Video distribution system, and video distribution method

1. A video distribution system that distributes a digitally captured video, the video distribution system comprising an imaging device, a server device, and a playback terminal,

the imaging device comprising:

an imager that captures an omnidirectional video using a wide-angle lens; and

a controller that transmits a group of frame data constituting the video captured by the imager to the server device,

the server device comprising:

a calculator that divides an image represented by each frame data of the group of frame data from the imaging device into a plurality of regions, converts an image of each region into a normal image, and obtains a group of partial data classified by region;

a storage unit that accumulates the group of frame data from the imaging device and accumulates the group of partial data classified by region; and

a controller that selects a group of frame data of a video requested from the terminal device and a group of partial data for a region requested from the terminal device in relation to the video from the storage unit and transmits them to the terminal device, and

the terminal device comprising:

a display instrument that plays back a video;

an attitude sensor that detects a rotation angle around a first axis and a rotation angle around a second axis, the first axis extending in a vertical direction of a surface of the display instrument, the second axis extending in a horizontal direction of the surface of the display instrument; and

a controller that calculates a region designated by a user based on the rotation angle around the first axis and the rotation angle around the second axis, the controller transmitting, to the server device, identification information of a video to be played back and identification information of the calculated region.

2. A video distribution method for distributing a digitally captured video, the method comprising:

accumulating, in a server device, a group of frame data constituting an omnidirectional video captured using a wide-angle lens;

dividing an image represented by each frame data of the group of frame data into a plurality of regions, converting an image of each region into a normal image, and obtaining a group of partial data classified by region in the server device;

accumulating the group of partial data classified by region in the server device;

transmitting identification information of a video to be played back by a terminal device to the server device;

transmitting a group of frame data of the video corresponding to the identification information from the server device to the terminal device;

playing back the video by the terminal device using the group of frame data transmitted from the server device;

detecting a rotation angle around a first axis and a rotation angle around a second axis by an attitude sensor of the terminal device, the first axis extending in a vertical direction of a surface of a display instrument of the terminal device, the second axis extending in a horizontal direction of the surface of the display instrument;

calculating a region designated by a user based on the rotation angle around the first axis and the rotation-angle around the second axis;

transmitting, to the server device, identification information of the calculated region;

transmitting a group of partial data corresponding to the identification information of the calculated region from the server device to the terminal device; and

playing back a video by the terminal device using the group of partial data transmitted from the server device.