US 7,479,987 B2 · Image providing service system

Abstract

To take a ceremonial photograph including a user himself/herself in a theme park or the like, the user must hand to a third person a camera to ask the photographing. There is a system which can take a picture of a user when the user is in a predetermined position, but the user cannot confirm the picture when the user is being photographed. For the purposes, an image service system includes plural cameras connected to a network, an administration server for accumulating or distributing images taken by the cameras, and a client terminal for displaying the images taken by the cameras. The position of the user and the positions of surrounding cameras located within a predetermined distance from the client terminal are detected automatically. Images including the user can be displayed on the terminal.

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An image service system comprising:

a plurality of cameras connected to a network;
and
an administration server connected to said plurality of cameras and a client terminal capable of displaying images taken by said cameras, said administration server accumulating said images taken up by said cameras and/or distributing said images to said client terminal;
wherein said administration server acquires position information of a user holding said client terminal based on communication with said client terminal, detects said cameras within a predetermined distance from said user based on said position information, selects a camera taking images including said user, and provides said images including said user from the selected camera to said client terminal.

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An image service system comprising:

a plurality of cameras connected to a network;
and
an administration server connected to said plurality of cameras and a client terminal capable of displaying images taken by said cameras, said administration server accumulating said images taken up by said cameras and/or distributing said images to said client terminal;
wherein said administration server acquires real-time position information of a user holding said client terminal based on communication with said client terminal, detects said cameras within a predetermined distance from said user based on said position information, selects a camera taking real-time images including said user, and provides said real-time images including said user from the selected camera to said client terminal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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