Server, electronic device, server control method, and computer-readable medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9148472-B2
Application number	US-201313763176-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 8, 2013
Priority date	Mar 27, 2012
Publication date	Sep 29, 2015
Grant date	Sep 29, 2015

Abstract

In one embodiment, there is provided a server. The server includes: a receiver configured to receive, from an electronic device, an instruction signal instructing the server to detect a name of a first person, positional information representing a position of the electronic device and an image data of the first person; an extractor configured to extract electronic devices existing within a certain range from the electronic device based on the positional information, wherein positional information of the electronic devices are stored in the server; a detector configured to detect the first person by performing face detection on persons who are associated with the extracted electronic devices using the image data of the first person; and an output module configured to output the name of the first person.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A server, comprising:
a storage module configured to store information associated with each of a plurality of electronic devices, the stored information associated with a first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices comprises a name identifying a user of the first electronic device, face data that comprises a facial image of the user of the first electronic device, and geographic position information for the first electronic device;
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Assignees

• Toshiba Kk

Inventors

• Shuto Eita

Classifications

• H04L67/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06V40/161 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V40/179

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K2009/00328

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K9/00

  Physics · mapped topic