IMAGE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROVIDING METHOD
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Abstract
A terminal, information generating servers and a positional information server are provided. The information generating servers are installed in respectively corresponding to a plurality of objects. Each object may be divided into small blocks as one or more spatial regions and a case is included in which the block is the small block. One or more image acquisition cameras are provided which acquire an internal image of each object or an external image in which surroundings of each object are seen from the object. A display image to be transmitted to the terminal is generated from the internal image or the external image of each object based on at least one of terminal positional information indicating a position of the terminal and terminal directional information indicating a direction of the terminal. While pointing a to-be-identified target object among the objects, the terminal detects, detects the terminal positional information and the terminal directional information. The positional information server records object positional information indicating a position of each object and access information for accessing the information generating server corresponding to each object such that the object positional information and the access information are correlated to each object. Candidate objects as candidates of the target object are identified from the respective objects based on the terminal positional information and the terminal directional information and object positional information of the candidate objects are extracted. The terminal identifies the target object from the candidate objects based on the object positional information of the candidate objects, the terminal positional information, and the terminal directional information; acquires access information of an information generating server corresponding to the target object from the positional information server; accesses the information generating server corresponding to the target object; acquires a display image from the information generating server; and displays the display image.
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52 Claims
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35. An image providing system comprising:
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a terminal which has a visual axis by using which a user points a target object to be identified from a plurality of objects and is configured to identify said target object pointed by said visual axis from said plurality of objects; an information generating server configured to acquire an internal image as an image of an inside of said target object or an external image as an image of external surroundings, which is taken from said target object, and generate a display image as an image to be outputted by said terminal based on said internal image or said external image, wherein said external surroundings can not be seen from said user with eyes thereof and said display image is an image to be seen along a direction of said visual axis or a direction close to said direction of said visual axis; and a positional information server configured to store object positional information as three-dimensional positional information of each of said plurality of objects and retrieval information as information for accessing to information generating server corresponding to said target object such that said object positional information and said retrieval information are respectively correlated to said each object, wherein said terminal identifies said target object pointed by said visual axis based on a position of said terminal and a direction of said terminal, accesses said information generating server corresponding to said target object based on said retrieval information of said identified target object, acquires said display image of said target object from said information generating server, and displays said display image. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. An image providing method comprising:
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identifying a target object pointed by a visual axis which is set to a terminal in order to point said target object as an object which a user intends to identify from a plurality of objects; accessing an information generating server corresponding to said identified target object; and displaying on an output unit of said terminal, an internal image as an image of inside of said target object or an external image as an image of outside, which is taken from said target object, wherein said outside can not be seen from said user with eyes thereof, and said internal image or said external image is an image to be seen along a direction of said visual axis or a direction close to said direction of said visual axis. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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52. A computer-readable recording medium which records a program that when executed causes a terminal to perform a method comprising:
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identifying a target object pointed by a visual axis which is set to said terminal in order to point said target object as an object which a user intends to identify from a plurality of objects; accessing an information generating server corresponding to said identified target object; and displaying on an output unit of said terminal, an internal image as an image of inside of said target object or an external image as an image of outside, which is taken from said target object, wherein said outside can not be seen from said user with eyes thereof, and said internal image or said external image is an image to be seen along a direction of said visual axis or a direction close to said direction of said visual axis.
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Specification