Display Apparatus for External Moving Body Image Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional technologies lack the ability to allow users to easily access and view visual sights from perspectives other than their own, such as those seen by moving bodies like humans, animals, or vehicles, without the need for direct line of sight or physical proximity.
Innovation Solution
An image display system comprising a display apparatus and an image pickup apparatus attached to a moving body, which communicates to transmit and receive image data, allowing users to specify and view images from external image pickup apparatuses via a server, enabling the display of sights from various moving bodies and locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If image pickup apparatuses are attached to multiple moving bodies (humans, animals, vehicles), then the quantity of available viewpoints and visual information increases, but the device complexity and system management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces a server apparatus as an intermediary between multiple image pickup apparatuses and display terminals. The server receives image data from various image pickup apparatuses attached to different moving bodies, manages the data centrally, and distributes it to appropriate terminals. This intermediary structure simplifies the overall system by centralizing management functions and reducing the complexity of direct peer-to-peer connections between numerous devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distinct functional modules: image pickup apparatuses attached to various moving bodies, a central server apparatus for data management, and display terminals for viewing. This segmentation allows each component to operate relatively independently, with standardized interfaces for data transmission and reception, thereby reducing the complexity of managing diverse moving bodies and their associated image pickup devices.
2Ease of operation
If users can access images from any moving body at any location, then the ease of operation and visual access improve, but the loss of time for image transmission and data communication increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server apparatus performs preliminary actions by continuously receiving and buffering image data from multiple image pickup apparatuses before requests are made. When a user at a display terminal wants to view images from a specific moving body, the pre-acquired images can be immediately transmitted without waiting for real-time capture, thereby reducing transmission time while maintaining ease of access to any location's visual information.
Solution Approach 2:
The server apparatus operates continuously, maintaining constant communication with image pickup apparatuses to receive image data streams. This continuous action ensures that image data is always ready for transmission to display terminals, eliminating delays that would occur with intermittent data collection. The continuous useful action of the server keeps the system ready for immediate image delivery upon user request.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system allows specification and selection of particular image pickup apparatuses, then the adaptability and versatility of the system improve, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring the right apparatus increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the server apparatus provides information about available image pickup apparatuses and their current status to display terminals. Users can receive feedback about which apparatuses are available, their locations, and their operational state, making the specification process easier. The feedback loop between server and terminals streamlines the detection and selection of appropriate apparatuses for user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces complex mechanical or manual methods of identifying and selecting image pickup apparatuses with automated communication-based identification systems. The server apparatus uses data communication protocols to manage and transmit identification information about apparatuses, replacing what would otherwise be complex manual detection and measurement processes with automated digital identification and selection mechanisms.
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AI summary
The present invention makes it possible to let a user arbitrarily and easily see any other scene than himself or herself in his or her view (the scene seen from any other moving body than him or her). In a display device (an image pickup and display device 1 or a display device 40), specification information is generated to specify a specific image pickup device of outer image pickup devices (the image pickup and display device 1 or and image pickup device 30), and image data are received from the image pickup device specified by the specification information and are displayed. As an outer image pickup device, for example, and image pickup device wore by some other person, image pickup devices set at a car, an electric train, and the like, or further mage pickup devices set at an animal, a bird, and the like are supposed. Image data picked up by these image pickup devices are transmitted to the display side and the image display is carried out in the display device. Thus, a user of the display device can see images of viewing scenes watched by other people, for example, images of viewing scenes seen from a car, an electric train, and the like, or images of viewing scenes seen from an animal, a bird, and the like.