radio communication terminal read at the radio communication part (medium reading part) with information peculiar to the information appliance (camera) user stored in the storing part (and a record part for recording the information related to the camera user authorized at the authorization part while relating the information related to the camera user authorized at the authorization part to the image data photographed at the image pickup part). The radio communication terminal (medium) comprises a storing part for storing predetermined information and a transmission part for receiving a radio signal generated at the information appliance (the predetermined radio signal generated at a radio communication medium reading part of the camera) and transmitting the predetermined signal stored in the storing part as a radio signal.
a radio communication terminal; and
an information appliance communicable with said radio communication terminal within a predetermined distance,
said information appliance comprising:
a first storing part for storing information specific to a user of said information appliance, said information specific to the user including information specific to the information appliance;
a radio communication part for reading information from said radio communication terminal;
an authorization part for authorizing said user of the information appliance by collating information from said radio communication terminal read by said radio communication part with the information specific to the user of said information appliance including the information specific to the information appliance stored in the first storing part; and
a user interface part as an input part by which the user requires that the authorization processing is performed; and
a second storing part for storing predetermined information specific to the user; and
a transmission part for receiving a radio signal transmitted from said information appliance and transmitting, as a radio signal, said predetermined information specific to the user stored in the second storing part.
2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said radio communication terminal comprises a portable telephone, the information specific to the user comprises a telephone number, and the telephone number differs for each user.
3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said radio communication terminal employs an operation part of a portable telephone to transmit a code number in addition to the information specific to the user.
4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said information appliance further comprises a control part for controlling the radio communication terminal reading part so that the directivity of an electromagnetic wave transmitted from the radio communication terminal reading part is made high.
5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the information appliance comprises a personal computer.
6. The information processing system according to claim 5, wherein the information appliance comprises a stationary type personal computer.
7. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the information appliance comprises one of a household electric appliance and a consumer electronics product.
8. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the radio communication terminal comprises a non-contact IC card.
9. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the radio communication terminal comprises a wearable non-contact type radio communication terminal.
10. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the radio communication terminal comprises a non-contact tag.
11. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the information appliance further comprises
a control part for supplying power to the radio communication part when the authorization processing is required through the user interface part, and the control part stops supplying power to the radio communication part after a predetermined time period.
12. The information processing system according to claim 11, wherein the information appliance comprises a personal computer.
13. The information processing system according to claim 12, wherein the information appliance comprises a stationary type personal computer.
14. The information processing system according to claim 11, wherein the information appliance comprises one of a household electric appliance and a consumer electronics product.
15. The information processing system according to claim 11, wherein the radio communication terminal comprises a non-contact IC card.
16. The information processing system according to claim 11, wherein the radio communication terminal comprises a wearable non-contact type radio communication terminal.
17. The information processing system according to claim 16, wherein the radio communication terminal comprises a non-contact tag.
an information appliance communicable with the radio communication terminal within a predetermined distance,
a first storing part for storing predetermined information, which comprises user-specific information for an appliance user;
a transmission part for receiving a radio signal transmitted from the information appliance and transmitting, as a radio signal, the predetermined information stored in the first storing part; and
a second storing part for storing information specific to a user of the information appliance;
a radio communication part for reading information from the radio communication terminal;
an authorization part for collating information from the radio communication terminal read by the radio communication part with the information specific to the user of the information appliance stored in the second storing part, and for allowing the appliance user to use the information appliance if the information from the radio communication terminal coincides with the information specific to the user of the information appliance; and
a controller for controlling the authorization part, such that registration and de-registration of an appliance user as a user of the information appliance by the authorization part can be performed only when a predetermined appliance user is authorized by the authorization part.
19. The information processing system according to claim 18, wherein the radio communication terminal comprises a non-contact IC card.
20. The information processing system according to claim 19, further comprising a non-contact IC card for the predetermined appliance user as a system manager.
21. The information processing system according to claim 18, wherein the radio communication terminal comprises a portable telephone.
This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from the prior Japanese Patent Application No. 11-181599, filed Jun. 28, 1999, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
That is, in this example, the camera user's own information (authorization information: 19dle9awkf, z2tnfower;3, Yzev8&fd2, $ekfg9sde3) is stored corresponding to the users IDs (1, 2, 3, . . . n).
That is, before authorization processing, the camera user's own information (authorization information: Sasdf834kf, z2tnfower;3, Yzev8&fd2, $ekfg9sde3) is stored corresponding to the users IDs (1, 2, 3, . . . n) in the user information storing part 14 of the camera 301 side as one example of a camera user's own information list, and the camera user's own authorization information of the user ID=1, Sasdf834kf, is recorded in the radio communication medium 303 that the user carries.
According to the first and the second concrete examples of the camera system according to the second embodiment of the present invention described above, provided is a camera system characterized in that the camera 301 comprises the image memory part 4 as a record part for creating and recording at the header information creating part 3 information showing that the camera user is unclear on a header part of image data photographed at the image pickup part 1 of the camera 301 when authorization of the camera user by the authorization processing-part 15 is failed.
By the camera system like the above, even when authorization of the camera user is failed, photo-graphing itself of a picture or the like by means of the image pickup part 1 is possible.
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U.S. Classification 455/41.2, 705/44, 455/558, 455/557, 455/73, 379/110.01, 705/18, 705/41
International Classification H04N1/32, H04N5/225, G06F1/00, H04N1/00, H04N5/232, G03B15/00, G06F13/00, G06F21/20, G06F15/00, H04M1/725, G06K17/00, H04L12/56, H04W12/06, H04W8/18
Cooperative Classification H04N21/42684, H04N5/77, H04W8/18, H04N1/00347, H04N21/4182, H04N21/441, H04W12/06, H04N1/32138, H04N1/4406, H04N1/4433, G06Q20/206, H04N1/00204, H04N1/32101, H04N21/43637, H04N2201/3225, H04N2201/3205, H04N2201/0055, H04N2201/0084, H04N2201/0053, H04N21/4143, H04N1/00342, H04N1/32128, H04N2201/3274, H04N1/00127, G06Q20/40, H04N1/4426, H04N1/00307, H04M1/7253, H04N21/4223, H04N2201/3246, H04N1/00281, H04N1/00137, G06Q20/105
European Classification G06Q20/40, H04N1/00C2C, H04N21/4223, H04N5/77, H04N1/44A, H04N21/4363W, H04N21/441, H04N21/4143, H04N21/426N, G06Q20/206, H04N1/44A7, H04N1/44A5, H04N1/00C22T, H04N1/32C17B2, H04N1/32C17, H04N21/418D, G06Q20/105, H04M1/725F1B1, H04N1/00C
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