Information management apparatus, information management system, non-transitory computer readable medium that stores information management program and information management method

An information management system comprising:

• a terminal device including
• a photographing unit that is able to capture an image of a subject by matching the subject to be photographed inside a display screen,
• a display controller that displays, on the display screen, a photographing region index image in which an identification code photographing region where an identification code for specifying a main image is photographed and a plurality of regions where character information for specifying a user of the main information is photographed are dividedly provided in a determinable manner, and
• a transmitting unit that transmits image information including the identification code, including a photograph of the character information photographed by the photographing unit;
• and
• an information management apparatus including
• a memory that stores main information that is identified by at least an identification code, and that stores user information indicating a user of the main information;
• a receiving unit that receives the image information along with image information including the photograph of character information for specifying the user transmitted from the transmitting unit of the terminal device,
• a specifying unit that specifies the main information stored in the memory based on the identification code and specifies the user based on the character information, which is included in the image information received by the receiving unit,
• a region determining unit that determines which region the character information is in, among the regions in the photograph that are predetermined and divided by the photographing region index image, the regions being determined based on the presence of the character information in the photograph;
• and
• an access right granting unit that grants a different type of access right that is predetermined to the user specified from the character information, the granted type of access right being different for each region determined by the region determining unit.

An information management method comprising:

• storing main information that is identified by at least an identification code and user information indicating a user of the main information;
• receiving the identification code for identifying the main information along with image information including a photograph of character information for specifying the user;
• specifying the stored main information on based on the identification code and specifying the user based on the character information, which is included in the received image information;
• determining which region the character information is in, among a plurality of regions that are predetermined, based on the presence of the character information in the photograph;
• and
• granting a predetermined type of access right to the user specified from the character information, the granted type of access right being different for each determined region.