Patent ID: 7678236

Claim:
A data transmitting-terminal for transmitting data made of encoded picture signals to a data receiving server, the data receiving server connecting to a plurality of data transmitting-terminals, the data transmitting-terminal comprising: an image processor for encoding externally supplied picture signals and generating one of static image data and motion image data and for processing image analysis using the generated image data and for generating attribute information of the image data including a result of the image analysis; a meta data processor for generating meta data from the attribute information of the image data supplied from said image processor sequentially to a process of the image processor; and a communication unit for transmitting the meta data supplied from said meta data processor and then transmitting the image data supplied from said image processor only when the following predetermined conditions are satisfied to reduce a load of the data receiving server: a) a predetermined time interval has elapsed, or a result of the image analysis identifies an object of interest, and b) a permission of data transmission is given by a data-receiving server in response to a transmission request by the data transmitting terminal.