METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING AN IMAGE CAPTURE POSITION OF A CAMERA
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Abstract
A digital image capture device streams captured images (e.g. low-resolution images) to a remote viewer terminal, along with image identifiers and/or device position information. The remote viewer terminal displays the images for viewing by a remote viewer. The remote viewer provides inputs to a user interface, which indicate a direction of desired movement of the image capture device, and/or that the remote viewer wants new images (e.g. high-resolution images) to be captured at a desired position. The user interface inputs are translated into requests, which are transmitted to the image capture device. The image capture device provides movement prompts that direct a device operator to move the device in a requested direction or toward a requested position. When a position of the device corresponds to a requested image capture position, the image capture device captures one or more new images, and transmits the new images.
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22 Claims
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1-16. -16. (canceled)
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17. An electronic system comprising:
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a display device; a device operator interface; a data path interface configured to receive, from a remote device, image data and indications of image capture positions associated with the image data; and a processing system configured to cause images to be displayed on the display device, wherein the images correspond to the image data received from the remote device, receive a device operator input via the device operator interface indicating device operator selection of a selected image of the displayed images, and transmit an image capture request to the remote device via the data path interface, wherein the image capture request includes information corresponding to an image capture position for the selected image. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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