System for delivering images, program for delivering images, and method for delivering images

• US 20080068464A1
• Filed: 01/03/2007
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Sachiko, Shiohara, Morito, Nakayama, Osafumi
• Application Number:
  US11/648,535
• Publication Number:
  US 20080068464A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/159
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

The present invention provides a system for delivering images, a program for delivering images, and a method for delivering images, which can deliver images according to the monitoring state for the images. There is provided a system for delivering images to at least one monitor, which includes an image receiving unit that takes in at least one image to be displayed on the monitors, a state receiving unit that takes in the monitoring state of the respective monitors, and a delivery unit that selects destination monitors from among the monitors based on the monitoring state taken in by the state receiving unit, and selects delivery images which are images to be delivered to the respective destination monitors from among images taken in by the image receiving unit, and delivers the delivery images to the corresponding destination monitors.

Claims

1. A system for delivering images to at least one monitor, the system comprising:

an image receiving unit that takes in at least one image to be displayed on the monitor;

a state receiving unit that takes in the monitoring state of the respective monitors; and

a delivery unit that selects destination monitors from among the monitors based on the monitoring state taken in by the state receiving unit, and selects delivery images which are imaged to be delivered to the respective destination monitors from among images taken in by the image receiving unit, and delivers the delivery images to the corresponding destination monitors.

2. The system for delivering images according to claim 1,

wherein the delivery unit sets monitors whose monitoring state is normal to normal monitors, and sets the normal monitors to the destination monitors.

3. The system for delivering images according to claim 2,

wherein the delivery unit distributes images taken in by the image receiving unit to the destination monitors, and updates the distribution result as delivery images for the respective destination monitors.

4. The system for delivering images according to claim 2,

wherein the image receiving unit further takes in pickup source identifiers indicative of pickup sources of taken in images,

the system further comprising:

a standard information receiving unit that, with respect to standard images which are images to be displayed on the monitors, takes in pickup source identifiers of the standard images for the respective monitors set up in advance;

wherein the delivery unit sets monitors other than the normal monitors to abnormal monitors, and, based on pickup source identifiers taken in by the image receiving unit and pickup source identifiers taken in by the standard information receiving unit, sets standard images corresponding to the normal monitors to delivery images to the normal monitors, and delivers standard images corresponding to the abnormal monitors to the normal monitors.

5. The system for delivering images according to claim 1,

wherein, in case a plurality of delivery images are selected for a specific destination monitor, the delivery unit combines the plural delivery images to set thus combined image to a delivery image, and delivers the delivery image to the specific destination monitor.

6. The system for delivering images according to claim 1,

wherein, in case a plurality of delivery images are selected for a specific destination monitor, the delivery unit delivers the plural delivery images and delivery information which is information related to the delivery images to the specific destination monitor,

the system further comprising:

display control units each of which receives a plurality of delivery images and delivery information delivered from the delivery unit, and combines the plural delivery images based on the delivery information to set thus combined image to a single display image, and makes the specific destination monitor display the display image.

7. The system for delivering images according to claim 6,

wherein the delivery information includes the number of the plural delivery images to be delivered to the specific destination monitor.

8. The system for delivering images according to claim 6,

wherein, with respect to the plural delivery images to be delivered to the specific destination monitor, the delivery information includes disposition information at the time of displaying the delivery images.

9. The system for delivering images according to claim 1, further comprising:

state detection units which are arranged for the respective monitors, each of which detects the monitoring state of the monitor to output thus detected monitoring state to the state receiving unit.

10. The system for delivering images according to claim 9,

wherein the state detection units output inputs from the observers for the monitors to the state receiving unit as the monitoring state.

11. The system for delivering images according to claim 9,

wherein the state detection units detect the environment of the monitors to output the detection result,

the system further comprising:

state judgment units each of which judges whether or not the observer normally monitors the monitor based on the detection result by the state detection unit, and outputs the judgment result to the state receiving unit as the monitoring state.

12. The system for delivering images according to claim 11,

wherein the state detection units pick up images, and are so arranged as to pick up observers who monitor the monitors to send the picking up result to the state judgment units as the detection result.

13. The system for delivering images according to claim 12,

wherein each of the state judgment units extracts, from the picking up result by the state detection unit, at least any one of the presence of the observer, direction of the face of the observer, time period during which eyes of the observer are closed, and determines that the monitoring state is normal in case the extraction result fulfills a predetermined condition.

14. The system for delivering images according to claim 1, further comprising:

image pickup units which pick up subjects to be monitored, and output thus picked up images to the image receiving unit.

15. The system for delivering images according to claim 1, further comprising:

notification input units which are arranged for the respective monitors, and receive input of notification by the observers for the monitors.

16. The system for delivering images according to claim 1,

wherein the delivery unit selects the destination monitors and the delivery images every time the monitoring state is changed.

17. A computer-readable recording medium which stores a program for delivering images which makes a computer deliver images to be displayed on monitors, the program comprising:

an image receiving step that takes in at least one image to be displayed on the monitors;

a state receiving step that takes in the monitoring state of the respective monitors; and

a delivery step that selects destination monitors from among the monitors based on the monitoring state taken in by the state receiving step, and selects delivery images which are images to be delivered to the respective destination monitors from among images taken in by the image receiving step, and delivers the delivery images to the corresponding destination monitors.

18. The computer-readable recording medium which stores the program for delivering images according to claim 17,

wherein the delivery step sets monitors whose monitoring state is normal to normal monitors, and sets the normal monitors to the destination monitors.

19. The computer-readable recording medium which stores the program for delivering images according to claim 18,

wherein the delivery step distributes images taken in by the image receiving step to the destination monitors, and sets the distribution result to delivery images for the respective destination monitors.

20. A method for delivering images to be displayed on monitors, the method comprising:

an image receiving step that takes in at least one image to be displayed on the monitors;

a state receiving step that takes in the monitoring state of the respective monitors; and

a delivery step that selects destination monitors from among the monitors based on the monitoring state taken in by the state receiving step, and selects delivery images which are images to be delivered to the respective destination monitors from among images taken in by the image receiving step, and delivers the delivery images to the corresponding destination monitors.