TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to an image capture system and an application control method.

BACKGROUND ART

In the related art, when an application is installed in a device (execution device) that executes an application, a server (storage server) manages an application program and an application package (hereinafter, simply referred to as an application), and the storage server may supply the application to the execution device. The execution device installs and executes the supplied application.

As a system handling an application in the related art, it has been known that in a multifunction peripheral in which a license file is embedded, if the license file is passed to the server and is designated according to the user's operation, the server installs an application in the multifunction peripheral by using the designated license file (for example, see PTL 1).

Further, it has been known that an external terminal, an internal terminal, and an application server are registered in a management server, and the application server and the internal terminal establish an encrypted communication path therebetween using an encrypted communication key received from the management server (for example, see PTL 2).

There is also a system that accumulates images captured by an image capture device in an image recording device and distributes the images to an image distribution device as necessary. As such a system, it has been known that a key management device distributes a shared key to image distribution devices and an image reproduction device, and an image recording device receives images distributed from the plurality of image distribution devices, and distributes the images to an image reproduction device (for example, see PTL 3).

CITATION LIST

Patent Literature

PTL 1: Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 2009-205262PTL 2: Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 2006-352834PTL 3: Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 2006-166279

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is assumed that the execution device is applied to an image capture device that captures an image, and the application is applied to an application used by the image capture device (camera application). In this case, with the techniques described in PTLs 1 to 3, the safety and operability of application control over the image capture device by the application server is insufficient.

The present disclosure has been made in view of the above problems, and provides an image capture system and an application control method capable of improving the safety and operability of application control, by a control device that makes a control request for an application, over an image capture device.

An image capture system of the present disclosure is an image capture system including an image capture device, and a management device that manages control over an application for the image capture device, the image capture device and the management device being connected with each other through a network, in which the management device generates control authority for controlling an application for the image capture device, based on a contract relating to the application for the image capture device and the image capture device, transmits image capture device identification information for identifying the image capture device relating to the contract, to a control device that makes a control request for the application for the image capture device, acquires the control request and the image capture device identification information from the control device, determines whether or not the control device has the control authority, based on the image capture device identification information, and transmits the control request to the image capture device identified by the image capture device identification information, in a case where the control device has the control authority, and the image capture device receives the control request from the management device, and controls the application for the image capture device in response to the control request.

An application control method of the present disclosure is an application control method in an image capture system in which an image capture device and a management device that manages control over an application for the image capture device are connected with each other through a network, in which control authority for controlling an application for the image capture device is generated, based on a contract relating to the application for the image capture device and the image capture device, by the management device, image capture device identification information for identifying the image capture device relating to the contract is transmitted to a control device that makes a control request for the application for the image capture device, by the management device, the control request and the image capture device identification information is acquired from the control device, by the management device, whether or not the control device has the control authority is determined based on the image capture device identification information, by the management device, the control request is transmitted to the image capture device identified by the image capture device identification information, in a case where the control device has the control authority, by the management device, the control request is received from the management device, by the image capture device, and the application for the image capture device is controlled in response to the control request, by the image capture device.

According to the present disclosure, it is possible to improve the safety and operability of application control, by a control device that makes a control request for an application, over an image capture device. For example, a mechanism in which a control device controls an image capture device by using an application can be realized safely and easily for a user.

