TRANSMISSION DEVICE, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: SAWAGUCHI SATOSHI, TAKENAKA HIROICHI, TERAO NORIYUKI, YAMAMOTO HIDEAKI, HARADA TORU, ITO YOICHI, TANAKA TOMONORI, SHOHARA MAKOTO, IMAE NOZOMI, SATO HIROYUKI, IRINO YOSHIAKI, MASUDA KENSUKE, BESSHO DAISUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.01.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem in which a user cannot perform image processing such as correction of image data using metadata as the metadata is already deleted when the image data is downloaded from an image management server, because the metadata is regarded as data related to privacy and the image management server separates the metadata from updated image data to delete it and only manages the image data, in a lot of SNS's image management servers.SOLUTION: A transmission device acquires additional information such as metadata from image data and transmits it to an additional information management system 5 along with image identification information, thus the additional information management system 5 can manage the additional information. By this way, the additional information can be downloaded from the additional information management system 5 on the basis of corresponding image identification information when the user downloads the image data from an image management system 7.