Image Capture Apparatus Subject Identification Communication
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image capture systems fail to efficiently share and acquire images of specific subjects across multiple devices, leading to suboptimal photography results and increased workload in sorting and compiling images.
Innovation Solution
An image capture apparatus and communication system that transmits and receives identification information for specific subjects, allowing image capture devices to share and acquire images of desired subjects directly, reducing the need for manual sorting and compilation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If images are photographed by multiple image capture devices without coordination, then more images of the same subject can be captured, but the workload for sorting and compiling images increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by having image capture devices transmit identification information of captured subjects to a server before full image processing. The server pre-identifies and selects images containing desired subjects, so when images need to be compiled, the sorting work has already been done in advance, reducing the final compilation workload
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between multiple image capture devices and the user. The server receives identification information from devices, performs subject identification, selects relevant images, and provides them to users. This intermediary handles the complex sorting and compilation tasks, freeing users from manual image management
2Reliability
If all captured images are transmitted and stored, then no images are lost, but communication bandwidth and storage space are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential identification information (such as face data or subject features) from captured images for transmission and storage. The server uses this extracted information to identify subjects and select relevant images, eliminating the need to transmit and store all full-resolution images, thus saving communication bandwidth and storage space while preserving the ability to retrieve needed images
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of transmitting and storing original full-resolution images, the system creates and transmits simplified copies in the form of identification information (face data, subject features). These copies are sufficient for subject identification and image selection purposes, allowing the system to maintain reliability for finding needed images while dramatically reducing data transmission and storage requirements
Data Source
AI summary
An image capture apparatus includes a second communication control unit, a first communication control unit and a communication unit. The second communication control unit controls the communication unit so as to transmit information of a face image serving as identification information to identify a specific subject to one other image capture apparatus. The first communication control unit controls the communication unit so as to receive from the other image capture apparatus, from among images captured by the image capture unit included in each image capture apparatus, an image in which a subject designated by the transmitted face image is captured.