Camera system with display for displaying superimposed information

• US 7,595,834 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2008
• Issued: 09/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Oya, Takashi, Iizuka, Yoshio, Kawai, Tomoaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hannett; James M
• Application Number:
  US12/145,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20080282296A1
• Time in Patent Office: 461 Days
• Field of Search: 348/333.02
• US Class Current: 348/333.02
• 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 for delivering to one or more terminals image information on which additional image information is superimposed, said image processing apparatus comprising:

an image information reception unit configured to receive the image information from an image sensing apparatus;

a database configured to store layout information relating to at least one of a superimpose position of the additional image information and a size of the additional image information corresponding to time and control information of the image sensing apparatus including at least one of a pan angle, a tilt angle and a zoom scaling factor;

an image processing unit configured to acquire the layout information from the database in accordance with current time and the control information, and superimpose the additional information on the image information in accordance with the layout information acquired from the database; and

an image information delivering unit configured to deliver the superimposed image information to the one or more terminals.

2. An image processing method used in an image processing apparatus for delivering to one or more terminals image information on which additional image information is superimposed, said image processing method comprising:

receiving the image information from an image sensing apparatus;

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

superimposing the additional image information on the image information in accordance with the size information acquired from the database; and

delivering the superimposed image information to the one or more terminals.

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