Remote instruction system, remote instruction method, and program product therefor

• US 20080005283A1
• Filed: 10/30/2006
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Shingu, Jun
• Application Number:
  US11/589,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20080005283A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

A remote instruction system includes an attention image outputting portion that projects an annotation image and an attention image from a projecting portion onto a captured area of an image capturing portion that captures an image of an object, the annotation image being created on the basis of the image captured, the attention image being provided for attracting attention to the annotation image.

Claims

1. A remote instruction system comprising an attention image outputting portion that projects an annotation image and an attention image from a projecting portion onto a captured area of an image capturing portion that captures an image of an object, the annotation image being created on the basis of the image captured, the attention image being provided for attracting attention to the annotation image.

2. The remote instruction system according to claim 1, wherein the attention image outputting portion changes an output state of the attention image, while the attention image is being output.

3. The remote instruction system according to claim 1, wherein the attention image outputting portion projects the attention image to wholly include the annotation image, and then moves the attention image to concentrate on the annotation image.

4. The remote instruction system according to claim 1, wherein the attention image outputting portion changes an output state of the attention image according to the output state of the annotation image.

5. The remote instruction system according to claim 1, wherein the attention image outputting portion changes a shape of the attention image according to the shape of the annotation image.

6. The remote instruction system according to claim 1, wherein the attention image outputting portion does not project the attention image until a given period of time passes.

7. The remote instruction system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a server that controls the image capturing portion and the projecting portion; and

one or more remote terminals that receive the captured image from the server and give an instruction to project the annotation image,

wherein the attention image outputting portion does not transmit the captured image to the one or more remote terminals, while the attention image is being projected onto the object.

8. The remote instruction system according to claim 7, wherein the attention image outputting portion displays the attention image on the remote terminal by which the annotation image is not instructed to project.

9. The remote instruction system according to claim 1, wherein the attention image outputting portion forms the attention image according to an area onto which the annotation image is projected.

10. A remote instruction system comprising projecting an annotation image and an attention image onto a captured area in which an image of an object is captured, the annotation image being created on the basis of the image captured, the attention image being provided for attracting attention to the annotation image.

11. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for remote instruction, the process comprising projecting an annotation image and an attention image onto a captured area in which an image of an object is captured, the annotation image being created on the basis of the image captured, the attention image being provided for attracting attention to the annotation image.