Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takeshi Homma

Kenichiro Morita

Hidekuni Annaka

Hiroshi Hinohara

Takafumi Takeda

Hideki Shiro

Shigeru Nakamura

Yuichi Kawasaki

Takashi Hasegawa

Mayu Hakata

Yohhei Ohmura

Takuya Soneda

Atsushi Miyamoto

Masashi Ogasawara

Tomonori Aikawa

Daisuke Saitoh

Takahiro Asai

Takeshi Horiuchi

Kyoya Sawada

Tatsuya Nagase

Hiroyuki Kanda

Yoichiro Matsuno

Takeshi Fujita

Yohei Yamamoto

Kaoru Maeda

Yuya Akimoto

Kazunobu Takahashi

Junpei Mikami

Shiori Ueda

A communication terminal includes circuitry that: stores first position information of an image capturing apparatus in a memory, the first position information indicating a position of the image capturing apparatus when installed in a first time period; receives a wide-view image captured by the image capturing apparatus in a second time period and second position information of the image capturing apparatus via a network, the second position information indicating a position of the image capturing apparatus when installed in the second time period; corrects the wide-view image captured in the second time period, based on a difference between the first position information and the second position information; and causes a display to display the corrected wide-view image.

Communication terminal, communication system, display method, and non-transitory recording medium

A display terminal for playing back a predetermined area of a wide-view image that is recorded, includes: a display to display a first display area and a second display area, the first display area being related to a first recording duration in which a speech is made when a first predetermined area of the wide-view image is being displayed by a first display terminal, the second display area being related to a second recording duration in which a speech is made when a second predetermined area of the wide-view image is being displayed by the first display terminal; and circuitry that receives selection of the second display area during display of a first predetermined-area image, and controls the display to display a second predetermined-area image in response to receipt of selection of the second display area.

Display terminal, communication system, and display method

An image communication system includes a first communication terminal including first circuitry and a second communication terminal including second circuitry. The first circuitry of the first communication terminal transmits, to the second communication terminal, first image data representing a first image and second image data representing a second image. The first circuitry of the first communication terminal transmits, to the second communication terminal, position information indicating a predetermined position on the first image. The second circuitry of the second communication terminal combines, based on the position information, the second image with the first image at the predetermined position on the first image to generate a combined image. The second circuitry of the second communication terminal displays, on a display, the combined image.

Communication terminal, image communication system, and display control method

A display terminal comprising circuitry that displays a first predetermined-area image on a display screen, the first predetermined-area image representing a predetermined area in a first wide-view image having been captured at a given location on a first date and time; and displays a second predetermined-area image on the display screen, the second predetermined-area image being related to the predetermined area in a second wide-view image, the second wide-view image having captured at the given location on a second date and time different from the first date and time.

A management system for managing an event executed between a communication terminal used by a user and one or more devices is provided. The management system includes circuitry to receive an operation request for a device of the one or more devices from the communication terminal. The circuitry generates operation information associated with operation identification information and access information. The operation identification information identifies a device operation corresponding to the operation request. The access information is associated with the user and used to access external storage. The circuitry uploads data acquired by the device according to the device operation to the external storage using the access information associated with the generated operation information.

Management system, communication system, and information processing method

A system and a method, each of which: transmits video including a wide-view image having a wide angle of view to a communication terminal; and stores, in a predetermined storage destination, the wide-view image received from an image capturing apparatus that captures the wide-view image in response to an image capturing request, in association with point-of-view information for specifying a predetermined area of the wide-view image to be displayed, the predetermined area being designated at the communication terminal.

Information processing system, communication system, and image transmission method

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.

Information processing system, communication system, and image sharing method

A display terminal includes: circuitry that receives an instruction to play back a wide-view image having a wide angle of view, the wide-view image being a moving image and having been recorded for distribution to a communication terminal; and in response to the instruction to play back the wide-view image, controls a display to display a predetermined-area image representing a predetermined area of the wide-view image, based on point-of-view information for specifying the predetermined area of the wide-view image being having been distributed and displayed at the communication terminal.

Display terminal, displaying method, and recording medium

A display terminal includes circuitry that: displays a predetermined-area moving image; receives designation of a first object visible in a first predetermined-area moving image being a predetermined-area moving image in a first display area and representing a first predetermined area of the wide-view moving image; receives designation of a second object visible in a second predetermined-area moving image being a predetermined-area moving image in a second display area and representing a second predetermined area of the wide-view moving image; displays the first predetermined-area moving image such that movement of the first object is tracked to make the first object continuously visible in the first predetermined-area moving image within the first display area; and displays the second predetermined-area moving image such that movement of the second object is tracked to make the second object continuously visible in the second predetermined-area moving image within the second display area.

Display terminal, communication system, and non-transitory recording medium

A communication management system manages a session in which a plurality of terminal apparatuses shares a stroke image. The communication management system includes circuitry configured to: manage stroke information including a plurality of pieces of stroke data representing the stroke image; receive, from a first terminal apparatus, group operation information for designating one or more pieces of stroke data, which are operation targets, from among the plurality of pieces of stroke data; and restrict, based on the group operation information, an operation regarding the one or more pieces of stroke data by a second terminal apparatus, which is different from the first terminal apparatus.

Communication management system, communication system, communication management device, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

A communication system includes a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal that shares a plurality of images with the first communication terminal. The first communication terminal includes first circuitry that receives a change of a display order of the plurality of images displayed on a display of the first communication terminal; and transmit information regarding the changed display order of the plurality of images to the second communication terminal. The second communication terminal includes second circuitry to change the display order of the plurality of images displayed on a display of the second communication terminal in accordance with the information regarding the display order of the plurality of images received from the first communication terminal. A method for communicating, performed by a communication terminal, the communication terminal, and a non-transitory recording medium executing the method for communicating are provided.

Communication system, method for communicating to share images, and non-transitory recording medium

A management system includes circuitry to receive an operation request for a specific device of one or more devices from a communication terminal used by a user for who user authentication has been successfully performed by a management system. The one or more devices and the communication terminal are communicating with each other to execute an event managed by the management system. The circuitry stores, in a memory, operation identification information and access information in association with each other. The operation identification information identifies a device operation associated with the operation request. The access information is associated with the user and used to access external storage. The circuitry uploads data acquired by the specific device according to the device operation corresponding to the operation identification information to the external storage using the access information associated with the operation identification information.

Management system, communication system, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium

An image capturing device includes an imaging device and circuitry. The imaging device captures an image. The circuitry defines a point of interest in the image, converts the defined point of interest in accordance with attitude information of the image capturing device, and cuts out a viewable area from the image. The viewable area includes the converted point of interest.

Omnidirectional camera system with improved point of interest selection

A communication management apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory stores a hierarchical data structure in which each page of a plurality of pages forming a display screen shared by a plurality of communication terminals is associated with one or more objects included in the each page. The circuitry receives, from one communication terminal of the plurality of communication terminals, an operation request that requests an operation on a particular object of the one or more objects. When editing of the particular object and editing of data in a lower layer associated with a higher layer of the particular object are both allowed, the circuitry transmits a success notification to the one communication terminal to notify success of the operation on the particular object.

Communication management apparatus, communication system, communication method, and non-transitory recording medium

A communication terminal, a system, a method, and a control program stored in a non-transitory recording medium for controlling capturing of an image, each of which displays, on a display of the communication terminal, an image based on image data to be shared with a counterpart communication terminal; receives an instruction to prohibit capturing of a screen that includes the image based on the image data; and transmits, from the communication terminal to the counterpart communication terminal, information related to the instruction to prohibit capturing of the screen.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takeshi Homma