Image management system to obtain images of persons with open eyes
View Patent ↗A subject user is photographed in a photographing system in a theme park. At this time, photographs are taken a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval. Further, an instruction is given to photograph a specified number of times according to a number of persons included in an image which will be photographed. It is judged whether or not persons included in a plurality of image data obtained by photographing have their eyes open. A single set of image data which is judged to include the persons with open eyes is sent to an image storage server and stored in the image storage server.
1. An image management system comprising:
a photographing device including a photographing means installed at a fixed point, for obtaining image data representing an image of a person by photographing the person and an output means for outputting the image data;
a photographing control device for controlling the photographing means so that the photographing means continuously photographs a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval and causing the photographing device to obtain a plurality of image data;
an image selecting device including a judging means for judging whether or not a person included in each of a plurality of photograph images represented by each of the plurality of image data has his/her eyes open and a selecting means for selecting a single set of image data representing a photograph image which includes the person who is judged to have his/her eyes open; and
a storage device for storing the single set of image data selected by the image selecting devices,
wherein the photographing control device includes a number-of-person counting means for counting a number of persons who will be photographed by the photographing device and an instructing means for instructing the photographing device to increase a number of times of photographing with increase of the number of persons counted by the number-of-person counting means, and
the number-of-person counting means counts the number of persons who will be photographed in each of the plurality of photograph images, and the instructing means instructs the photographing device to increase the number of times of photographing taken at the predetermined time interval based on the increase of the number of persons counted within a photographing area, simultaneously.
2. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein the image selecting device is provided in the photographing device.
3. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein, the image selecting device is provided in the storage device.
4. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein the predetermined time interval is a time period which is longer than time required for a blink by a person and shorter than time from a blink to the next blink.
5. An image management system comprising:
a photographing device including a photographing means installed at a fixed point, for obtaining image data representing an image of a person by photographing the person and an output means for outputting the image data;
a photographing control device for controlling the photographing means so that the photographing means continuously photographs a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval and causing the photographing device to obtain a plurality of image data;
an image selecting device including a judging means for judging whether or not a person included in each of a plurality of photograph images represented by each of the plurality of image data has his/her eyes open and a selecting means for selecting a single set of image data representing a photograph image which includes the person who is judged to have his/her eyes open; and
a storage device for storing the single set of image data selected by the image selecting device,
wherein the photographing device detects the person who carries a wireless tag and photographs only the person who carries the wireless tag, and
wherein if a number of persons in a predetermined photographing area is less than a predetermined threshold value, the photographing device automatically photographs the persons, and wherein if the number of persons in the predetermined photographing area is equal to or more than the predetermined threshold value, the photographing device manually photographs the persons by using the wireless tag.
6. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein the photographing device includes a display means for displaying the image data.
7. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein the image storage device is connect to the photographing device via a network.
8. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein the image storage device accepts at least one of a request for downloading the image data, a request for creating an album using the image data, a request for creating a CD-R on which the image data are recorded and an order for printing the image data from a terminal device connected to the image storage device via a network.
9. A photography apparatus comprising:
a photographing means installed at a fixed point, for obtaining image data representing an image of a person by photographing the person;
an output means for outputting the image data;
a photographing control means for controlling the photographing means so that the photographing means continuously photographs a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval and causing the photographing device to obtain a plurality of image data;
a counting means for counting the number of human subjects to be photographed; and
a instructing means for instructing the photographing means to perform greater number of photography as the number of human subjects counted by the counting means increases,
wherein the counting means counts the number of human subjects who will be photographed in each of the plurality of photograph images, and the instructing means instructs the photographing means to increase a number of times of photographing taken at the predetermined time interval based on the increase of the number of human subjects counted within a photographing area, simultaneously.
10. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein the photographing means automatically photographs the plurality of times at the predetermined time interval to complete a predetermined number of photographs for obtaining a set of photographs.
11. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein the storage device only stores the single set of image data selected by the image selecting device.
12. An image management system comprising:
a photographing device including a photographing means installed at a fixed point, for obtaining image data representing an image of a person by photographing the person and an output means for outputting the image data;
a photographing control device for controlling the photographing means so that the photographing means continuously photographs a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval and causing the photographing device to obtain a plurality of image data;
an image selecting device including a judging means for judging whether or not a person included in each of a plurality of photograph images represented by each of the plurality of image data has his/her eyes open and a selecting means for selecting a single set of image data representing a photograph image which includes the person who is judged to have his/her eyes open; and
a storage device for storing the single set of image data selected by the image selecting device,
wherein the photographing control device includes a number-of-person counting means for counting a number of persons who will be photographed by the photographing device and an instructing means for instructing the photographing device to increase a number of times of photographing with increase of the number of persons counted by the number-of-person counting means, and
wherein the photographing means automatically photographs the plurality of times at the predetermined time interval to complete a predetermined number of photographs for obtaining a set of photographs, and the number-of-person counting means counts the number of persons who will be photographed in each of the plurality of photograph images, and the instructing means instructs the photographing device to increase the number of times of photographing taken at the predetermined time interval within the set of photographs.
13. An image management system as defined in claim 1 , wherein the number-of-person counting means counts the number of persons by extracting images of facial parts of the persons included in each of the plurality of photograph images, and counting a number of extracted facial images.
14. An image management system comprising:
a photographing device including a photographing means installed at a fixed point, for obtaining image data representing an image of a person by photographing the person and an output means for outputting the image data;
a photographing control device for controlling the photographing means so that the photographing means continuously photographs a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval and causing the photographing device to obtain a plurality of image data;
an image selecting device including a judging means for judging whether or not a person included in each of a plurality of photograph images represented by each of the plurality of image data has his/her eyes open and a selecting means for selecting a single set of image data representing a photograph image which includes the person who is judged to have his/her eyes open; and
a storage device for storing the single set of image data selected by the image selecting device,
wherein the judging means judges whether or not each person of a plurality of persons included in each of the plurality of photograph images has his/her eyes open and the selecting means selects a single set of image data representing a photograph which includes each person of the plurality of persons who is judged to have his/her eyes open.
15. An image management system comprising:
a photographing device including a photographing means installed at a fixed point, for obtaining image data representing an image of a person by photographing the person and an output means for outputting the image data;
a photographing control device for controlling the photographing means so that the photographing means continuously photographs a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval and causing the photographing device to obtain a plurality of image data;
an image selecting device including a judging means for judging whether or not a person included in each of a plurality of photograph images represented by each of the plurality of image data has his/her eyes open and a selecting means for selecting a single set of image data representing a photograph image which includes the person who is judged to have his/her eyes open; and
a storage device for storing the single set of image data selected by the image selecting device,
wherein the photographing device detects the person who carries a wireless tag, and if a number of persons in a predetermined photographing area is less than a predetermined threshold value, the photographing device automatically photographs the persons, and wherein if the number of persons in the predetermined photographing area is equal to or more than the predetermined threshold value, the photographing device manually photographs the persons by using the wireless tag.