IMAGE DATA DELIVERY

• US 20080282296A1
• Filed: 06/25/2008
• Published: 11/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Oya, Takashi, Iizuka, Yoshio, KAWAI, Tomoaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,595,834 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/695 Control of camera direction for changing a field of view, e.g. pan, tilt or based on tracking of objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

A conversion apparatus is connected to a camera server delivering image information obtained by image sensing to a display operation terminal. When image information is received from the camera server, the conversion apparatus converts the received image information to a format for a portable display terminal, and delivers it to the portable display terminal.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image information reception unit adapted to receive image information;

a database adapted to store position information relating to at least one of a position at which information other than the image information is superimposed and size information of the information other than the image information, at least one of the stored position information and the stored size information corresponding to time and control information of the image sensing apparatus including at least one of pan angle, tilt angle and zoom scaling factor;

an image processing unit adapted to acquire at least one of the position information and the size information corresponding to current time and the control information from the database, and superimpose the information other than the image information on the image information in accordance with the at least one of the position information and the size information acquired from the database; and

an image information delivering unit adapted to deliver the superimposed image information to a terminal.

2. An image processing method comprising:

receiving image information;

acquiring position information relating to at least one of a position at which information other than the image information is superimposed and size information of the information other than the image information from a database, wherein at least one of the position information and the size information corresponds to current time and control information of the image sensing apparatus including at least one of pan angle, tilt angle and zoom scaling factor;

superimposing information other than the image information on the image information in accordance with at least one of the position information and the size information acquired from the database; and

delivering the superimposed image information to a terminal.

3. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon for carrying out the image processing method of claim 2.