| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new technology for providing an image that a user desires to view, by retrieving the image among large amounts of moving images and still images photographed at a specific location. SOLUTION: When images photographed at the specific place are inputted and stored in a storing means, a photographing position and a photographing angle of the inputted images are deduced, by collating the inputted images with an environmental model of the specific place, and information of the estimated photographing position and the estimated photographing angles are recorded, while being associated with the images stored in the storing means. When there is a request from a user for browsing an image that designates the position of the visual point and the angle of a visual line, images which are seen from the position of the visual point and the angle of the visual line designated by the user are retrieved, by retrieving the photographing positions and the photographic angles stored in the storing means; an image of an environmental model of a particular place which is seen from the position of the visual point and the angle of the visual line designated by the user is displayed on a display; and a list of summary images showing a summary of the retrieved images is displayed on the image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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