Internet camera system

• US 20010017656A1
• Filed: 02/23/2001
• Published: 08/30/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Negishi, Kiyoshi, Araki, Yoshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US09/790,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20010017656A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/211.99
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN

Abstract

An Internet camera system is provided with an Internet camera and a plurality of clients, each of which are connectable to a predetermined server on the Internet. The Internet camera includes an image capturing system that captures an image covering a relatively wide area, and a transmitting system that transmits the captured image to the server on the Internet. Each of the plurality of clients includes a downloading system that downloads the image from the predetermined server, a storage device that stored the downloaded image, an extracting system that extracts a desired part of the image stored in the storage device, and a display system that displays the part of the image extracted by the extracting system.

Claims

1. An Internet camera system, comprising:

an Internet camera including an image capturing system that captures an image covering a relatively wide area, and a transmitting system that transmits the captured image to a predetermined server on the Internet; and

a plurality of clients, each of which includes a downloading system that downloads the image from said predetermined server, a storage device that stored the downloaded image, an extracting system that extracts a desired part of the image stored in said storage device, and a display system that displays the part of the image extracted by said extracting system.

2. The Internet camera system according to

claim 1

, wherein said Internet camera includes a camera employing a fish-eye lens, and wherein said display system compensates for distortion of the image captured through said fish-eye lens.

3. The Internet camera according to

claim 1

, wherein said extracting system enables a user of each of said plurality of clients to scroll the image displayed by said display system.

4. The Internet camera according to

claim 1

, wherein said extracting system enables a user of each of said plurality of clients to perform zoomIng of the image displayed by said display system.

5. The Internet camera according to

claim 1

, wherein said extracting system enables a user of each of said plurality of clients to rotate the image displayed by said display system.