CLIENT TERMINAL, SERVER AND PROGRAM

• US 20130222612A1
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SAKO, Yoichiro, Nakamura, Takatoshi, Tange, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 9,412,202 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

There is provided a client terminal including a determination unit configured to determine whether an overhead view image is associated with a position indicated by a user, and a display control unit configured to perform control so that the overhead view image is displayed on a display unit in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determination unit.

Claims

1. A client terminal comprising:

a determination unit configured to determine whether an overhead view image is associated with a position indicated by a user; and

a display control unit configured to perform control so that the overhead view image is displayed on a display unit in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determination unit.

2. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein the overhead view image is scenery at an altitude corresponding to the position indicated by the user.

3. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit performs display of indicating a position with which the overhead view image is associated on a displayed image.

4. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit recognizes a position indicated by a user in a real image, the real image being a captured image of real space displayed on the display unit.

5. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein indication by the user is indicating an object in a real image displayed on the display unit.

6. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein indication by the user is indicating a part of sky in a real image displayed on the display unit.

7. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein indication by the user is indicating a particular floor number of a building in a real image displayed on the display unit.

8. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when a plurality of overhead view images are associated with the position indicated by the user, the display control unit controls the plurality of overhead view images to be displayed on the display unit.

9. The client terminal according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of overhead view images differ in at least one of an altitude, a direction or an angle of elevation.

10. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein the overhead view image is a panorama image obtained by looking around from the position indicated by the user.

11. The client terminal according to claim 1, wherein indication by the user is realized by a zoom operation.

12. The client terminal according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit controls the object indicated by the user and an overhead view image associated with the object to be displayed on the display unit.

13. A server comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive indicated position information indicative of a position indicated by a user at a client terminal;

a determination unit configured to determine whether an overhead view image is associated with the position indicated by the indicated position information; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit to the client terminal the overhead view image associated with the position indicated by the indicated position information in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determination unit.

14. A recording medium having a program recorded thereon, the program being configured to cause a computer to execute:

a determination process of determining whether an overhead view image is associated with a position indicated by a user; and

a control process of controlling the overhead view image to be displayed on a display unit in accordance with a determination result obtained in the determination process.

15. A recording medium having a program recorded thereon, the program being configured to cause a computer to execute:

a reception process of receiving indicated position information indicative of a position indicated by a user at a client terminal;

a determination process of determining whether an overhead view image is associated with the position indicated by the indicated position information; and

a transmitting process of transmitting to the client terminal the overhead view image associated with the position indicated by the indicated position information in accordance with a determination result obtained in the determination process.