# US 2014/0152852 A1 · Predetermined-area management system, communication method, and computer program product > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0152852 A1 - Document ID: US20140152852A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/095,176 - Filed: 2013-12-03 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2012-12-05 - Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Inventors: Yoichi ITO; Toshiyuki Terashita; Noriyuki Terao; Yoshiaki Irino; Tomonori Tanaka; Nozomi Imae; Toru Harada; Hirokazu Takenaka; Hideaki Yamamoto; Kensuke Masuda; Satoshi Sawaguchi; Daisuke Bessho; Hiroyuki Satoh; Makoto Shohara - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140152852A1 ## CPC - H04N 1/2166: {for mass storage, e.g. in document filing systems (information retrieval G06F16/00)} - H04N 1/00137: {Transmission} - H04N 1/00148: {Storage (information retrieval G06F16/00)} - H04N 1/32122: {in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data} - H04N 2201/3225: of data relating to an image, a page or a document - H04N 2201/3226: of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image - H04N 2201/3274: Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information - H04N 2201/3278: Transmission - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract A predetermined-area management system is configured to communicate with a communication terminal. The predetermined-area management system includes: a storage unit that stores image identification information for identifying image data and predetermined-area information for identifying a predetermined area in the image data in association with each other; a receiving unit that receives image identification information that is transmitted from the communication terminal; an extraction unit that searches the storage unit by using the image identification information received by the receiving unit so as to extract associated predetermined-area information; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the communication terminal, the predetermined-area information extracted by the extraction unit. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A predetermined-area management system that is configured to communicate with a communication terminal, the predetermined-area management system comprising: a storage unit that stores image identification information for identifying image data and predetermined-area information for identifying a predetermined area in the image data in association with each other; a receiving unit that receives image identification information that is transmitted from the communication terminal; an extraction unit that searches the storage unit by using the image identification information received by the receiving unit so as to extract associated predetermined-area information; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the communication terminal, the predetermined-area information extracted by the extraction unit. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The predetermined-area management system according to claim 1, wherein, when there are a plurality of predetermined areas for the image data, the storage unit stores the image identification information and predetermined-area information for identifying each of the predetermined areas in association with each other. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The predetermined-area management system according to claim 1, wherein the receiving unit receives the image identification information and the predetermined-area information that are transmitted from a predetermined communication terminal, the predetermined-area management system further comprises a determination unit that determines whether a combination of the received image identification information and the received predetermined-area information matches a combination stored in the storage unit, and the transmitting unit transmits a determination result obtained by the determination unit to the communication terminal. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The predetermined-area management system according to claim 3, wherein when the determination result indicates that a matching combination is stored, the receiving unit again receives the image identification information and the predetermined-area information that are again transmitted from the predetermined communication terminal, and the storage unit stores the image identification information and the predetermined-area information that are received again in association with each other. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The predetermined-area management system according to claim 1, wherein the image data is data of a Mercator image. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The predetermined-area management system according to claim 1, wherein the communication terminal transmits image data or a comment for the image data to an image management system that manages the image data and the comment. ### Claim 7 A communication method performed by a predetermined-area management system configured to communicate with a communication terminal that transmits image data or a comment for the image data to an image management system that manages the image data and the comment, wherein the predetermined-area management system includes a storage unit that stores image identification information for identifying image data and predetermined-area information for identifying a predetermined area in the image data in association with each other, the communication method comprises: receiving image identification information that is transmitted from the communication terminal; extracting associated predetermined-area information by searching the storage unit by using the image identification information received at the receiving; and transmitting, to the communication terminal, the predetermined-area information extracted at the extracting. ### Claim 8 A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer readable program codes embodied in the medium for processing information in a predetermined-area management system configured to communicate with a communication terminal that transmits image data or a comment for the image data to an image management system that manages the image data and the comment, wherein the predetermined-area management system includes a storage unit that stores image identification information for identifying image data and predetermined-area information for identifying a predetermined area in the image data in association with each other, and the program codes when executed causes the computer to execute: receiving image identification information that is transmitted from the communication terminal; extracting associated predetermined-area information by searching the storage unit by using the image identification information received at the receiving; and transmitting, to the communication terminal, the predetermined-area information extracted at the extracting.