Monitoring system for a photography unit, monitoring method, computer program, and storage medium

An apparatus comprising:

• a controller unit adapted to access photographic data, the photographic data including a panorama picture;
• and
• a compression unit, coupled to the controller unit, adapted to compress the photographic data, to produce compressed picture data,
• wherein the controller unit identifies an arbitrary point from either the photographic data or the compressed picture data,
• wherein the controller unit successively reads the photographic data and the compressed picture data in a sequence such that a still frame picture at the indicated arbitrary point is read from one of the photographic data and the compressed picture data each time each of the photographic data and the compressed picture data is read.

An apparatus comprising:

• a controller unit adapted to access photographic data, the photographic data including a panorama picture;
• and
• a compression unit, coupled to the controller unit, adapted to compress the photographic data, to produce compressed picture data,
• wherein the controller unit identifies an arbitrary point from either the photographic data or the compressed picture data,
• wherein the controller unit designates a picture to start a reading operation and a picture to end the reading operation,
• wherein only a still frame picture at the indicated arbitrary point is read from the photographic data and the compressed picture data each time each of the picture data and the compressed picture data is read.

A method apparatus comprising:

• accessing photographic data, the photographic data including a panorama picture;
• and
• compressing the photographic data, to produce compressed picture data,
• identifying an arbitrary point from either the photographic data or the compressed picture data,
• successively reading the photographic data and the compressed picture data in a sequence such that a still frame picture at the indicated arbitrary point is read from one of the photographic data and the compressed picture data each time each of the photographic data and the compressed picture data is read.