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US 10,467,483 · App. 15/121,966 · Granted Nov 5, 2019

Image acquiring system, terminal, image acquiring method, and image acquiring program

Inventor: Takahiro Kamada (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 10,467,483
App. No.
15/121,966
Granted
Nov 5, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image acquiring system ( 100 ) includes an image acquiring apparatus ( 101 ) and a terminal ( 111 ). The image acquiring apparatus ( 101 ) acquires an image recorded by the terminal ( 111 ) and position information indicating a position at which the image is recorded, determines the state of a road included in the image based on the image, and associates and stores the state of the road and the position information. If the terminal ( 111 ) transmits to the image acquiring apparatus ( 101 ), a request for information concerning the state of a given road, the image acquiring apparatus ( 101 ) transmits the determined state of the road and the position information to the terminal ( 111 ).

Claims (37)

1. An image acquiring apparatus configured to communicate with a terminal connected to a camera, the image acquiring apparatus comprising:

a communications device; and

one or more processors in operational communication with at least the communications device, the one or more processors configured to:

acquire a first image;

determine a state of a road included in the first image based on the first image; and

transmit to the terminal an acquisition request for a second image of the road, where the state of the road has been determined to have a problem in a road surface condition, and where the second image is newly obtained by the camera in response to the acquisition request.

2. The image acquiring apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to acquire the first image and the second image from one or more moving terminals.

3. The image acquiring apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to acquire, from the one or more moving objects, position information with the first image indicating a position at which the first image is recorded.

4. The image acquiring apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

associate the state of the road and the position information,

store, in a storage, the state of the road and the position information, and

transmit the state of the road and the position information.

5. A terminal configured to communicate with an image acquiring apparatus, the terminal being connected to a camera configured to record a first image, the terminal comprising:

a display;

a communications device; and

one or more processors in communication with the display and the communications device, said one or more processors configured to

transmit the first image and a position information,

receive information concerning a state of a road,

receive from the image acquiring apparatus an acquisition request for a second image of the road where the state of the road has been determined to have a problem in a road surface condition, and where the second image being is obtained by the camera in response to the acquisition request, and

display, on the display, the received information concerning the state of the givcn road.

6. The terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to transmit the position information, where the position information indicates a position at which the first image is recorded.

7. The terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to transmit a request for information concerning the state of the road.

8. An image acquiring system, comprising:

an image acquiring apparatus; and

a terminal,

wherein the image acquiring apparatus comprises one or more first processors, the one or more first processors configured to

acquire a first image,

determine a state of a road included in the first image based on the first image, and

transmit to the terminal an acquisition request for a second image of the road where the state of the road has been determined to have a problem in a road surface condition, and where the second image is newly obtained by a camera in response to the acquisition request,

wherein the terminal is connected to the camera configured to record the first image, and

wherein the terminal comprises one or more second processors, the one or more second processors configured to

transmit the first image and a position information, and

receive from the image acquiring apparatus the acquisition request.

9. The image acquiring system according to claim 8 ,

wherein the one or more processors of the terminal are further configured to receive information concerning the state of the road, and

wherein the terminal further comprises

a display that displays the received information concerning the state of the road.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 29, 2016
From: KAMADA, TAKAHIRO
To: PIONEER CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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