Communication Terminal Panoramic Display Direction Indicator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional videoconference systems face challenges in effectively displaying and managing panoramic images across multiple sites, leading to difficulties in maintaining focus on relevant areas during meetings, as users struggle to determine which parts of the panoramic image are being displayed at other sites.
Innovation Solution
A communication terminal that generates spherical panoramic images and displays predetermined-area images, allowing users to calculate and display the direction of these areas based on received information, enabling seamless switching between different views within the same image.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If panoramic images are displayed across multiple sites in videoconference systems, then the field of view and coverage are improved, but users cannot easily determine which parts of the panoramic image are being displayed at other sites, leading to loss of spatial orientation information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary indicator element that mediates between the panoramic image content and the user's spatial orientation understanding. This indicator visually represents the correspondence between the displayed predetermined area and the entire panoramic image, allowing users to grasp spatial relationships without direct access to the full panoramic context.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a simplified copy or representation of the spatial relationship through the indicator element. Instead of displaying the entire panoramic image which would consume excessive bandwidth and display space, a copied visual indicator is transmitted to convey the essential spatial orientation information, reducing data transmission requirements while maintaining orientation awareness.
2Loss of information
If the entire panoramic image is transmitted and displayed at all sites, then complete information is provided, but network bandwidth consumption and display complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential information needed for spatial orientation from the complete panoramic image. Instead of transmitting and displaying the entire panoramic image data, the system extracts and transmits only the predetermined area of interest along with a simplified indicator element that conveys spatial relationship information, significantly reducing data transmission and display complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the panoramic image into the displayed predetermined area and the rest of the image. By dividing the complete panoramic image into segments and only transmitting/displaying the relevant predetermined area combined with an indicator, the system reduces overall data transmission requirements while maintaining the ability to convey spatial orientation through the indicator element.
3Loss of energy
If predetermined-area images are displayed to reduce data transmission, then network bandwidth is conserved, but users lose the ability to understand the spatial context and orientation of displayed areas
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary indicator element that bridges the gap between the limited predetermined-area image data and the user's need for spatial context. This indicator serves as a mediator that conveys spatial orientation information without requiring transmission of the complete panoramic image, thus conserving network bandwidth while restoring spatial context understanding.
4Ease of operation
If display direction information is added to indicate calculated directions, then user understanding of displayed areas is improved, but data transmission volume and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by adding display direction information specifically to the indicator element rather than to the entire image data. This localized addition of directional information provides enhanced user understanding of spatial relationships while minimizing the increase in overall data transmission volume, as only the indicator portion requires the additional directional attributes.
Data Source
AI summary
A communication terminal for displaying a predetermined-area image includes circuitry. The circuitry receives first predetermined-area information indicating a first predetermined area, the first predetermined-area information being transmitted from another communication terminal displaying a first predetermined-area image. The circuitry calculates a direction of the first predetermined area with respect to a second predetermined area in a whole image, based on the first predetermined-area information and second predetermined-area information. The second predetermined area is an area of a second predetermined-area image being displayed by the communication terminal. The circuitry controls a display to display the second predetermined-area image including display direction information indicating the calculated direction. The circuitry accepts designation of the display direction information. The circuitry controls the display to display the first predetermined-area image based on the first predetermined-area information, which is a source of calculation of the display direction information for which the designation is accepted.