Image server, image acquisition device, and image display terminal

An image server comprising:

• a storing medium for storing a picked image of surroundings of a vehicle, picked up with a camera mounted on the vehicle, and image pickup information of the picked image;
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• a delivering means that delivers a picked image stored on the storing medium to an image display terminal, wherein:
• the image pickup information includes information about an image pickup point at which the picked image was picked up, and
• the delivering means delivers to the image display terminal one selected from among the picked images stored on the storing medium with respect to each of segments of zones to which the image pickup points of those picked images belong based on the image pickup information and a predetermined selection condition.

An image server comprising:

• a storing medium for storing a picked image of surroundings of a vehicle, picked up with a camera mounted on the vehicle, and an image pickup information of the picked image;
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• a delivering means that stores the inputted picked image and image pickup information of the picked image on the storing medium, and delivers a picked image stored on the storing medium to an image display terminal, wherein:
• the image pickup information includes information about the image pickup point identified by a GPS sensor mounted on a vehicle that picked up the picked image, and
• the delivering means corrects information about the image pickup point when the information about the image pickup point indicates that the image pickup point is considered not to have been properly identified by the GPS sensor.

An image display terminal comprising:

• a receiving means that receives a picked image and image pickup information delivered from an image server that delivers the picked image of surroundings of a vehicle, picked up with a camera mounted on the vehicle, and the image pickup information of the picked image;
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• a display controlling means that causes a displaying means to display the received picked image, wherein:
• the image pickup information includes information about an image pickup point at which the picked image was picked up, and
• upon receiving an instruction to advance an image in a certain direction, the display controlling means searches for picked images picked up in a search region that is within a predetermined direction range including the certain direction and in which a distance from a point at which the picked image presently displayed on the displaying means was picked up is within a predetermined range, and selects the picked image to be displayed next on the displaying means from among found picked images in accordance with a predetermined selection rule.

An image display terminal comprising:

• a receiving means that receives a picked image and image pickup information delivered from an image server that delivers the picked image of surroundings of a vehicle, picked up with a camera mounted on the vehicle, and the image pickup information of the picked image;
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• a display controlling means that causes a displaying means to display the received picked image, wherein:
• the image pickup information includes information about an inclination at which the vehicle was when the picked image was picked up, and
• based on the information about inclination, the display controlling means corrects the picked image so as to lessen an inclination of buildings in the picked image due to the inclination, and causes the displaying means to display the picked image corrected.