CV TAG VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH LAYER GENERATING AND SELECTION FUNCTIONS

• US 20100061701A1
• Filed: 12/26/2007
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Iwane Laboratories, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Iwane Laboratories, Ltd.
• Inventors: Iwane, Waro
• Granted Patent: US 8,218,943 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/12 Panospheric to cylindrical image transformations

Abstract

Under an internet environment, video images of actual roads, stores or the like are distributed, an arbitrary tag can be attached to the video images or information can be written in them and further a plurality of layers are set to the video images in the same area. An administrator device (200) stores a CV video image obtained by adding, to a video image of an arbitrary object area, a CV value indicating three-dimensional values of camera positions and attitudes during shooting, stores a CV tag which is displayed in a synthesized manner at an arbitrary designated position in the CV video image, generates a plurality of layers to be overlapped with the CV video image and having the same coordinate system as that of the CV video image, and stores the generated layers in association with the corresponding CV video images. A plurality of user devices (300) which are respectively connected with the administrator device (200) through an internet receive desired CV video images from the administrator device (200) for display, display a desired layer in the displayed CV video image in an overlapped manner, and synthesize and display the CV video image and the layer with a CV tag at a desirable position on a display (300a).

Claims

1. A CV tag image display device provided with layer generating and selecting functions comprising an administrator device and one or two or more user devices which are communicatably connected with the administrator device through a network;

the administrator device comprises;

a CV video image storing means which stores a CV video image obtained by adding to a video image of an arbitrary object area a predetermined CV value indicating three-dimensional values of the position and posture of a camera during shooting;

a layer generating means which generates one or two or more layers which are to be overlapped with the CV video image and have the same coordinate system as that of the CV video image;

a layer storing means which stores the layer after relating it to a corresponding CV video image;

a CV tag inputting means which arranges a predetermined CV tag in an arbitral three-dimensional coordinates in a designated range of the layer;

a CV tag storing means which stores, together with the relevant information thereof, the CV tag which has been arranged for each layer;

a CV tag detecting means which detects and extracts the CV tag which has been arranged for each layer or the relevant information thereof, and distributes the detected and extracted CV tag or the relevant information thereof to the user device; and

an ID administrating means which administrates all of the CV video images, layers, CV tags and relevant information within the CV tag, selects data required by the user device, combines the data, and distributes the data to the user device or records the data in the user device;

the user device which is connected with the administer device through a network according to an inputting operation of a user interface comprises;

a display which displays a predetermined image;

a CV video image selecting and displaying means which selects and receives a CV video image of a desired location among CV video images to be stored in the CV video image storing means of the administrator device and displays the selected and received CV video image on the display;

a layer selecting and integrating means which causes the layer generating means of the administrator device to generate a desired layer, or from the layers stored in the layer storing means, selecting a desired layer from a plurality of layers corresponding to the CV video image which has been selected by the CV video image selecting and displaying means and receiving the generated and selected layer to integrate the coordinates of the generated layer with the coordinates of the CV video image;

a CV tag selecting and displaying means which selects a CV tag arranged on the layer which has been selected by the layer selecting and integrating means, and integrating the selected CV tag on the layer of which the coordinates are integrated, thereby displaying the CV tag on the display together with the CV image in a synthesized manner; and

a tag information selecting and displaying means which designates the CV tag which is displayed in a synthesized manner with the CV video image and allows the CV tag to be displayed on the display in such a manner that the relevant information of the CV tag can be edited, classified, integrated, retrieved, deleted or the like.

2. The CV tag image display device provided with layer generating and selecting functions according to claim 1, wherein

the administrator device comprises:

a two-dimensional map storing means which stores two-dimensional map corresponding to a CV video image stored in the CV video image storing means, and

the user device comprises;

a two-dimensional map display means which selects a desired two-dimensional map from the two-dimensional map storing means, receives the map and allow the map to be displayed on the display and,

a camera position displaying means which displays a shooting position of the corresponding CV video image and a camera moving direction on the two-dimensional map which is displayed on the display,

the CV video image selecting and displaying means selects and receives, from the CV video image storing means, a CV video image corresponding to an arbitral point which has been designated in the displayed two-dimensional map and allows the CV video image to be displayed on the display.

3. The CV tag image display device provided with layer generating and selecting functions according to claim 2, wherein

the user device comprises a storing means which stores, instead of the administrator device, part or all of prescribed information selected from a CV video image to be stored in the CV video image storing means of the administrator device, a CV tag and relevant information thereof to be stored in the CV tag storing means, layer information to be stored in the layer storing means and a two-dimensional map information to be stored in the two-dimensional map storing means.

4. The CV tag image display device provided with layer generating and selecting functions according to claim 1, wherein

the administrator device comprises a real-time image means which captures a real-time image corresponding to a CV video image stored in the CV video image storing means and synthesizing and displaying the real-time image in the corresponding CV video image displayed in the display.

5. The CV tag image display device provided with layer generating and selecting functions according to any claim 1, wherein

the user device comprises a storing means which stores, of the layer information to be stored in the layer storing means, layer information relating to a layer generated by the user device instead of the administrator device.

6. The CV tag image display device provided with layer generating and selecting functions according to claim 1, wherein

the CV video image storing means stores a plurality of CV video images taken for the same object area at different times.