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Picture display controller, moving-picture information transmission/reception system, picture display controlling method, moving-picture information transmitting/receiving method, and computer program

  • US 20030122949A1
  • Filed: 11/04/2002
  • Published: 07/03/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A picture display controller for outputting, to a display means, a picture having been taken from a specific point of view, selected or synthesized from moving-picture data including pictures having been taken from a plurality of viewpoints, the apparatus comprising a control means for selecting a picture to be displayed on the display means;

  • the control means being designed to select and execute either a preset mode in which a picture is displayed according to a preset picture display program corresponding to the moving-picture data and arranged as time-series data for identifying a picture to be displayed or a manual mode in which a picture to be displayed is identified based on a viewpoint setting command supplied from a user'"'"'s input means or a sensor, make a shift from the preset mode in progress to the manual mode when the viewpoint setting command is entered, and select a picture having been taken from a viewpoint conforming to the entered viewpoint setting command for display on the display means.

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