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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Tsuruta, Tokyo, JP;
Masamichi Asukai, Kanagawa, JP;
Taiji Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Kan Ebisawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Nozomu Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Akinobu Sugino, Kanagawa, JP;
Hidehiko Sekizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yonetaro Totsuka, Chiba, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention makes it possible to let a user arbitrarily and easily see any other scene than himself or herself in his or her view (the scene seen from any other moving body than him or her). In a display device (an image pickup and display deviceor a display device), specification information is generated to specify a specific image pickup device of outer image pickup devices (the image pickup and display deviceor and image pickup device), and image data are received from the image pickup device specified by the specification information and are displayed. As an outer image pickup device, for example, and image pickup device wore by some other person, image pickup devices set at a car, an electric train, and the like, or further mage pickup devices set at an animal, a bird, and the like are supposed. Image data picked up by these image pickup devices are transmitted to the display side and the image display is carried out in the display device. Thus, a user of the display device can see images of viewing scenes watched by other people, for example, images of viewing scenes seen from a car, an electric train, and the like, or images of viewing scenes seen from an animal, a bird, and the like.