- Patent Title: Image providing apparatus, image display device, imaging system, image display system, and image providing method in which composite image data is generated using auxiliary image data generated by at least one auxiliary imaging unit
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Application No.: US14699331Application Date: 2015-04-29
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Publication No.: US09699366B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Akinobu Sato , Saori Matsumoto , Keito Fukushima , Hiroki Amino , Takashi Hamada , Osamu Nonaka
- Applicant: Olympus Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Straub & Pokotylo
- Agent John C. Pokotylo
- Priority: JP2014-095356 20140502
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N5/341 ; H04N5/77 ; H04N9/79 ; H04N101/00 ; H04N5/247 ; H04N5/272

Abstract:
An image providing apparatus includes: a plurality of auxiliary imaging units that have shooting ranges partially overlapping one another, and each of which images a subject to generate auxiliary image data; a provider communication unit; a provider communication control unit that receives, from the portable device, via the provider communication unit, transmission request information requesting the image providing apparatus to transmit composite image data; and an image synthesizing unit that generates, based on the transmission request information, composite image data by combining the auxiliary image data respectively generated by two or more of the plurality of auxiliary imaging units. The provider communication control unit transmits, via the provider communication unit, the composite image data to the portable device.
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