Image display system, display apparatus, and display method

• US 20080259199A1
• Filed: 10/29/2007
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sugino, Akinobu, Tsuruta, Masaaki, Ozaki, Nozomu, Sako, Yoichiro, Ito, Taiji, Sekizawa, Hidehiko, Totsuka, Yonetaro, Kimura, Keiji, Asukai, Masamichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,876,374 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.01
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an image display system including a display apparatus, an imaging apparatus placed on a movable body; and a server apparatus. The display apparatus and the imaging apparatus are capable of communicating with the server apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section; a speed detection section; and a control section that controls transmission of image data and speed information to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes: a movable body speed management section that manages the moving speed of the movable body using the speed information; and a control section that identifies an imaging apparatus that matches speed specification information, and causes image data to be transferred from the identified imaging apparatus to the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display section; and a control section that performs a speed specification process, an image request transmission process, and a display process.

Claims

1. An image display system, comprising:

a display apparatus;

an imaging apparatus to be placed on a movable body for imaging; and

a server apparatus, wherein

each of said display apparatus and said imaging apparatus is capable of communicating with said server apparatus,

said imaging apparatus includes;

an imaging section configured to take an image to obtain image data,

a speed detection section configured to detect a moving speed of the movable body and generate speed information indicative of the moving speed, and

a control section configured to perform a transmission control process of causing the image data obtained by the imaging section and the speed information generated by the speed detection section to be transmitted to said server apparatus,

said server apparatus includes;

a movable body speed management section configured to manage the moving speed of the movable body on which said imaging apparatus is placed using the speed information transmitted from said imaging apparatus, and

a control section configured to perform a camera identification process of, based on speed specification information transmitted from said display apparatus, checking the moving speed of the movable body managed by the movable body speed management section and identifying an imaging apparatus that matches the speed specification information, and a transfer control process of causing image data to be transferred from the identified imaging apparatus to said display apparatus, and

said display apparatus includes;

a display section configured to perform image display, and

a control section configured to perform a speed specification process of setting the speed specification information based on a user input, an image request transmission process of transmitting the speed specification information to said server apparatus to make a request for the image data, and a display process of receiving the image data transmitted from said server apparatus in response to the image request transmission process and causing the display section to perform a display operation based on the received image data.

2. The image display system according to claim 1, wherein

said imaging apparatus further includes:

a location detection section configured to detect location information, and as the transmission control process, the control section of said imaging apparatus additionally performs a process of causing the location information detected by the location detection section to be transmitted to said server apparatus,

the movable body speed management section of said server apparatus manages the moving speed and location of the movable body on which said imaging apparatus is placed using the speed information and the location information transmitted from said imaging apparatus,

the control section of said display apparatus performs a location specification process of setting location specification information for specifying a location, and, in the image request transmission process, transmits the speed specification information and the location specification information to said server apparatus, and

in the camera identification process, the control section of said server apparatus identifies the imaging apparatus based on the speed specification information and the location specification information transmitted from said display apparatus.

3. The image display system according to claim 1, wherein the movable body is one of a person, a non-human creature, a first device that travels on the ground, a second device that travels on a sea surface, a third device that travels beneath the sea surface, a fourth device that travels through the air, and a fifth device that travels outside the atmosphere of the earth.

4. An image display system, comprising:

a display apparatus;

an imaging apparatus to be placed on a movable body for imaging; and

a server apparatus, wherein

each of said display apparatus and said imaging apparatus is capable of communicating with said server apparatus,

said imaging apparatus includes;

an imaging section configured to take an image to obtain image data,

a speed detection section configured to detect a moving speed of the movable body and generate speed information indicative of the moving speed, and

a control section configured to perform a transmission control process of causing the image data obtained by the imaging section and additional data that includes at least the speed information generated by the speed detection section when the image data was obtained by imaging to be transmitted to said server apparatus,

said server apparatus includes;

a storage section configured to store the image data and the additional data transmitted from said imaging apparatus, and

a control section configured to perform a search/transmission control process of searching through the image data stored in the storage section based on speed specification information transmitted from said display apparatus, and causing image data found to be read from the storage section and transmitted to said display apparatus, and

said display apparatus includes;

a display section configured to perform image display, and

a control section configured to perform a speed specification process of setting the speed specification information based on a user input, an image request transmission process of transmitting the speed specification information to said server apparatus to make a request for the image data, and a display process of receiving the image data transmitted from said server apparatus in response to the image request transmission process and causing the display section to perform a display operation based on the received image data.

5. The image display system according to claim 4, wherein

said imaging apparatus further includes:

a location detection section configured to detect location information, and the control section of said imaging apparatus allows the additional data to include the location information detected by the location detection section when the image data was obtained by imaging,

the control section of said display apparatus performs a location specification process of setting location specification information for specifying a location, and, in the image request transmission process, transmits the speed specification information and the location specification information to said server apparatus, and

in the search/transmission control process, the control section of said server apparatus searches through the image data stored in the storage section using the speed specification information and the location specification information transmitted from said display apparatus.

6. The image display system according to claim 4, wherein

said imaging apparatus further includes:

a date/time detection section configured to detect a current date and time and generate date/time information indicative of the current date and time detected, and the control section of said imaging apparatus allows the additional data to include the date/time information generated by the date/time detection section when the image data was taken,

the control section of said display apparatus performs a date/time specification process of setting date/time specification information for specifying a date and time, and, in the image request transmission process, transmits the speed specification information and the date/time specification information to said server apparatus, and

in the search/transmission control process, the control section of said server apparatus searches through the image data stored in the storage section using the speed specification information and the date/time specification information transmitted from said display apparatus.

7. The image display system according to claim 4, wherein the movable body is one of a person, a non-human creature, a first device that travels on the ground, a second device that travels on a sea surface, a third device that travels beneath the sea surface, a fourth device that travels through the air, and a fifth device that travels outside the atmosphere of the earth.

8. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display section configured to perform image display;

a communication section configured to perform data communication with an external server apparatus; and

a control section configured to perform a speed specification process of setting speed specification information based on a user input, an image request transmission process of transmitting the speed specification information to the server apparatus via said communication section to make a request for image data, and a display process of causing said communication section to receive the image data transmitted from the server apparatus in response to the image request transmission process and causing said display section to perform a display operation based on the received image data.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said control section further performs a location specification process of setting location specification information, and, in the image request transmission process, performs a process of transmitting the speed specification information and the location specification information to the server apparatus.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said control section further performs a map display process of causing said display section to display a map image and a location specification process of setting location specification information based on a user input for the map image, and, in the image request transmission process, performs a process of transmitting the speed specification information and the location specification information to the server apparatus.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the location specification information set by said control section in the location specification process is information of a latitude and longitude of a point specified for the map image.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said control section further performs a date/time specification process of setting date/time specification information for specifying a date and time, and, in the image request transmission process, performs a process of transmitting the speed specification information and the date/time specification information to the server apparatus.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said display section is configured to be arranged in front of an eye of a user to perform image display.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

an imaging section configured to take an image to obtain image data; and

a speed detection section configured to detect a moving speed and generate speed information indicative of the moving speed, wherein

said control section is capable of performing a transmission control process of causing the image data obtained by said imaging section and the speed information generated by said speed detection section to be transmitted to the server apparatus via said communication section.

15. A display method comprising:

setting speed specification information based on a user input;

transmitting the speed specification information to an external server apparatus to make a request for image data; and

receiving the image data transmitted from the server apparatus in response to the request, and performing display based on the received image data.

16. The display method according to claim 15, further comprising:

setting location specification information on an imaging apparatus, wherein

in said act of transmitting, a process of transmitting the speed specification information and the location specification information to the server apparatus is performed.

17. The display method according to claim 16, further comprising:

displaying a map image, wherein

in said act of setting location specification information, the location specification information is set based on a user input for the map image.

18. The display method according to claim 15, further comprising:

setting date/time specification information for specifying a date and time, wherein

in said act of transmitting, a process of transmitting the speed specification information and the date/time specification information to the server apparatus is performed.