Multi-Camera Content Sales System with Angle-Selective Composite Image Generation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content sales technologies lack the capability to sell images of subjects shot by multiple cameras in a flexible manner, allowing purchasers to select specific angles and purchase content accordingly.
Innovation Solution
A content sales device and method that includes an image storage unit, a center point setting unit, a composite image generator, and a sales controller. This system allows for the storage of image data from multiple cameras, setting a center point, generating composite image data based on images from adjacent cameras, and selling image or composite data to purchasers who select specific angles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple cameras are arranged to shoot from different angles, then the variety of viewable angles is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the 360-degree shooting area into multiple angular zones, each captured by individual cameras positioned at specific angles. This segmentation allows the multi-camera system to be systematically organized, with each camera responsible for a specific angular range, thereby managing complexity through structured division while achieving comprehensive angle coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The content sales server is designed with multi-functionality to handle diverse camera inputs, generate composite images from multiple sources, and serve various purchaser angle preferences through a unified platform. This universal design consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems for each camera angle into a single versatile device.
2Manufacturing precision
If composite image data is generated from multiple cameras, then the image quality is improved, but the processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and pre-storing individual camera images in the content sales server before a purchase request is made. When a purchaser selects an angle, the composite image is generated from these pre-prepared source images rather than capturing and processing in real-time, significantly reducing the perceived processing time while maintaining high image quality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If content is sold for every possible angle, then the adaptability to purchaser requests is improved, but the quantity of content to manage increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of creating and storing separate content files for every possible angle, the system uses the original camera images as source material and generates angle-specific composite images on-demand through digital copying and processing. This approach allows unlimited angle adaptability while managing content quantity efficiently, as the same source images serve multiple angle requests.
Data Source
AI summary
Each of a plurality of cameras is arranged to face the inside of a shooting area. An image storage unit stores image data generated by each camera. A composite image generator generates composite image data corresponding to image data obtained by shooting a subject from a position at a predetermined angle in any direction from a center point, based on image data generated by at least two cameras adjacent in a circumferential direction, with a predetermined direction from the center point taken as an angle of 0 degrees. A sales controller sells image data stored in the image storage unit or composite image data generated by the composite image generator as content when a purchaser of content selects an angle in any direction from the center point to purchase the content.