IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: MORIOKA NAOKI, OHATA YUTAKA, TAMURA KATSUHIKO, TAJI YUKI, NISHIKAWA RIE, MOROOKA YUKA, TAKAHASHI OSAMU, ITO TAKAAKI, SUMINAGA MASANORI, MAEKAWA KOJI, BEPPU SHUNICHIRO, OSAWA TAE, KUSHIMA KAZUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 10.08.2022
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CHECKING-DEVICES; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

To enable easy provision of games at various fees.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus according to one aspect of the present technique is the imaging apparatus which provides a game including imaging a user himself/herself as a subject to the user. The imaging apparatus starts a game according to payment of a play fee different from a normal fee when coordination between a user ID being identification information of a user and a housing ID being identification information allocated to a housing of the imaging apparatus succeeds, and starts a game according to the payment of the normal fee when the coordination fails. The present technique can be applied to a photograph seal creation device which provides a series of games of printing a photographed image on a seal sheet.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】各種の料金でゲームを容易に提供できるようにする。【解決手段】本技術の一側面の撮影装置は、ユーザ自身を被写体とした撮影を含むゲームをユーザに提供する撮影装置である。撮影装置は、ユーザの識別情報であるユーザIDと撮影装置の筐体に割り当てられた識別情報である筐体IDとの連携が成功した場合、通常料金とは異なるプレイ料金の支払いが行われたことに応じてゲームを開始し、連携が失敗した場合、通常料金の支払いが行われたことに応じてゲームを開始する。本技術は、撮影した画像をシール紙に印刷する一連のゲームを提供する写真シール作成装置に適用することができる。【選択図】図１