Image data management apparatus, method and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKanako Yamakawa
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Abstract
Image data are each related to identification information on an image-capturing location and an image-capturing apparatus, and a CPU, upon issuance of an image data transfer instruction, determines a non-image-capturing location on the basis of the image-capturing location information for image data captured by a specific image-capturing apparatus and stored in a recording medium. Then, from among image data captured by other image-capturing apparatuses and stored in other recording medium, image data captured in the non-image-capturing location is extracted, so that a user of the specific image-capturing apparatus can easily obtain image data captured by the other apparatuses in a location that the specific image-capturing apparatus did not capture images of.
Claims11
An image data management apparatus for managing a plurality of image data, comprising:
- a reading unit configured to read identification information unique to an image-capturing apparatus which captured the image data, and image-capturing location information indicating an image-capturing location of the image data, the identification information and the image-capturing location information being related to the image data;
- a determination unit configured to determine a non-image-capturing location for an image-capturing apparatus corresponding to specific identification information on the basis of the image-capturing location information of image data related to the specific identification information;
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- an extraction unit configured to extract, from among image data related to other identification information that is different from the specific identification information, image data whose image-capturing locations exists in the non-image-capturing location.
An image data management method for managing a plurality of image data, comprising the steps of:
- reading identification information unique to an image-capturing apparatus which captured the image data, and image-capturing location information indicating an image-capturing location of the image data, the identification information and the image-capturing location information being related to the image data;
- determining a non-image-capturing location for an image-capturing apparatus corresponding to specific identification information on the basis of the image-capturing location information of image data related to the specific identification information;
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- extracting, from among image data related to other identification information that is different from the specific identification information, image data whose image-capturing location exists in the non-image-capturing location.
A computer program stored on a computer-readable recording medium, comprising program code for causing a computer to execute management processing of a plurality of image data, the management processing comprising:
- reading identification information unique to an image-capturing apparatus which captured the image data, and image-capturing location information indicating an image-capturing location of the image data, the identification information and the image-capturing location information being related to the image data;
- determining a non-image-capturing location for an image-capturing apparatus corresponding to specific identification information on the basis of the image-capturing location information of image data related to the specific identification information;
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- extracting, from among image data related to other identification information that is different from the specific identification information, image data whose image-capturing location exists in the non-image-capturing location.
An image data management apparatus for managing a plurality of image data, comprising:
- a reading unit configured to read identification information unique to an image-capturing apparatus which captured the image data, and image-capturing location information indicating an image-capturing location of the image data, the identification information and the image-capturing location information being related to the image data;
- a determination unit configured to determine an image-capturing area for an image-capturing apparatus corresponding to specific identification information on the basis of the image-capturing location information of image data related to the specific identification information;
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- an extraction unit configured to extract, from among image data related to other identification information that is different from the specific identification information, image data whose image-capturing location does not exist in the image-capturing area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.