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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2018
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yosuke Otsubo, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Takahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Yuuya Takayama, Foster City, CA (US);
Kazuhiro Abe, Yokohama, JP;
Hideo Hoshuyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Marie Shoda, Gyoda, JP;
Sho Somiya, Yokohama, JP;
Tetsuya Koike, Yamato, JP;
Naoya Otani, Yokohama, JP;
NIKON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus that access first cameras capturing a first subject of a first area, and second cameras capturing a second subject of a second area, detects a viewing direction of a spectator group in the first subject on the basis of image data of the first subject captured by any one of first cameras, identifies a focus area in the second area that is focused on by the spectator group on the basis of the viewing direction of the spectator group, identifies a focus subject, focused on by the spectator group, that is present in the focus area on the basis of image data of the second subject captured by each of the second cameras, determines a specific second camera to be a transmission source of image data from among the second cameras on the basis of the focus subject, and transmits image data from the specific second camera.