US 10,095,713 B2Granted

Information device, server, recording medium with image file recorded thereon, image file generating method, image file management method, and computer readable recording medium

AssigneeOlympus Corporation

InventorsYoshinori Matsuzawa, Sumio Kawai, Kazuhiro Sato, Osamu Nonaka

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Abstract

The information device includes an imaging unit that images a subject and generates image data of the subject, a meta information generating unit that generates meta information related to the image data generated by the imaging unit, a possibility information generating unit that generates, with respect to the meta information, possibility information setting whether or not change of original information is possible by an external device when the meta information is transmitted to the external device, and an image file generating unit that generates an image file associating the image data generated by the imaging unit, the meta information generated by the meta information generating unit, and the possibility information generated by the possibility information generating unit with one another.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An information device communicatable via a network, the information device comprising:

an imaging device that images a subject and generates image data of the subject;
a display that displays the image data of the subject and related images;
a related image selecting circuit that selects at least one related image from the displayed related images;
a meta information generating circuit that generates meta information related to the image data generated by the imaging device;
an image file generating circuit that generates an image file comprising:
the image data generated by the imaging device,
the meta information generated by the meta information generating circuit, and
related image data information comprising at least related image data corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging device and meta information corresponding to the selected related image, and
wherein the image data, the meta information and the related image data information are associated with one another in the generated image file;
and
a server that is able to receive the generated imaged file via a network file from an external device, the server comprising:
a transceiver that receives or transmits the image file via the network;
a recorder that records therein the image file received from the external device;
a display control circuit that causes, when an instruction signal instructing browsing of the image file is input from another external device different from the external device, the another external device to display the meta information and an image corresponding to image data;
a meta information adding circuit that, when permitted by the external device, additionally records, when additional data related to the image data are received from the another external device, the additional data into the image file as new meta information;
a data size determination circuit that determines, when the meta information adding circuit additionally records the new meta information into the image file, whether or not a volume of the image file exceeds a prescribed amount set beforehand;
and
a resizing circuit that compresses the image data, when the data size determination circuit determines that the prescribed amount is exceeded.

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A nontransitory computer readable recording medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a processor provided in an information device communicatable via a network to execute:

imaging a subject and generating image data of the subject;
displaying the image data of the subject and related images;
selecting at least one related image from the displayed related images;
generating meta information related to the image data;
and
generating an image file comprising:
the image data of the subject,
the meta information, and
related image data information comprising at least related image data corresponding to the image data of the subject and meta information corresponding to the selected related image,
wherein the image data, the meta information, and the related image data information are associated with one another in the generated image file;
recording the image file;
causing, when an instruction signal instructing browsing of the image file is input from an external device, the external device to display the meta information and an image corresponding to image data;
additionally recording, when additional data related to image data is received from the external device, the additional data into the image file as new meta information;
determining, when the new meta information is additionally recorded into the image file, whether or not a volume of the image file exceeds a prescribed amount set beforehand;
and
compressing the image data when the prescribed amount is determined to be exceeded.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.