JP2003150619A - Image storage and display system and image display terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To supply a user with a system and a display device with which a virtual image matched with a terminal position and a terminal direction of an image display terminal held by the user can be easily browsed. SOLUTION: Position dependency information including an image is stored in a server on a network. Then, a position and direction acquisition means is provided in the image display terminal of the user, the position dependency information is acquired by connecting a network if necessary and the image matched with the position and direction of the image display terminal is composited and displayed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for displaying on a terminal information (position-dependent information) that includes an image and is stored in association with information relating to the position.

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2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, images are stored in various servers that display images on terminals on a network, and a user can browse and download these images as needed. . Taking an image of a tourist spot as an example, even if you do not go to the tourist spot of that image, you can capture the photo image of the tourist spot and overlay your own photo image on the relevant photo image, as if you were in the local reality It was possible to create. However, in a virtual world, it should be fun from the viewpoint of entertainment, especially if you set a position-dependent image in a special place, including its direction, and appear. For example, in some amusement parks such as theme parks with the theme of dinosaurs, such services are realized by wearing special glasses-type displays, but they are not realized anytime, anywhere.

[0003]

As described above, a system or an image is provided in which a virtual image is arranged in a specific space, and when the user goes to this specific space, the virtual image can be called up. A display device was desired.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the inventors of the present invention have made the following measures as a result of earnest research. That is, in the image storage and display system in which the position-dependent information including the image is stored in the server on the network and the above-mentioned image is displayed by the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information including at least the image and the image position and the image direction of the image. Position information accumulating means for accumulating information in a server on the network, b) position and direction obtaining means for obtaining the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, and c) access for connecting the image display terminal to the above server via the network. And (d) referring to the terminal position and the terminal direction acquired in b) and the image position and the image direction included in the position dependent information, and selecting the corresponding position dependent information from the position dependent information storage means. The image included in the position-dependent information selected in the selection means, e) d) is the above-mentioned terminal position, terminal direction, and the above-mentioned image position. And it calculates the image direction, adopting the configuration of the means of display means for displaying on the image display terminal.

The above-mentioned image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the above-mentioned image stored in the image storage means on the network and the image acquired by the real-image pickup means are A more effective image can be acquired by synchronizing the position and direction and displaying them in an overlapping manner.

Further, in the above-mentioned position-dependent information, if at least one of the image position, the image direction, and the image changes with time, a unique image can be displayed with time.

By providing storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or the server on the network, it becomes possible to enjoy the image including the virtual image later.

It is more effective if voice is added to the position-dependent information. Further, when the above-mentioned position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the above-mentioned image display terminal, it is convenient if it is connected by wireless communication. The above-mentioned position-dependent information is provided with display valid time information, and if the image cannot be displayed outside the above-mentioned display valid time, the range of application is further expanded.

Next, the image display terminal used in this system will be described. In the image display terminal, a) a position / direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and the terminal direction of the image display terminal, b) an access means for connecting this image display terminal to a server in which position-dependent information is stored via a network, c ) Position-dependent information acquisition means for fetching from the network position-dependent information including an image, an image position, and an image direction based on the terminal position and the terminal direction acquired in a), and d) included in the position-dependent information acquired in c). It is sufficient to provide image display means for displaying the image by calculating the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal and the image position and image direction of the image to be displayed.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. An effective image can be obtained by superimposing and displaying in a position-synchronized manner.

Further, in the position-dependent information described above, if at least one of the image position, the image direction, and the image changes with time, a unique image can be displayed on this image display terminal depending on time.

The above-mentioned displayed image may be stored in a memory provided in the image display terminal or a server on a network connectable by a wireless line or the like.

Then, the above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a voice reproducing means, and voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information,
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. Then, when the above-mentioned position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the above-mentioned image display terminal, it may be connected by wireless communication.

Display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if the image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.

Next, a slightly simple case will be described. That is, in the above description, the system has the image having the position and the direction, but this time, the image has the position data. That is, in an image storage and display system in which position-dependent information including an image is stored in a server on a network and the above-mentioned image is displayed by an image display terminal, a) position-dependent information including at least the image and the image position of this image is stored in the network. Position-dependent information storage means to be stored in the above server, b) Position acquisition means to acquire the terminal position of the image display terminal, c) Access means to connect this image display terminal to the server via the network, d) b) The position-dependent information selecting means for selecting the corresponding position-dependent information from the above-mentioned position-dependent information storage means by referring to the terminal position acquired in step 1 and the image position included in the position-dependent information, and the position dependence selected in e) d). It is a means called display means for calculating the terminal position and the image position of the image included in the information and displaying the image on the image display terminal. It only has to be configured.

The above-mentioned image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the above-mentioned image stored in the image storage means on the above-mentioned network and the image acquired by the real-image pickup means are If the positions are synchronized and superimposed and displayed, a more effective image can be acquired.

Further, the position-dependent information described above makes it possible to display a unique image depending on time if at least one of the image position and the image changes depending on time.

If a storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or the server on the network is provided, the image including the virtual image can be enjoyed later.

It is more effective if voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information. Further, when the above-mentioned position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the above-mentioned image display terminal, it is convenient if it is connected by wireless communication. The above-mentioned position-dependent information is provided with display valid time information, and if the image cannot be displayed outside the above-mentioned display valid time, the range of application is further expanded.

In the image display terminal, a) a position / direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position of this image display terminal, b) an access means for connecting this image display terminal to a position-dependent information storage server on the network, c) a) The position-dependent information acquisition means for acquiring the image and the position-dependent information including the image position from the network based on the terminal position acquired in step d). The image included in the position-dependent information acquired in step c) is used as the terminal of the image display terminal. Calculate the position and the above-mentioned image position,
Image display means for displaying an image may be provided.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. An effective image can be obtained if the positions are synchronized and displayed in a superimposed manner.

Further, in the above-mentioned position-dependent information, if at least one of the image position and the image changes with time, a unique image can be displayed with time.

The above-mentioned displayed images may be stored in a memory provided in the image display terminal or a server on a network connectable by a wireless line or the like.

Then, the above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a voice reproducing means, and voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information,
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. Then, when the above-mentioned position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the above-mentioned image display terminal, it may be connected by wireless communication.

Display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if the image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.

Next, a slightly simple case will be described. That is, in the above description, the system has only the position of the image and the display terminal has only the terminal position acquisition means, but this time the image has only the position data and the display terminal has the position direction acquisition means. is there. That is, in an image storage / display system in which position-dependent information including an image is stored in a server on a network and the above-mentioned image is displayed by an image display terminal, a) at least the position-dependent information including the image and the image position of this image is stored in the above-mentioned network. Position-dependent information storage means stored in the above server, b) Position direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, c) Access means for connecting this image display terminal to the above-mentioned server via a network, d) Position-dependent information selection for selecting corresponding position-dependent information from the above-mentioned position-dependent information storage means by referring to the terminal position and terminal direction acquired in b) and the image position and image direction included in the above-mentioned position-dependent information Means, e) The image included in the position-dependent information selected in d) is used as the terminal position, the terminal direction, and the image position. And, employing a system composed of a means of display means for displaying on the image display terminal.

The above-mentioned image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the above-mentioned image stored in the image storage means on the above-mentioned network and the image acquired by the real-image pickup means are A more effective image can be acquired by synchronizing the position and direction and displaying them in an overlapping manner.

The above position-dependent information makes it possible to display a unique image depending on time if at least one of the image position and the image changes depending on time.

By providing a storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or the server on the network, it becomes possible to enjoy the image including the virtual image later.

It is more effective if voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information. Further, when the above-mentioned position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the above-mentioned image display terminal, it is convenient if it is connected by wireless communication. The above-mentioned position-dependent information is provided with display valid time information, and if the image cannot be displayed outside the above-mentioned display valid time, the range of application is further expanded.

In the image display terminal, a) a position / direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and the terminal direction of the above-mentioned image display terminal, b) an access means for connecting this image display terminal and the position-dependent information storage server via a network, c) Position-dependent position-dependent information acquisition means for taking in position-dependent information including a position based on the acquired position from the network, d) The above-described image included in the acquired position-dependent information is displayed on the image display terminal. It suffices to provide an image display means for calculating the position direction and displaying the image.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. It is possible to obtain an effective image by synchronizing the position and direction with and superimposing them.

The position-dependent information described above makes it possible to display a unique image depending on time if at least one of the image position and the image changes depending on time.

The above-described displayed image may be stored in a memory provided in the image display terminal or a server connectable via a network by a wireless line or the like.

Then, the above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a voice reproducing means, and voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information,
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. Then, when the above-mentioned position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the above-mentioned image display terminal, it may be connected by wireless communication.

Display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if the image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.

In the above, the image is acquired by connecting to the server on the network depending on the position of the image display terminal, but this is so-called pull image distribution. Next, the case of push will be described. An image storage / display system in which position-dependent information including images is stored in position-dependent information storage means, and an image is displayed by an image display terminal different from the position-dependent information storage means described above: a) At least the image position and the image direction of the image. Position-dependent information storage means for storing position-dependent information including images, b) Position-direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and terminal direction of this image display terminal, and c) From the position-dependent information storage means to the above-mentioned image display terminal. Communication means for transmitting position-dependent information to the device, d) calculating the terminal position and terminal direction of the above-mentioned image display terminal, and the image position and image direction of the above-mentioned image based on the image included in the position-dependent information transmitted by this communication means. However, a system including display means for displaying may be adopted.

The above-mentioned image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the above-mentioned image stored in the image storage means on the above-mentioned network and the image acquired by the real-image pickup means are A more effective image can be acquired by synchronizing the position and direction and displaying them in an overlapping manner.

With the position-dependent information described above, if at least one of the image position, the image direction, and the image changes with time, a unique image can be acquired with time.

If a storage means for storing the above-mentioned displayed image in the above-mentioned image display terminal or the above-mentioned server on the network is provided, the image including the virtual image can be enjoyed later.

It is more effective if voice is added to the position-dependent information. When accessing the position-dependent information storage means from the image display terminal, it may be connected by wireless communication such as at least one short-range communication means selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN, and optical communication. The above-mentioned position-dependent information is provided with display valid time information, and if the image cannot be displayed outside the above-mentioned display valid time, the range of application is further expanded.

In the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information receiving means for receiving position-dependent information including an image, an image position and an image direction from the position-dependent information storage means, and b) a terminal position and a terminal direction of this image display terminal. An image included in the position-dependent information received in c) a), which calculates the terminal position of the image display terminal, the terminal direction, the image position and the image direction, and displays the image. A device having a display means as a component was adopted.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. An effective image can be obtained by superimposing and displaying in a position-synchronized manner.

If at least one of the image position, the image direction, and the image is changed with time in the above-mentioned position-dependent information, a unique image can be displayed depending on the time.

A connecting means for connecting the above-mentioned displayed image to the network by a memory provided in the image display terminal or a wireless line may be provided in the image display terminal and stored in a server on the network.

Then, the above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a voice reproducing means, and voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information,
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. When the position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the image display terminal, it may be connected by at least one short-range wireless communication selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN and optical communication.

Display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if the image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.

With the pull delivery system configuration, a simple configuration in which only the image position and the terminal position are displayed is possible. That is, in the image storage display system in which the position-dependent information including the image is stored in the position-dependent information storage means, and the image is displayed by the image display terminal different from the above-mentioned image storage means, a)
Position-dependent information storage means for storing at least the image position of the image and position-dependent information including the image, b) position acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position of the image display terminal, and c) the position-dependent information storage means of a) described above. Communication means for transmitting the position-dependent information to the image display terminal, d) calculating the terminal position of the image display terminal and the image position for the image included in the position-dependent information transmitted by the communication means, and the image display terminal We adopted a system consisting of a means called "display means".

The above-mentioned image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the above-mentioned image stored in the image storage means on the network and the image acquired by the real-image pickup means are If the positions are synchronized and superimposed and displayed, a more effective image can be acquired.

If at least one of the image position and the image changes with time in the position-dependent information, a unique image can be displayed according to time.

By providing a storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or the server on the network, it becomes possible to enjoy the image including the virtual image later.

It is more effective if voice is added to the position-dependent information. When accessing the position-dependent information storage means from the image display terminal, it is convenient if it is connected by at least one short-range wireless communication selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN, and optical communication. The above-mentioned position-dependent information is provided with display valid time information, and if the image cannot be displayed outside the above-mentioned display valid time, the range of application is further expanded.

In the image display terminal, a) receiving means for receiving at least the image position of the image to be displayed and position-dependent information including the image from the position-dependent information storage means, and b) position acquisition for acquiring the terminal position of this image display terminal. Means, c) The image included in the position-dependent information received in a) may be employed as a component having image display means for calculating the terminal position of the image display terminal and the above-mentioned image position and displaying the image. .

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. An effective image can be obtained if the positions are synchronized and displayed in a superimposed manner.

If the position-dependent information is such that at least one of the image position and the image changes depending on time, a unique image can be displayed depending on time.

The above-mentioned displayed image may be stored in a memory provided in the image display terminal or a server on a network connectable to the network by a wireless line or the like.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a voice reproducing means, and voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information.
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. When the position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the image display terminal, it may be connected by at least one short-range wireless communication selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN and optical communication.

Display valid time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if the image cannot be displayed outside the display valid time.

With the pull delivery system configuration, a slightly simpler configuration is possible in which the image position, the terminal position, and the terminal direction are taken into consideration for display. That is, in an image storage / display system in which position-dependent information including an image is stored in the position-dependent information storage means and an image is displayed by an image display terminal different from the above-mentioned image storage means, a) at least an image position of the image and a position including the image Position-dependent information storage means for storing dependence information, b) Position-direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, c) Position-dependence information for the image display terminal from the position-dependent information storage means. Communication means for transmitting information, d) Comprised of display means for calculating the image position of the image display terminal, the terminal direction of the image included in the position dependent information, and the image position of the image, and displaying the image on the image display terminal. The system adopted is adopted.

The above-mentioned image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the above-mentioned image stored in the image storage means on the network and the image acquired by the real-image pickup means are A more effective image can be acquired by synchronizing the position and direction and displaying them in an overlapping manner.

If at least one of the image position and the image is changed depending on time, a unique image can be displayed depending on time.

If a storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or the server on the network is provided, the image including the virtual image can be enjoyed later.

It is more effective if a voice is added to the position-dependent information described above. When accessing the position-dependent information storage means from the image display terminal, it is convenient if it is connected by at least one short-range wireless communication selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN, and optical communication. The above-mentioned position-dependent information is provided with display valid time information, and if the image cannot be displayed outside the above-mentioned display valid time, the range of application is further expanded.

In the image display terminal, a) receiving means for receiving at least the image and the position dependent information including the image position of this image from the position dependent information storage means, and b) acquiring the terminal position and the terminal direction of this image display terminal. Position / direction acquisition means, c) The image included in the position-dependent information received in a) is operated to calculate the terminal position and terminal direction of the above-mentioned image display terminal and the above-mentioned image position, and the image display means for displaying the image is a constituent element. The one that has is adopted.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. An effective image can be obtained by superimposing and displaying in a position-synchronized manner.

If at least one of the image position and the image changes with time in the position-dependent information described above, a unique image can be displayed depending on time.

The above-mentioned displayed image may be stored in a memory provided in the image display terminal or a server connectable to the network by a wireless line or the like.

Then, the above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a sound reproducing means, and a sound is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information,
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. When the position-dependent information storage means is accessed from the image display terminal, it may be connected by at least one short-range wireless communication selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN and optical communication.

Display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if the image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.

The position-dependent information is stored outside the image display terminal in the above, but a case where the position-dependent information is stored in the image display terminal will be described next. That is, in the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information storage means for storing position-dependent information including at least an image, an image position, and an image direction, and b) a position-direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and the terminal direction of this image display terminal. , C) position-dependent information retrieval and extraction means for retrieving and extracting position-dependent information from the position-dependent information accumulating means with reference to the terminal position, the terminal direction, the image position, and the image direction acquired in b), d) c The image display means for calculating and displaying the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, the image position and the image direction, and displaying the image included in the position-dependent information retrieved and extracted in step 1) is adopted.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the above-mentioned position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. An effective image can be obtained by superimposing and displaying in a position-synchronized manner.

If at least one of the image position, the image direction, and the image changes with time in the position-dependent information, a unique image can be displayed depending on time.

The above-mentioned displayed image may be stored in a memory provided in the image display terminal or a server connectable to the network by a wireless line or the like.

Then, the above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a sound reproducing means, and a sound is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information,
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. The position-dependent information storage means may be a solid-state memory that can be attached to and detached from the image display terminal.

Display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if the image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.

Here, it is also possible to employ a simple terminal that displays by considering only the image position and the terminal position. That is, in the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information storage means for storing at least the image position and position-dependent information including the image, b) position acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position of this image display terminal, and c) acquired by b). Position-dependent information retrieval and extraction means for retrieving and extracting position-dependent information from the position-dependent information accumulating means with reference to the terminal position and the image position, and the image included in the position-dependent information retrieved and extracted by d) c). In addition, a device having an image display means for calculating the terminal position and the image position and displaying on the image display terminal is adopted.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. An effective image can be obtained if the positions are synchronized and displayed in a superimposed manner.

If the position-dependent information is such that at least one of the image position and the image changes with time, a unique image can be displayed depending on the time.

The above-mentioned displayed image may be stored in a memory provided in the image display terminal or a server which can be network-connected by a wireless line or the like.

Then, the above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a voice reproducing means, and voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information,
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. The position-dependent information storage means may be a solid-state memory that can be attached to and detached from the image display terminal.

Display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if the image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.

A slightly simpler terminal considering the terminal position, the terminal direction, and the image position is also possible. That is, in the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information storage means for storing position-dependent information including at least an image and an image position, b) position-direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and terminal direction of this image display terminal, c) The position-dependent information retrieval and extraction unit that retrieves and extracts the position-dependent information from the position-dependent information storage unit by referring to the terminal position, the terminal direction, and the image position acquired in b), and d) c). It is possible to employ one having an image display means for calculating the terminal position, the terminal direction, and the image position of the image display terminal, and displaying the image included in the position-dependent information.

The above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a real image pickup means for picking up an image by a CCD camera or the like, and the above-mentioned image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the above-mentioned real-image pickup means. An effective image can be obtained by superimposing and displaying in a position-synchronized manner.

If at least one of the image position and the image of the position-dependent information changes with time, a unique image can be displayed with time.

The above-mentioned displayed image may be stored in a memory provided in the image display terminal or a server connectable to the network by a wireless line or the like.

Then, the above-mentioned image display terminal is provided with a voice reproducing means, and voice is added to the above-mentioned position-dependent information,
The sound may be played back by the image display terminal described above. The position-dependent information storage means may be a solid-state memory that can be attached to and detached from the image display terminal.

Display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and it is more effective if image display is not possible outside the display effective time.

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[Mode of implementation] A more detailed description will be given below based on an actual example. FIG. 1 shows the outline of the first embodiment.
Reference numeral 1 is a site having a server that stores position-dependent information. 102 is a position-dependent information database,
It stores the position of the image, the direction of the image, and position-dependent information including the image. On this site, position-dependent information input means for registering position-dependent information in the database, database management means for managing the database, and search for the corresponding position-dependent information based on the terminal position and terminal direction information sent from the image display terminal and display the image. The terminal has a terminal position searching means for transmitting the position of the image, the direction of the image, and position-dependent information including the image to the terminal.

An image display terminal 103 accesses the site 101 through the terminal base station 104 via a wireless public line. The image display terminal is a terminal position / direction acquisition unit that acquires the current position and direction of the terminal, an actual image acquisition unit that acquires an actual image using a CCD, etc., and position-dependent information acquired from the site based on the position and direction of the image terminal. And image processing means for calculating and superimposing the image acquired by the actual image means on the image acquired from the site in the same manner by calculating the position and direction of the terminal, and an image display means for displaying the processed image. .

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the image display terminal. The current position and direction of the terminal acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means (the above-mentioned terminal position and direction acquisition means is composed of these two means) are shown at 104 in FIG. 1 through the site access means and the wireless line connection means. The location-dependent information site is accessed through the base station and the location-dependent information corresponding to the location direction of the terminal is acquired. The acquired position-dependent information is processed by the image processing means. At this time, the image is created by calculating the position and direction information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means.

When the actual image is superimposed on the image obtained from the site, the image may be taken by the actual image taking means such as CCD, and this image may be combined with the image obtained from the site by the image processing means. At this time, an image is created by calculation based on the position / direction information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means. When it is desired to record such an image, the created composite image information is stored in the information storage means.

The terminal position / direction acquisition means is provided with a GPS unit as the terminal position acquisition means and an attitude detection unit as the terminal direction acquisition means. The GPS unit analyzes the signals from the plurality of GPS satellites received by the GPS antenna attached to the image display terminal 103, thereby obtaining the latitude,
Generates location information represented by longitude. The attitude detection unit employs a geomagnetic sensor to detect absolute values in north, south, east, and west. Here, a geomagnetic sensor is adopted as the attitude detection unit, but the position and direction detection unit composed of a plurality of GPS antennas arranged at appropriate intervals so as not to be aligned on the same straight line simultaneously acquires the position and direction. The method may be used. For the position in this case, representative position information such as the center of gravity of the three GPS antennas is selected as the position of the terminal.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the position-dependent information contents accumulated in the database of the site shown in FIG. 1. Here, the ID of the position-dependent information, the image name, the position of the image, the direction of the image (front side). Which direction the image is facing), the effective range, the time when the position-dependent information that can be displayed on the image display terminal for that time is effective, the image, and the motion of the image if there is motion (change of the image itself, image Position change and direction change), for example, if there is a voice such as a dinosaur bark, it is composed of each area of voice information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the aforementioned database is displayed as an image together with an actual image. 401 is an image display terminal, 403 is a dinosaur A (ID: a in FIG. 3 stored in the position-dependent information in FIG. 1).
bs 345) 402 is a person. The ▴ marks indicate the respective directions, and the respective positions and directions are shown in FIG. 5. Here, 2001/7/25 21:15 401
The image is displayed on the image display terminal.

First, the position and direction of the terminal are acquired by the image display terminal 401, and this position / direction information is transmitted to the site through the base station 104 of FIG. The site searches for the corresponding position-dependent information based on the received position / direction information and transmits it to the image display terminal. In the image display terminal 401, the received image is processed based on the position and direction information of the terminal, and the image obtained by the image pickup means such as CCD is also superposed. At this time, image processing is naturally performed based on the position and direction information of the terminal. The results are shown in Fig. 6. If necessary, this displayed image is stored in the information storage means of FIG.

In this embodiment, the height is not considered as the position of the image display terminal, but the "height" is also acquired from the GPS and the image having the three-dimensional position is displayed in synchronization with the actual image. With the configuration, the virtual reality becomes more realistic. In this case, a posture detection unit that can acquire information regarding a finer direction is required. Further, in order to follow a fast movement, a three-dimensional gyro capable of correcting with good response based on the position / direction acquired by the GPS or the geomagnetic sensor may be provided. Figure 7
It is the figure which showed the internal structure regarding the acquisition of the position direction of an image display terminal. The position / direction acquisition unit 701 is an arithmetic unit,
It is composed of a three-dimensional gyro, a GPS unit, and an attitude detection unit. In more detail, the posture detection unit 702 is composed of a tilt sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The operation of each unit is shown in FIG. In the above configuration, the position / direction information of the image display terminal 103 is acquired at regular intervals.

[0097]

Second Embodiment Next, a second embodiment will be shown. FIG. 9 shows an outline of the second embodiment, and 901 is a site having a server that stores position-dependent information. A position dependence information database 902 stores the position of the image and position dependence information including the image. In this site, position-dependent information input means for registering position-dependent information in the database, database management means for managing the database, terminal position information sent from the image display terminal is searched for the corresponding position-dependent information, and the image is displayed on the image display terminal. It has a terminal position search means for transmitting position-dependent information including the position and the image.

An image display terminal 903 accesses the site 901 through the terminal base station 904 via a wireless public line. The image display terminal is a terminal position acquisition unit that acquires the current position of the terminal, an actual image acquisition unit that acquires an actual image using a CCD, etc., and calculates the position-dependent information acquired from the site based on the position of the image terminal, Further, it further has an image processing means for calculating the position of the terminal and superimposing the image acquired by the actual image means on the image acquired from the site, and an image display means for displaying the processed image.

FIG. 10 shows a block diagram of the image display terminal. The terminal position acquired by the terminal position acquisition means is designated as 9 in FIG. 9 through the site access means and the wireless line connection means.
The location-dependent information site is accessed through the base station 04, and the location-dependent information corresponding to the location of the terminal is acquired. The acquired position-dependent information is processed by the image processing means, and at this time, the image is created by calculating the position information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means.

When the actual image is superimposed on the image obtained from the site, the image may be taken by the actual image taking means such as CCD, and this image may be combined with the image obtained from the site by the image processing means. At this time, an image may be created by calculating the position information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means. When it is desired to record such an image, the combined image information is stored in the information storage means. Alternatively, the combined image information may be stored in a server on the network as needed.

The terminal position acquisition means is equipped with a GPS unit. The GPS unit generates position information represented by latitude and longitude by analyzing signals from a plurality of GPS satellites received by a GPS antenna mounted on the image display terminal 103.

FIG. 11 shows an example of the position-dependent information stored in the database of the site shown in FIG. 9. Here, only the ID of the position-dependent information, the image name, the position of the image, the effective range, and its time are shown. When the position-dependent information that can be displayed on the image display terminal is valid time, image, or movement, if there is movement of the image (change of the image itself, change of position of the image), for example, voice such as dinosaur bark In some cases, each area is composed of voice information.

FIG. 12 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the above-mentioned database is displayed together with an actual image. 1201 is an image display terminal, 1203 is a dinosaur A stored in the position-dependent information DB 902 of FIG.
(ID: abs345 in FIG. 11) 1202 is a person. The respective positions and directions are shown in FIG. Here, the image is displayed on the image display terminal 1201 on 2001/7/25 21:15.

First, the position of the terminal is acquired by the image display terminal 1201 and this position information is transmitted to the site through the base station 904 in FIG. The site searches for the corresponding position-dependent information based on the received position information and sends it to the image display terminal. In the image display terminal 901, the received image is processed based on the position and direction information of the terminal, and the image obtained by the image pickup means such as CCD is also superposed. At this time, the image processing is naturally performed based on the position information of the terminal. The results are shown in Fig. 14. If necessary, the displayed image is stored in the information storage means shown in FIG. Alternatively, the position-dependent information may be stored in a server on the network as needed.

In this embodiment, the height is not taken into consideration as the position of the image display terminal, but the "height" is also acquired from GPS and an image having a three-dimensional position is displayed in synchronization with the actual image. With the configuration, the virtual reality becomes more realistic.

[0106]

Third Embodiment Next, a third embodiment will be shown. FIG. 15 shows an outline of the third embodiment, and 1501 is a site having a server that stores position-dependent information. 1502
Is a position-dependent information database, which stores the position of an image and position-dependent information including the image. On this site, position-dependent information input means for registering position-dependent information in the database, database management means for managing the database, and search for the corresponding position-dependent information based on the terminal position and terminal direction information sent from the image display terminal and display the image. It has a terminal position search means for transmitting the position of the image and position-dependent information including the image to the terminal.

An image display terminal 1503 accesses the position-dependent information site 1501 through the terminal base station 1504 via a wireless public line. The image display terminal is a terminal position / direction acquisition means for acquiring the current position and direction of the terminal, CC
An actual image acquisition means for acquiring an actual image by D, etc., position-dependent information acquired from the site based on the position and direction of the image terminal is arithmetically processed, and the image acquired by the actual image means is converted into an image acquired from the site. Similarly, it has an image processing means for calculating and superimposing the position direction of the terminal and an image display means for displaying the processed image.

FIG. 16 shows a block diagram of the image display terminal. The terminal position and the terminal direction of the terminal acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means correspond to the position direction of the terminal by accessing the position dependent information site through the base station 1504 in FIG. Get the position-dependent information. The acquired position-dependent information is processed by the image processing means. At this time, the image is created by calculating the position and direction information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means.

When the actual image is superimposed on the image obtained from the site, the image may be taken by the actual image taking means such as CCD, and this image may be combined with the image obtained from the site by the image processing means. At this time, similarly to the previous case, the image may be created by calculating the position and direction information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means. When it is desired to record such an image, the position-dependent information is stored in the information storage means.

The terminal position / direction acquisition means is provided with a GPS unit as the terminal position acquisition means and an attitude detection unit as the terminal direction acquisition means. The GPS unit analyzes the signals from the plurality of GPS satellites received by the GPS antenna attached to the image display terminal 1503 to generate position information represented by latitude and longitude. The attitude detection unit employs a geomagnetic sensor to detect absolute values in north, south, east, and west. Here, a geomagnetic sensor is adopted as the attitude detection unit, but the position and direction detection unit composed of a plurality of GPS antennas arranged at appropriate intervals so as not to be aligned on the same straight line simultaneously acquires the position and direction. The method may be used. The position in this case is 3 GPS
Representative position information such as the center of gravity of the antenna is selected as the position of the terminal.

FIG. 17 shows an example of the position-dependent information stored in the database of the position-dependent information site shown in FIG. 15. Here, the ID of the position-dependent information, the image name, the position of the image, the effective range, and its time are shown. Only when the position-dependent information that can be displayed on the image display terminal is valid time, image, and movement, the movement of the image (change of the image itself, change of the position of the image), for example, voice of dinosaur bark, etc. In some cases, each area is composed of voice information.

FIG. 18 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the aforementioned database is displayed as an image together with an actual image. Reference numeral 1801 denotes an image display terminal, 1803 denotes position-dependent information stored in the position-dependent information site in FIG. 15, and is a dinosaur A (ID: abs345 in FIG. 15) 18
02 is a person. The ▴ mark indicates the direction in which the person indicated by the direction of the image display terminal is noticed, and the terminal position, the terminal direction, and the positional relationship of the dinosaur A are shown in FIG. 19. Here, an image is displayed on the image display terminal 1601 at 2001/7/25 21:15.

First, the position and direction of the terminal are acquired by the image display terminal 1801, and this position and direction information is set to 150 in FIG.
4 to the site via the base station. The site searches for the corresponding position-dependent information based on the received position / direction information and sends it to the image display terminal. The image display terminal 1801 processes the received image based on the position and direction information of the terminal, and superimposes the image obtained by the actual image capturing means such as CCD. At this time, image processing is performed based on the position and direction information of the terminal. The result is shown in FIG. If necessary, this displayed image is shown in FIG.
The information is stored in the information storage means. Alternatively, the images displayed on the server on the network may be stored as necessary.

In this embodiment, the height is not taken into consideration as the position of the image display terminal, but the "height" is also acquired from GPS and an image having a three-dimensional position is displayed in synchronization with the actual image. With the configuration, the virtual reality becomes more realistic. In this case, a posture detection unit that can acquire information regarding a finer direction is required. Further, in order to follow a fast movement, a three-dimensional gyro capable of correcting with good response based on the position / direction acquired by the GPS or the geomagnetic sensor may be provided. Figure 21
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an internal configuration regarding acquisition of a position and direction of an image display terminal. The position / direction acquisition unit 2101 includes a calculation unit, a three-dimensional gyro, a GPS unit, and a posture detection unit. In more detail, the posture detection unit 2102 is composed of a tilt sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The operation of each unit is shown in FIG. In the above configuration, the position / direction information of the image display terminal 1801 is acquired at regular intervals.

[0115]

[Fourth Embodiment] In the above, the pull method in which the position of the terminal or the like is transmitted to the site and the position-dependent information is acquired, but the push method using short-distance wireless communication will be described in the fourth embodiment. FIG. 23 shows the outline of the fourth embodiment.
Reference numeral 1 is a site having a server that stores position-dependent information. A position-dependent information database 2302 stores position-dependent information including an image position, an image direction, and an image. In this site, position-dependent information input means for registering position-dependent information in the database, database management means for managing the database, and search for relevant position-dependent information based on the base station position of the short-range wireless base station It has a position search means for transmitting position-dependent information including position, image direction, and image.

Reference numeral 2305 denotes a short-distance wireless base station,
The position-dependent information acquired from the site 301 is transmitted to the image display terminal 2303. In this case, since the wireless communication is short-range wireless, the position-dependent information is transmitted only to the image display terminal at the corresponding position. The image display terminal is a terminal position / direction acquisition unit that acquires the terminal position and the terminal direction of the terminal, an actual image capturing unit that acquires an actual image using a CCD, and the short-range wireless base station based on the position and direction of the image display terminal. Image processing means for calculating the acquired position-dependent information, further calculating and superimposing the image acquired by the actual image capturing means on the image acquired from the short-distance wireless base station by calculating the position direction of the terminal, and displaying the processed image. It has an image display means. 23
Reference numeral 06 denotes a site on the network, which can store images as necessary.

FIG. 24 shows a block diagram of the image display terminal. The position-dependent information acquired from the short-distance wireless base station in FIG. 23 is arithmetically processed based on the current position and direction of the terminal acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means, and the image processing means performs the processing.

When the real image is superimposed on the image acquired from the short-distance wireless base station, the image is picked up by the real image pick-up means such as CCD, and this image is picked up by the image processing means from the short-distance wireless base station. It can be combined with. At this time, similarly to the previous case, the image may be created by calculating the position and direction information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means. Then, the created image may be accessed and stored in the site 2306 of FIG. 23 through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means.

The terminal position / direction acquisition means is provided with a GPS unit as the terminal position acquisition means and an attitude detection unit as the terminal direction acquisition means. The GPS unit generates position information represented by latitude and longitude by analyzing signals from a plurality of GPS satellites received by a GPS antenna attached to the image display terminal 2303. The attitude detection unit employs a geomagnetic sensor to detect absolute values in north, south, east, and west. Here, a geomagnetic sensor is adopted as the attitude detection unit, but the position and direction detection unit composed of a plurality of GPS antennas arranged at appropriate intervals so as not to be aligned on the same straight line simultaneously acquires the position and direction. The method may be used. The position in this case is 3 GPS
Representative position information such as the center of gravity of the antenna is selected as the position of the terminal.

FIG. 25 shows an example of the position-dependent information stored in the database 2302 of the site shown in FIG. 23. Here, the ID of the position-dependent information, the image name, the position of the image, the direction of the image (front side). Which direction is facing),
The effective range, the time when the position-dependent information that can be displayed on the image display terminal for that time is effective, the image, and the movement of the image when there is movement (change of the image itself, change of the position of the image, change of direction) For example, when there is a voice such as a dinosaur bark, it is composed of respective areas of voice information.

FIG. 26 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the aforementioned database is displayed as an image together with an actual image. 2601 is an image display terminal, 2603 is a dinosaur A stored in the database of the site of FIG.
(ID: abs345 in FIG. 25) 2602 is a person. The ▴ marks indicate the respective directions, and the respective positions and directions are shown in FIG. 27. Here is 2001/7/2
The image is displayed on the image display terminal 2601 at 5 21:15.

First, the image display terminal 2601 acquires position-dependent information through short-range wireless communication with the terminal. Then, the received image is processed on the basis of the position and direction information of the terminal, and the image obtained by the image pickup means such as CCD is also superposed. At this time, image processing is naturally performed based on the position and direction information of the terminal. The results are shown in Fig. 28. If necessary, the displayed image may be registered in the site 2306 of FIG. 23 through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means. Alternatively, the position-dependent information is stored in the information storage means equipped in the terminal.

In this embodiment, the height is not taken into consideration as the position of the image display terminal, but the "height" is also acquired from GPS and an image having a three-dimensional position is displayed in synchronization with the actual image. With the configuration, the virtual reality becomes more realistic. In this case, a posture detection unit that can acquire information regarding a finer direction is required. Further, in order to follow a fast movement, a three-dimensional gyro capable of correcting with good response based on the position / direction acquired by the GPS or the geomagnetic sensor may be provided. FIG. 29
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an internal configuration regarding acquisition of a position and direction of an image display terminal. The position / direction acquisition means 2901 includes a calculation unit, a three-dimensional gyro, a GPS unit, and a posture detection unit. In more detail, the posture detection unit 2902 is composed of a tilt sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The operation of each unit is shown in FIG. In the above configuration, the position / direction information of the image display terminal 2303 is acquired at regular intervals.

[0124]

Fifth Embodiment Next, a fifth embodiment will be shown. FIG. 31 shows an outline of the fifth embodiment, and 3101 is a site having a server that stores position-dependent information. 3102
Is a position-dependent information database, which stores the position of an image and position-dependent information including the image. In this site, location-dependent information input means for registering location-dependent information in the database, database management means for managing the database, short-distance wireless base station by searching the location-dependent information according to the base station location according to the short-distance base station The station has a position search means for transmitting the position of the image and position-dependent information including the image.

Reference numeral 3105 denotes a short-range wireless base station,
The position-dependent information acquired from the site 101 is transmitted to the image display terminal 3103. In this case, since the wireless communication is short-range wireless, the position-dependent information is transmitted only to the image display terminal at the corresponding position. The image display terminal obtains the terminal position of the terminal, a real image capturing means that obtains an actual image with a CCD, etc., and calculates position-dependent information obtained from the short-range wireless base station based on the position of the image terminal. Image processing means for processing and superimposing the image acquired by the real image capturing means on the image acquired from the short-distance wireless base station in the same manner and superimposing the position of the terminal, and image display means for displaying the processed image. ing. Reference numeral 3106 denotes a site on the network, which can store images as needed.

FIG. 32 shows a block diagram of the image display terminal. The position-dependent information acquired from the short-distance wireless base station 3104 of FIG. 31 is arithmetically processed based on the terminal position acquired by the terminal position acquisition means, and is processed by the image processing means.

When the real image is superimposed on the image obtained from the short-distance wireless base station, the image is picked up by the real-image pick-up means such as CCD, and this image is combined with the image obtained from the short-distance wireless base station. Good. At this time, an image may be created by calculating the position information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means. Then, the created image may be accessed and stored in the site 3106 of FIG. 31 through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means.

The terminal position acquisition means is equipped with a GPS unit. The GPS unit is the image display terminal 3103.
The position information represented by latitude and longitude is generated by analyzing the signals from the plurality of GPS satellites received by the GPS antenna attached to the.

FIG. 33 shows an example of the contents of the database 3102 of the site shown in FIG. 31. Here, the ID of the position-dependent information, the image name, the position of the image, the effective range, and the image display terminal only for that time. Image movement (image change, image position change) when there is a valid time, image, or movement for which position-dependent information that enables image display is valid, for example, when there is voice such as a dinosaur bark It is composed of each area of information.

FIG. 34 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the above-mentioned database is displayed as an image together with an actual image. 3401 is an image display terminal and 3403 is a dinosaur A (FIG. 34) stored in the position-dependent information of FIG.
ID: abs345) 3402 is a person. The positional relationship between the two is shown in FIG. Here is 2001/7/2
The image is displayed on the image display terminal 3401 at 5 21:15.

First, the image display terminal 3401 acquires position-dependent information through short-range wireless communication. Then, the received image is processed based on the position information of the terminal, and the image obtained by the actual image capturing means such as CCD is also superposed. At this time, the image processing is naturally performed based on the position information of the terminal. The result is shown in FIG. 36. If necessary,
The displayed image may be registered in the image DB site 3106 of FIG. 31 through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means. Alternatively, the position-dependent information is stored in the information storage means equipped in the terminal.

In this embodiment, the height is not taken into consideration as the position of the image display terminal, but the "height" is also acquired from GPS and an image having a three-dimensional position is displayed in synchronization with the actual image. With the configuration, the virtual reality becomes more realistic.

[0133]

Sixth Embodiment Next, a sixth embodiment will be described. FIG. 37 shows an outline of the sixth embodiment, and 3701 is a site having a server that stores position-dependent information. 3702
Is a position-dependent information database, which stores the position of an image and position-dependent information including the image. In this site, location-dependent information input means for registering location-dependent information in the database, database management means for managing the database, short-distance wireless base station by searching the location-dependent information according to the base station location according to the short-distance base station The station has a position search means for transmitting the position of the image and position-dependent information including the image.

Reference numeral 3705 denotes a short-distance wireless base station,
The position-dependent information acquired from the site 701 is transmitted to the image display terminal 3703. In this case, since the wireless communication is short-range wireless, the position-dependent information is transmitted only to the image display terminal at the corresponding position. The image display terminal is a terminal position / direction acquisition unit that acquires the current position and direction of the terminal, an actual image acquisition unit that acquires an actual image by a CCD, a position of the image display terminal,
The position-dependent information acquired from the short-distance wireless base station is arithmetically processed based on the direction, and the image acquired by the actual image capturing unit is calculated and superimposed on the image acquired from the short-distance wireless base station in the same manner. It has an image processing means for matching and an image display means for displaying the processed image. Three
Reference numeral 706 denotes a site on the network, which can store images as needed.

FIG. 38 shows a block diagram of the image display terminal. The position-dependent information acquired from the short-distance wireless base station in FIG. 37 is arithmetically processed based on the terminal position and the terminal direction of the terminal acquired by the terminal position acquisition unit and the terminal direction acquisition unit, and the image processing unit performs the processing.

When the real image is superimposed on the image obtained from the short-distance wireless base station, the image is picked up by the real image pick-up means such as CCD, and this image is picked up by the image processing means from the short-distance wireless base station. It can be combined with. At this time, similarly to the previous case, the image may be created by calculating the position and direction information acquired by the terminal position acquisition means and the terminal direction acquisition means. Then, the created image may be accessed and stored in the site 3706 of FIG. 37 through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means.

The terminal position / direction obtaining means is provided with a GPS unit as the terminal position obtaining means and an attitude detecting unit as the terminal direction obtaining means. The GPS unit analyzes the signals from the plurality of GPS satellites received by the GPS antenna attached to the image display terminal 3703 to generate position information represented by latitude and longitude. The attitude detection unit employs a geomagnetic sensor to detect absolute values in north, south, east, and west. Here, a geomagnetic sensor is adopted as the attitude detection unit, but the position and direction detection unit composed of a plurality of GPS antennas arranged at appropriate intervals so as not to be aligned on the same straight line simultaneously acquires the position and direction. The method may be used. The position in this case is 3 GPS
Representative position information such as the center of gravity of the antenna is selected as the position of the terminal.

FIG. 39 shows an example of the contents of the position-dependent information stored in the database 3702 of the site shown in FIG. 37. Here, the ID of the position-dependent information, the image name, the effective position range of the image, and its time are shown. Only when the position-dependent information that can be displayed on the image display terminal is valid time, image, and movement, the movement of the image (change of the image itself, change of the position of the image), for example, voice of dinosaur bark, etc. In some cases, each area is composed of voice information.

FIG. 40 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the above-mentioned database is displayed together with an actual image. Reference numeral 4001 denotes an image display terminal, 3403 denotes a dinosaur A (ID: abs345 in FIG. 39) stored in the position-dependent information DB 3702 in FIG.
Is a person. The ▴ marks indicate the respective directions, and the respective positions and directions are shown in FIG. 41. 200 here
The image is displayed on the image display terminal 4001 at 1/7/25 21:15.

First, the image display terminal 4001 obtains position-dependent information from the terminal through short-range wireless communication. Then, the received image is processed on the basis of the position and direction information of the terminal, and the image obtained by the image pickup means such as CCD is also superposed. At this time, image processing is naturally performed based on the position and direction information of the terminal. The result is shown in FIG. 42. If necessary, this displayed image may be registered in the site 3706 of FIG. 37 through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means. Alternatively, the position-dependent information is stored in the information storage means equipped in the terminal.

In this embodiment, the height is not considered as the position of the image display terminal, but the "height" is also acquired from the GPS and the image having the three-dimensional position is displayed in synchronization with the actual image. With the configuration, the virtual reality becomes more realistic. In this case, a posture detection unit that can acquire information regarding a finer direction is required. Further, in order to follow a fast movement, a three-dimensional gyro capable of correcting with good response based on the position / direction acquired by the GPS or the geomagnetic sensor may be provided. Figure 43
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an internal configuration regarding acquisition of a position and direction of an image display terminal. The position / direction acquisition unit 4301 includes a calculation unit, a three-dimensional gyro, a GPS unit, and a posture detection unit. In more detail, the attitude detection unit 4302 is composed of a tilt sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The operation of each unit is shown in FIG. In the above configuration, the position / direction information of the image display terminal 3703 is acquired at regular intervals.

[0142]

[Embodiment 7] The above example is the case where the position dependent information is stored in the site. Next, the case where the position dependent information is stored in the image display terminal will be described. FIG. 45 is a block diagram of the image display terminal adopted in the seventh embodiment. Here, position-dependent information including an image position, an image direction, and an image is stored in the position-dependent information storage means. The position-dependent information storage means can freely update the position-dependent information by using a solid-state memory that can be attached to and detached from the image display terminal.

The position acquisition means acquires the terminal position of the image display terminal, and the direction acquisition means acquires the current direction of the image display terminal. Based on the acquired position and direction, the position-dependent information retrieval means acquires the corresponding position-dependent information from the image storage means. The image processing means performs image processing on the position-dependent information based on the position / direction information acquired by the position acquisition means and the direction acquisition means. Then, the created image may be displayed. Further, when superposing the real images, it is sufficient to superimpose the previous image on the image acquired by the real image capturing means such as CCD. At this time, the position / direction information acquired by the position acquiring means and the direction acquiring means is similarly obtained. It is sufficient to display the image created by performing the arithmetic processing on the basis. Then, the created image may be accessed and stored through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means. Alternatively, the position-dependent information may be stored in the information storage means equipped in the terminal.

A GPS unit is used as the terminal position acquisition means and an attitude detection unit is used as the terminal direction acquisition means. The GPS unit is a GPS attached to the image display terminal.
By analyzing signals received by the antenna from a plurality of GPS satellites, position information represented by latitude and longitude is generated. The attitude detection unit uses a geomagnetic sensor,
Detects absolute values of north, south, east and west. Here, a geomagnetic sensor is adopted as the attitude detection unit, but the position and direction detection unit composed of a plurality of GPS antennas arranged at appropriate intervals so as not to be aligned on the same straight line simultaneously acquires the position and direction. The method may be used. For the position in this case, representative position information such as the center of gravity of the three GPS antennas is selected as the position of the terminal.

FIG. 46 shows an example of the contents stored in the image storage means of FIG. 45.
D, image name, image position, image direction, effective range, and time when the position-dependent information that can be displayed on the image display terminal for that time is effective, image, or motion (image motion (image itself)) No. change, change in image position, change in image direction), for example, if there is a voice such as a dinosaur bark, it is composed of respective areas of voice information.

FIG. 47 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the aforementioned database is displayed as an image together with an actual image. Reference numeral 4701 is an image display terminal, and reference numeral 4703 is a dinosaur A stored in the position-dependent information storage means of FIG.
(ID: abs345 in FIG. 46) 4702 is a person. The ▴ marks indicate the respective directions, and the respective positions and directions are shown in FIG. 48. Here is 2001/7/2
The image is displayed on the image display terminal 4701 at 5 21:15.

First, in the image display terminal 4701, the position-dependent information retrieving means searches the corresponding position-dependent information stored in the position-dependent information accumulating means from the position and direction acquired by the position acquiring means and the direction acquiring means of the image display terminal, The image is processed based on the position and direction information of the image display terminal, and the image obtained by the image pickup means such as CCD is also superposed. At this time, image processing is naturally performed based on the position and direction information of the terminal. The results are shown in Fig. 49. If necessary, this displayed image may be registered in the site through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means.

In the present embodiment, the height is not considered as the position of the image display terminal, but the "height" is also acquired from GPS and an image having a three-dimensional position is displayed in synchronization with the actual image. With the configuration, the virtual reality becomes more realistic. In this case, a posture detection unit that can acquire information regarding a finer direction is required. Further, in order to follow a fast movement, a three-dimensional gyro capable of correcting with good response based on the position / direction acquired by the GPS or the geomagnetic sensor may be provided. Figure 50
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an internal configuration regarding acquisition of a position and direction of an image display terminal. The position / direction acquisition means 5001 includes a calculation unit, a three-dimensional gyro, a GPS unit, and a posture detection unit. In more detail, the posture detection unit 5002 is composed of a tilt sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The operation of each unit is shown in FIG. In the above configuration, the position / direction information of the image display terminal is acquired at regular intervals.

[0149]

Eighth Embodiment FIG. 52 is a block diagram of an image display terminal adopted in the eighth embodiment. Here, the position of the image and the position-dependent information including the image are stored in the position-dependent information storage means. The position-dependent information storage means can freely update the position-dependent information by using a solid-state memory that can be attached to and detached from the image display terminal.

The position acquisition means acquires the terminal position of the image display terminal, and the position dependence information retrieval means retrieves and extracts the corresponding position dependence information from the image storage means based on the acquired position, and the position dependence information in the image processing means. The image processing means performs image processing based on the position information acquired by the position acquisition means. Then, the created image may be displayed. Further, when superposing the real images, it is sufficient to superimpose the previous image on the image acquired by the real image capturing means such as a CCD. At this time, the arithmetic processing is similarly performed based on the position information acquired by the position acquiring means. It is sufficient to display the created image. Then, the created image may be accessed and stored through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means. Alternatively, the position-dependent information may be stored in the information storage means equipped in the terminal.

FIG. 53 shows an example of the contents of the position-dependent information stored in the image storage means shown in FIG. 52. Here, the ID of the position-dependent information, the image name, the position of the image, the effective range, and the image for that time are displayed. If there is time, image, or movement for which the position-dependent information that allows the image to be displayed on the display terminal is valid, if there is movement of the image (change of the image itself, change of position of the image), for example, voice such as dinosaur bark Is composed of areas of voice information.

FIG. 54 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the aforementioned database is displayed as an image together with an actual image. 5401 is an image display terminal, 5403
Is a dinosaur A (ID: abs345 in FIG. 53) stored in the position-dependent information storage means in FIG. 52, and 5402 is a person. The positional relationship is shown in FIG. Here is 2001 /
The image is displayed on the image display terminal 5401 at 7:25 pm 21:15.

First, in the image display terminal 5401, the position acquired by the position acquisition means of the image display terminal is referred to, the position-dependent information retrieving means searches the position-dependent information accumulating means for the corresponding position-dependent information, and the image is displayed. The image is processed based on the position information of the image display terminal, and the image obtained by the image pickup means such as CCD is also superposed. At this time, the image processing is naturally performed based on the position information of the terminal. The result is shown in FIG. If necessary, this displayed image may be registered in the site through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means.

The terminal position acquisition means is equipped with a GPS unit. The GPS unit generates position information represented by latitude and longitude by analyzing signals from a plurality of GPS satellites received by a GPS antenna attached to the image display terminal.

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Ninth Embodiment FIG. 57 is a block diagram of an image display terminal adopted in the ninth embodiment. Here, the image position and the position-dependent information including the image are stored in the position-dependent information storage means. The position-dependent information storage means can freely update the position-dependent information by using a solid-state memory that can be attached to and detached from the image display terminal.

The position obtaining means obtains the terminal position of the image display terminal and the direction obtaining means obtains the terminal direction of the image display terminal, and the position-dependent information retrieving means uses the obtained position direction from the position-dependent information accumulating means. Information is searched and extracted, and the image processing means performs image processing on the position-dependent information based on the position / direction information acquired by the position acquisition means and the direction acquisition means in the image processing means. Then, the created image may be displayed. Further, when superposing the real images, it is sufficient to superimpose the previous image on the image acquired by the real image capturing means such as CCD. At this time, the position / direction information acquired by the position acquiring means and the direction acquiring means is similarly obtained. It is sufficient to display the image created by performing the arithmetic processing on the basis. Then, the created image may be accessed and stored through the site access means and the wireless communication line connection means. Alternatively, the position-dependent information may be stored in the information storage means equipped in the terminal.

A GPS unit as terminal position acquisition means,
An attitude detection unit is used as the terminal direction acquisition means. The GPS unit is a GPS attached to the image display terminal.
By analyzing signals received by the antenna from a plurality of GPS satellites, position information represented by latitude and longitude is generated. The attitude detection unit uses a geomagnetic sensor,
Detects absolute values of north, south, east and west. Here, a geomagnetic sensor is adopted as the attitude detection unit, but the position and direction detection unit composed of a plurality of GPS antennas arranged at appropriate intervals so as not to be aligned on the same straight line simultaneously acquires the position and direction. The method may be used. For the position in this case, representative position information such as the center of gravity of the three GPS antennas is selected as the position of the terminal.

In this embodiment, the height is not considered as the position of the image display terminal, but the "height" is also acquired from the GPS and an image having a three-dimensional position is displayed in synchronization with the actual image. With the configuration, the virtual reality becomes more realistic. In this case, a posture detection unit that can acquire information regarding a finer direction is required. Further, in order to follow a fast movement, a three-dimensional gyro capable of correcting with good response based on the position / direction acquired by the GPS or the geomagnetic sensor may be provided.

FIG. 58 shows an example of the contents of the position-dependent information stored in the position-dependent information accumulating means shown in FIG. 57. Here, the ID of the position-dependent information, the image name, the position of the image, the effective range, and its time are shown. Only when the position-dependent information that can be displayed on the image display terminal is valid time, image, and movement, the movement of the image (change of the image itself, change of the position of the image), for example, voice of dinosaur bark, etc. In some cases, each area is composed of voice information.

FIG. 59 is a diagram schematically showing each positional relationship when the dinosaur A in the above-mentioned database is displayed together with an actual image. Reference numeral 5901 indicates an image display terminal, and reference numeral 5903 indicates a dinosaur A stored in the position-dependent information storage means of FIG.
(ID of FIG. 58: abs345) 5902 is a person. The ▴ marks indicate the respective directions, and the respective positions and directions are shown in FIG. 60. Here is 2001/7/2
The image is being displayed on the image display terminal 5901 at 5 21:15.

First, in the image display terminal 5901, the position dependence information retrieving means searches the position dependence information accumulating means for the corresponding position dependence information from the position and direction acquired by the position acquisition means and the direction acquisition means of the image display terminal, and the image Is processed on the basis of the position and direction information of the image display terminal, and the image obtained by the image pickup means such as CCD is also superposed. At this time, image processing is naturally performed based on the position and direction information of the terminal. The result is shown in FIG. 61.
If necessary, use this displayed image to access the site,
It suffices to register on the site through a wireless communication line connecting means.

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As described above, according to the present invention, images are stored as position-dependent information including position and direction information, and in the image display terminal, an image matching the position and direction of the image display terminal is stored. Can be displayed. Furthermore, it becomes possible to display the actual image and the stored image in an overlapping manner in consideration of the position and direction information, and to easily display a new interesting image. You can also save this interesting image for later viewing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an outline of a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an image display terminal of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an example of a position-dependent information database according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the positional relationship of the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a positional relationship of the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an image of the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an internal configuration relating to position / direction acquisition.

FIG. 8 Unit operation

FIG. 9 is an outline of the second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is an image display terminal of the second embodiment.

FIG. 11 is an example of a position-dependent information database of the second embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of the positional relationship of the second embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a positional relationship of the second embodiment.

FIG. 14 is an image of the second embodiment.

FIG. 15: Outline of third embodiment

FIG. 16 is an image display terminal of the third embodiment.

FIG. 17 is an example of a position-dependent information database according to the third embodiment.

FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram of the positional relationship of the third embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a positional relationship of the third embodiment.

FIG. 20 is an image of the third embodiment.

FIG. 21 is an internal configuration regarding position / direction acquisition.

FIG. 22: Operation of unit

FIG. 23 is an outline of the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 24 is an image display terminal of the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 25 is an example of the position-dependent information database of the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 26 is a schematic diagram of the positional relationship of the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 27 is a positional relationship of the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 28 is an image of the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 29 is an internal configuration regarding position / direction acquisition.

FIG. 30: Operation of unit

FIG. 31: Outline of fifth embodiment

FIG. 32 is an image display terminal of the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 33 is an example of the position-dependent information database of the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 34 is a schematic view of the positional relationship of the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 35 is a positional relationship of the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 36 is an image of the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 37 is an outline of the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 38 is an image display terminal of the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 39 is an example of the position-dependent information database according to the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 40 is a schematic diagram of the positional relationship of the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 41 is a positional relationship of the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 42 is an image of the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 43 is an internal configuration regarding position / direction acquisition.

FIG. 44: Operation of unit

FIG. 45 is a block diagram of the image display terminal of the seventh embodiment.

FIG. 46 is an example of position-dependent information storage means in the seventh embodiment.

FIG. 47 is a schematic diagram of the positional relationship of the seventh embodiment.

FIG. 48 is a positional relationship of the seventh embodiment.

FIG. 49 is an image of the seventh embodiment.

FIG. 50 is an internal configuration relating to position / direction acquisition.

FIG. 51: Operation of unit

FIG. 52 is an image display terminal block diagram of the eighth embodiment.

FIG. 53 is an example of the position-dependent information storage means of the eighth embodiment.

FIG. 54 is a schematic diagram of the positional relationship of the eighth embodiment.

FIG. 55 is a positional relationship of the eighth embodiment.

FIG. 56 is an image of the eighth embodiment.

FIG. 57 is a block diagram of an image display terminal of the ninth embodiment.

FIG. 58 is an example of position-dependent information storage means of the ninth embodiment.

FIG. 59 is a schematic diagram of the positional relationship of the ninth embodiment.

FIG. 60 is a positional relationship of the ninth embodiment.

FIG. 61 is an image of the ninth embodiment.

Claims (111)

[Claims] 1. An image storage / display system in which position-dependent information including an image is stored in a server on a network and the image is displayed on an image display terminal, wherein a) at least the image, the image position and the image direction of the image are displayed. Position-dependent information storage means for storing the included position-dependent information in a server on the network, b) position-direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, c) the image display terminal, the server and the Access means for connecting via a network, d) referencing the acquired terminal position and terminal direction, and the image position and image direction included in the position dependent information, and selecting the corresponding position dependent information from the position dependent information storage means. Position-dependent-information selecting means, e) the image included in the selected position-dependent information, the terminal position, the terminal direction, and the image. Calculating the position and image orientation,
An image storage and display system comprising a display unit for displaying on the image display terminal. 2. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and superimposes the image included in the position-dependent information and the image acquired by the real image pickup means in a position-direction synchronized manner. The image storage and display system according to claim 1, wherein the image storage and display system is displayed. 3. The position-dependent information is an image position according to time,
The image storage / display system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of an image direction and an image changes. 4. The image storage according to claim 1, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on the network. Display system. 5. The image storage / display system according to claim 1, wherein a sound is added to the position-dependent information. 6. The image storage / display system according to claim 1, wherein the position-dependent information storage means is connected by wireless communication when accessing from the image display terminal. 7. The image storage / display system according to claim 1, wherein display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display effective time. . 8. An image display terminal, comprising: a) a position / direction acquisition means for acquiring a terminal position and a terminal direction of the image display terminal, b) the image display terminal, a server storing position-dependent information, and a network. Access means for connecting, c) position dependence information acquisition means for fetching position dependence information including an image and an image position and an image direction from the network based on the acquired terminal position and terminal direction, d) the acquired position dependence An image display terminal comprising an image display means for calculating an image position included in information, a terminal position and a terminal direction of the image display terminal, the image position and the image direction, and displaying the image. 9. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and synchronizes the position and direction of the image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means with the image obtained by the real image pickup means. The image display terminal according to claim 8, wherein the image display terminal displays the images in an overlapping manner. 10. The image display terminal according to claim 8, wherein at least one of an image position, an image direction, and an image of the position-dependent information changes with time. 11. The image display terminal according to claim 7, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. . 12. The image display terminal according to claim 8, wherein the image display terminal has an audio reproduction means, and audio is added to the position-dependent information, and the audio can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 13. The image display terminal according to claim 8, wherein when the image display terminal accesses the position-dependent information storage means, it is connected by wireless communication. 14. The image accumulation display terminal according to claim 8, wherein display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display effective time. . 15. An image storage / display system in which position-dependent information including an image is stored in a server on a network and the image is displayed by an image display terminal, comprising: a) position-dependent information including at least the image and the image position of the image. Position-dependent information storage means for storing in a server on the network, b) position acquisition means for obtaining the terminal position of the image display terminal, c) access means for connecting the image display terminal to the server via the network, d ) Position-dependent information selecting means for selecting the corresponding position-dependent information from the position-dependent information storage means by referring to the acquired terminal position and the image position included in the position-dependent information, e) the selected position-dependent information Display means for calculating the terminal position and the image position of the image included in the image, and displaying the image on the image display terminal. Image storage display system characterized in that they are composed of cormorants means. 16. The image display terminal has a real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the positions of the image stored in the image storage means on the network and the image obtained by the real image pickup means are synchronized. 16. The image storage / display system according to claim 15, wherein the image storage / display system is configured to display the images in a superimposed manner. 17. The image storage / display system according to claim 15, wherein at least one of the image position and the image of the position-dependent information changes with time. 18. The image storage display according to claim 15, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. system. 19. The image storage / display system according to claim 15, wherein voice is added to the position-dependent information. 20. The image storage / display system according to claim 15, wherein the position-dependent information storage means is connected by wireless communication when accessed from the image display terminal. 21. Display valid time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display valid time.
The image storage display system according to the item. 22. In the image display terminal, a) position acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position of the image display terminal, b) access means for connecting the image display terminal to a position-dependent information storage server on a network, and c) the above. Position-dependent information acquisition means for taking in the position-dependent information including the image and the image position from the network based on the acquired terminal position, d) The image included in the acquired position-dependent information is the terminal position of the image display terminal and the image. An image display terminal comprising an image display means for calculating a position and displaying an image as a component. 23. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means and the image obtained by the real image pickup means are synchronized in position and overlapped. The image display terminal according to claim 22, which is also displayed together. 24. The image display terminal according to claim 22, wherein at least one of the image and the image position of the position-dependent information changes with time. 25. The image display terminal according to claim 22, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. . 26. The image display terminal according to claim 22, characterized in that the image display terminal has a voice reproduction means, a voice is added to the position-dependent information, and the voice can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 27. The image display terminal according to claim 22, wherein the position dependent information storage means on the network is connected by wireless communication means when accessing from the terminal. 28. The display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display effective time.
The image accumulation display terminal according to the item. 29. An image storage / display system in which position-dependent information including an image is stored in a server on a network and the image is displayed on an image display terminal, wherein: a) position-dependent including at least the image and the image position of the image. Position-dependent information storage means for storing information in a server on the network, b) position / direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, c) via the image display terminal, the server, and the network Accessing means for connection, d) Position dependence for referring to the acquired terminal position and terminal direction, and the image position and image direction included in the position dependence information, and selecting the corresponding position dependence information from the position dependence information storage means. Information selecting means, e) The image included in the selected position-dependent information is displayed as the terminal position, the terminal direction, and the image position. Image storage display system characterized in that they are composed of means of display means calculated, and displayed on the image display terminal. 30. The image display terminal has a real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image stored in the image storage means on the network and the image acquired by the real image pickup means are arranged in the position direction. 30. The image storage / display system according to claim 29, wherein the images are displayed in synchronization with each other. 31. The image storage / display system according to claim 29, wherein at least one of an image position and an image of the position-dependent information changes with time. 32. The image storage display according to claim 29, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. system. 33. The image storage / display system according to claim 29, wherein voice is added to the position-dependent information. 34. The image storage / display system according to claim 29, wherein the position-dependent information storage means is connected by wireless communication when accessing from the image display terminal. 35. A display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and an image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.
The image storage display system according to the item. 36. In the image display terminal, a) a position / direction acquisition means for acquiring a terminal position and a terminal direction of the image display terminal, b) an access means for connecting the image display terminal to a position-dependent information storage server via a network. , C) position-dependent information acquisition means for taking in the position-dependent information including the image and the image position from the network based on the acquired terminal position, d) the image included in the acquired position-dependent information, the terminal of the image display terminal An image display terminal, comprising image display means for calculating a position, a terminal direction, and the image position and displaying an image as a component. 37. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and synchronizes the position and direction of the image obtained by the position-dependent information obtaining means with the image obtained by the real image pickup means. The image display terminal according to claim 36, wherein the image display terminal displays the images in an overlapping manner. 38. The image display terminal according to claim 36, wherein in the position-dependent information, at least one of an image position and an image changes with time. 39. The image display terminal according to claim 36, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. . 40. The image display terminal according to claim 36, characterized in that the image display terminal has a sound reproducing means, and sound is added to the position-dependent information, and the sound can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 41. The image display terminal according to claim 36, wherein the image display terminal is connected by wireless communication when accessing the position-dependent information storage means from the image display terminal. 42. The effective display time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the effective display time.
The image accumulation display terminal according to the item. 43. An image storage / display system in which position-dependent information including an image is stored in a position-dependent information storage means, and an image is displayed by an image display terminal different from the position-dependent information storage means, comprising: a) at least the image of the image. Position-dependent information accumulating means for accumulating position-and-image direction and position-dependent information including the image b) Position-direction acquiring means for acquiring a terminal position and a terminal direction of the image display terminal, c) From the position-dependent information accumulating means, Communication means for transmitting the position-dependent information to the image display terminal, d) an image included in the position-dependent information transmitted by the communication means, the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, the image position and image direction of the image An image storage and display system characterized by comprising display means for calculating and displaying. 44. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image included in the position-dependent information and the image acquired by the real image pickup means are overlapped with each other by synchronizing the position direction. The image storage / display system according to claim 43, which displays the image. 45. The image storage display system according to claim 43, wherein at least one of an image position, an image direction, and an image of the position-dependent information changes with time. 46. The image storage display according to claim 43, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. system. 47. The image storage display system according to claim 43, wherein voice is added to the position-dependent information. 48. The image storage / display system according to claim 43, wherein said communication means is a wireless communication means. 49. The image storage display system according to claim 43, wherein said wireless communication means is at least one short-range communication means selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN, and optical communication. 50. The display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display effective time.
The image storage display system according to the item. 51. In the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information receiving means for receiving position-dependent information including an image, an image position and an image direction from the position-dependent information storage means, and b) a terminal position of the image display terminal. Position / direction acquisition means for acquiring a terminal direction, c) An image display for displaying an image by calculating the terminal position of the image display terminal, the terminal direction, the image position and the image direction of the image included in the acquired position-dependent information. An image display terminal having means as a component. 52. The image display terminal has a real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image received by the position-dependent information receiving means and the image obtained by the real image pickup means are synchronized in position and direction, The image display terminal according to claim 51, wherein the image display terminal displays the images in an overlapping manner. 53. The image display terminal according to claim 51, wherein at least one of an image position, an image direction, and an image of the position-dependent information changes with time. 54. The image display terminal according to claim 51, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. . 55. The image display terminal according to claim 51, wherein the image display terminal has audio reproduction means, and audio is added to the position-dependent information, and the audio can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 56. The image display terminal according to claim 51, wherein the image display terminal is connected by wireless communication when accessing the image display terminal from the position-dependent information storage means. 57. The wireless communication is Bluetooth, wireless L
52. The image storage / display terminal according to claim 51, which is at least one short-range communication selected from AN and optical communication. 58. The display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display effective time.
The image accumulation display terminal according to the item. 59. An image accumulation display system for accumulating position-dependent information including an image in the position-dependent information accumulating means and displaying the image on an image display terminal different from the image accumulating means, comprising: a) at least the image position of the image and the Position-dependent information storage means for storing position-dependent information including an image, b) position acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position of the image display terminal, and c) position-dependent information for the image display terminal from the position-dependent information storage means. A communication means for transmitting, d) a means for displaying an image included in the position-dependent information transmitted by the communication means, the terminal position of the image display terminal and the image position, and displaying the image on the image display terminal. An image storage / display system characterized by the following. 60. The image display terminal has real image capturing means for capturing an image, and the image included in the position-dependent information and the image acquired by the real image capturing means are synchronized in position and overlapped. An image storage / display system according to claim 59, characterized by displaying. 61. The image storage / display system according to claim 59, wherein at least one of an image position and an image changes with time in the position-dependent information. 62. An image storage display according to claim 59, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. system. 63. The image storage / display system according to claim 59, wherein voice is added to the position-dependent information. 64. The image storage display system according to claim 59, wherein said communication means is a wireless communication means. 65. The image storage display system according to claim 59, wherein said wireless communication means is at least one short-range communication means selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN, and optical communication. 66. A display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display effective time.
The image storage display system according to the item. 67. In the image display terminal, a) receiving means for receiving at least the image position of the image and position-dependent information including the image from the position-dependent information storage means, and b) acquiring the terminal position of the image display terminal. Position acquisition means, c) An image characterized by comprising an image display means for calculating an image position included in the received position-dependent information, the terminal position of the image display terminal and the image position, and displaying the image. Display terminal. 68. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image included in the position-dependent information and the image acquired by the real image pickup means are synchronized in position and overlapped. The image display terminal according to claim 67, characterized by displaying. 69. The image display terminal according to claim 67, wherein at least one of the image position and the image changes with time in the position-dependent information. 70. The image display terminal according to claim 67, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. . 71. The image display terminal according to claim 67, wherein the image display terminal has a sound reproducing means, and sound is added to the position-dependent information, and the sound can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 72. The image display terminal according to claim 67, wherein the image display terminal is connected by wireless communication when accessing the position-dependent information storage means from the image display terminal. 73. The wireless communication is Bluetooth, wireless L
68. The image storage display terminal according to claim 67, which is at least one short-range communication selected from AN and optical communication. 74. A display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and an image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.
The image accumulation display terminal according to the item. 75. An image storage / display system for storing position-dependent information including an image in position-dependent information storage means and displaying the image on an image display terminal different from the image storage means, wherein: a) at least the image position of the image and the Position-dependent information storage means for storing position-dependent information including an image, b) Position-direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, and c) From the position-dependent information storage means to the image display terminal, Communication means for transmitting position-dependent information, d) a display means for calculating an image included in the position-dependent information, a terminal position of the image display terminal, a terminal direction, and an image position of the image, and displaying the image on the image display terminal. An image storage and display system characterized by the following. 76. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image included in the position-dependent information and the image obtained by the real image pickup means are superposed by synchronizing the position direction. The image storage / display system according to claim 75, characterized in that 77. The image storage / display system according to claim 75, wherein at least one of the image position and the image of the position-dependent information changes with time. 78. An image storage / display system according to claim 75, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. system. 79. The image storage / display system according to claim 75, wherein voice is added to the position-dependent information. 80. The image storage display system according to claim 75, wherein said communication means is a wireless communication means. 81. The image storage / display system according to claim 75, wherein said wireless communication means is at least one short-range communication means selected from Bluetooth, wireless LAN, and optical communication. 82. The effective display time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the effective display time.
The image storage display system according to the item. 83. In the image display terminal, a) receiving means for receiving at least the image and position-dependent information including the image position of the image from the position-dependent information storage means, and b) indicating the terminal position and the terminal direction of the image display terminal. Position / direction acquisition means for acquiring, c) an image included in the received position-dependent information is calculated as a terminal position of the image display terminal, a terminal direction, and the image position, and an image display means for displaying the image is provided as a constituent element. An image display terminal characterized by the above. 84. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image included in the position-dependent information and the image acquired by the real image pickup means are superposed by synchronizing the position direction. The image display terminal according to claim 83, wherein the image display terminal is displayed as. 85. The image display terminal according to claim 83, wherein in the position-dependent information, at least one of an image position and an image changes with time. 86. The image display terminal according to claim 83, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. . 87. The image display terminal according to claim 83, wherein the image display terminal has an audio reproduction means, and audio is added to the position-dependent information, and the audio can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 88. The image display terminal according to claim 83, wherein the image display terminal is connected by wireless communication when accessing the image display terminal from the position-dependent information storage means. 89. The wireless communication is Bluetooth, wireless L
The image accumulation display terminal according to claim 83, which is at least one short-range communication selected from AN and optical communication. 90. The display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display effective time.
The image accumulation display terminal according to the item. 91. In the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information storage means for storing position-dependent information including at least an image, an image position, and an image direction, and b) a position of the image display terminal, and a position for acquiring the terminal direction. Direction acquisition means, c) position-dependent information retrieval and extraction means for retrieving and extracting position-dependent information from the position-dependent information storage means with reference to the acquired terminal position, terminal direction, and image position and image direction, d) An image display terminal characterized by having, as a constituent element, an image display means for calculating and displaying the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal, the image position and the image direction, the image included in the retrieved and extracted position-dependent information. . 92. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and synchronizes the position and direction of the image obtained by the position-dependent information search and extraction means with the image obtained by the real image pickup means. The image display terminal according to claim 91, wherein the image display terminal displays the images in an overlapping manner. 93. The image display terminal according to claim 91, wherein at least one of an image position, an image direction, and an image of the position-dependent information changes with time. 94. The image display terminal according to claim 91, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. . 95. The image display terminal according to claim 91, further comprising a sound reproducing unit, wherein sound is added to the position-dependent information, and the sound can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 96. The image storage / display terminal according to claim 91, wherein said position-dependent information storage means is a solid-state memory removable from said image display terminal. 97. A display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and an image cannot be displayed outside the display effective time.
The image accumulation display terminal according to the item. 98. In the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information storage means for storing at least the image position and position-dependent information including the image, b) position acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position of the image display terminal, and c). Position-dependent information search and extraction means for searching and extracting position-dependent information from the position-dependent information storage means with reference to the acquired terminal position and the image position, d) the image included in the searched and extracted position-dependent information An image display terminal, comprising: image display means for calculating the terminal position and the image position and displaying the image position on the image display terminal. 99. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image included in the position-dependent information and the image obtained by the real image pickup means are synchronized in position and overlapped. The image display terminal according to claim 98, characterized by displaying. 100. The image display terminal according to claim 98, wherein at least one of an image position and an image changes with time in the position-dependent information. 101. An image display terminal according to claim 98, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network. . 102. The image display terminal according to claim 98, characterized in that the image display terminal has a sound reproduction means, and sound is added to the position-dependent information, and the sound can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 103. The image storage / display terminal according to claim 98, wherein the position-dependent information storage means is a solid-state memory detachable from the image display terminal. 104. Display valid time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display valid time.
The image accumulation display terminal according to item 8. 105. In the image display terminal, a) position-dependent information storage means for storing position-dependent information including at least an image and an image position, and b) position-direction acquisition means for acquiring the terminal position and terminal direction of the image display terminal. C) A position-dependent information retrieval and extraction unit that retrieves and extracts position-dependent information from the position-dependent information storage unit with reference to the acquired terminal position, terminal direction, and the image position, d) The searched and extracted position An image display terminal comprising image display means for calculating and displaying the terminal position, the terminal direction, and the image position of the image display terminal, the image included in the dependency information. 106. The image display terminal has real image pickup means for picking up an image, and the image included in the position-dependent information and the image obtained by the real image pickup means are superposed by synchronizing the position direction. The image display terminal according to claim 105, wherein the image display terminal displays the image. 107. The image display terminal according to claim 105, wherein in the position-dependent information, at least one of an image position and an image changes with time. 108. A storage means according to claim 105, further comprising storage means for storing the displayed image in the image display terminal or a server on a network.
An image display terminal according to any one of items 1 to 107. 109. The image display terminal according to claim 105, characterized in that the image display terminal has a sound reproducing means, a sound is added to the position-dependent information, and the sound can be reproduced by the image display terminal. The image display terminal described. 110. The image storage / display terminal according to claim 105, wherein the position-dependent information storage means is an individual memory that is detachable from the image display terminal. 111. The display effective time information is provided in the position-dependent information, and image display is not possible outside the display effective time.
The image accumulation display terminal according to item 05.