Wide-View Image Sharing System with Point-of-View Area Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication systems struggle to efficiently share and manage wide-view images across multiple sites, leading to difficulties in coordinating remote communication and understanding different viewpoints.
Innovation Solution
A communication system that includes an image capturing apparatus for capturing wide-view images and an information processing system that transmits these images to multiple communication terminals. The system allows for on-demand capture of secondary wide-view images based on point-of-view information specified by users, enabling precise display of predetermined areas within the initial wide-view image.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single initial wide-view image is transmitted to multiple communication terminals, then image sharing across multiple sites is enabled, but users cannot easily focus on specific areas of interest or change viewpoints
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the initial wide-view image into multiple predetermined areas and associates each area with corresponding image capturing requests. When users need to focus on specific areas, the system captures new images only for those designated areas rather than capturing the entire wide-view image again, thereby reducing redundancy and managing complexity while enabling flexible viewpoint selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-dividing the wide-view image into multiple predetermined areas and preparing image capturing requests for each area. This allows users to quickly switch between different viewpoints without requiring real-time recapture of the entire scene, thus improving viewpoint flexibility while maintaining manageable system complexity.
2Measurement precision
If the system captures a second wide-view image in response to each image capturing request, then users can focus on specific areas, but the quantity of images to be managed increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by capturing new images only for specific predetermined areas where users need to focus, rather than capturing the entire wide-view image again. Each image capturing request is associated with a specific area, and the system captures images only for those areas, thereby improving area specification precision while minimizing the increase in total image quantity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses copying by creating new images only for the specific predetermined areas needed, rather than recapturing the entire original wide-view image. This selective copying approach allows users to access detailed views of specific areas while keeping the total number of images manageable by only duplicating necessary portions of the scene.
3Loss of information
If point-of-view information is associated with each captured image, then users can precisely designate areas of interest, but information management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges (combines) the point-of-view information with the corresponding image capturing requests and captured images in an integrated manner. By associating point-of-view information directly with the image data and using a unified management structure, the system maintains high viewpoint information accuracy while avoiding the complexity that would arise from separate, unconnected information management systems.
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AI summary
An information processing system includes circuitry that: transmits video including a first wide-view image captured by an image capturing apparatus to each of a plurality of communication terminals; transmits an image capturing request to the image capturing apparatus in response to receiving a request for capturing the second wide-view image from a first communication terminal of the plurality of communication terminals, the second wide-view image being captured by the image capturing apparatus in response to the image capturing request; and associates the second wide-view image received from the image capturing apparatus with point-of-view information indicating a predetermined area of the first wide-view image to be displayed, the predetermined area being designated at the first communication terminal.