Image file creation apparatus, image file creation method, recording medium storing image file creation program, and content creation system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019281183-A1
Application number	US-201916292123-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 4, 2019
Priority date	Mar 9, 2018
Publication date	Sep 12, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

An image file creation apparatus includes an acquisition circuit configured to acquire a picked-up image, and a processor configured to create an image file in recording the acquired image, in which the processor includes cooperation participation information for clarifying a relationship between the picked-up image and a cooperation image cooperating with the picked-up image as metadata in the image file, and the cooperation participation information includes at least one of (a) request information for requesting to provide the cooperation image cooperating with the picked-up image, and (b) provision information indicating whether or not the picked-up image can be provided as the cooperation image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An image file creation apparatus comprising:
an acquisition circuit configured to acquire a picked-up image; and a processor configured to create an image file in recording the acquired image, wherein the processor includes cooperation participation information for clarifying a relationship between the picked-up image and a cooperation image cooperating with the picked-up image as metadata in the image file, and the cooperation participation information includes at least one of
(a) request information for requesting to provide the cooperation image cooperating with the picked-up image, and
(b) provision information indicating whether or not the picked-up image can be provided as the cooperation image.

2 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the picked-up image and the cooperation image are associated with each other by each having at least one of the provision information and the request information as the metadata.

3 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the request information includes information about a request condition representing the relationship between the picked-up image and the cooperation image.

4 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising
an image pickup device configured to pick up the picked-up image, wherein the processor includes, as information about the request condition, information representing a relationship between an image pickup time of the picked-up image and an image pickup time of the cooperation image.

5 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the processor includes, as information about the request condition, at least one of information about equipment at a request destination of provision of the cooperation image, information about equipment at a supply source of the cooperation image, and information for specifying the cooperation image.

6 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor includes, as the provision information, information about equipment configured to generate a trigger for picking up the cooperation image.

7 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein
the processor includes, as the provision information, at least one of information about equipment configured to judge a timing of the trigger for picking up the cooperation image and information about equipment configured to directly request to provide the cooperation image.

8 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor creates the cooperation participation information after acquiring the picked-up image by the acquisition circuit while receiving information for specifying the cooperation image from equipment at a request destination of the provision of the cooperation image, and then updates the cooperation participation information.

9 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor receives information for specifying the cooperation image from equipment at a request destination of the provision of the cooperation image, and then acquires the cooperation image based on the received information.

10 . An image file creation method comprising:
acquiring a picked-up image; adding cooperation partition information including at least one of provision information for providing the picked-up image and request information for requesting to provide a cooperation image having a predetermined relationship with the picked-up image as metadata to the picked-up image; and including information about a request condition representing the predetermined relationship between the picked-up image and the cooperation image as the request information in the metadata.

11 . A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an image file creation program for causing a computer to:
acquire a picked-up image; add cooperation partition information including at least one of provision information for providing the picked-up image and request information for requesting to provide a cooperation image having a predetermined relationship with the picked-up image as metadata to the picked-up image; and include information about a request condition representing the predetermined relationship between the picked-up image and the cooperation image as the request information in the metadata.

12 . A content creation system comprising:
a content creation circuit provided in each of a plurality of pieces of equipment to create a cooperation content created by the plurality of pieces of equipment in cooperation; and a processor provided in each of the plurality of pieces of equipment, wherein the processor provided in each of the plurality of pieces of equipment adds a relationship among contents constituting the cooperation content as metadata to each of the contents, and generates as the metadata information about the plurality of pieces of equipment as parties to the cooperation and request source information about a request source which outputs a cooperation condition.

13 . An image file creation apparatus comprising:
an acquisition circuit configured to acquire a picked-up image; and a control circuit configured to create an image file in recording the acquired image, wherein the control circuit includes cooperation participation information for clarifying a relationship between the picked-up image and a cooperation image cooperating with the picked-up image as metadata in the image file, and the cooperation participation information includes at least one of (a) request information for requesting to provide the cooperation image cooperating with the picked-up image, and (b) provision information indicating whether or not the picked-up image can be provided as the cooperation image.

14 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein
the picked-up image and the cooperation image are associated with each other by each having at least one of the provision information and the request information as the metadata.

15 . The image file creation apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein
the request information includes information about a request condition representing the relationship between the picked-up image and the cooperation image.

Assignees

• Olympus Corp

Inventors

• Toyoda Tetsuya
• Ikeda Masaru
• Yoshida Hideaki
• Osa Kazuhiko
• Nonaka Osamu

Classifications

• H04N7/188

  Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position (signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253) · CPC title

• H04N1/00347

  with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus (circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32) · CPC title

• H04N1/00114 Primary

  with transmission of additional information signals (for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver H04N1/32101) · CPC title

• H04N7/181

  for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources · CPC title

• H04N1/32128 Primary

  attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image (for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144) · CPC title