MULTIPLE VIEW POINT OPTIONAL SELECTION TYPE VIDEO VIEWING SYSTEM, STREAM DATA COMBINING DEVICE AND COMBINED STREAM DATA DISTRIBUTION SERVER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video effect as if the view point of a viewer himself/ herself is moved while sufficiently increasing expressiveness and presence.;SOLUTION: One piece of combined stream data ΣF is generated by combining stream data F₁-F_n photographed by a plurality of television cameras 2₁-2_n, and the combined stream data ΣF are distributed through a network 5 corresponding to a request from viewer terminals 6₁-6_m. By arranging a plurality of the television cameras in a soccer ground for instance, and setting the positions of the respective television cameras to optimum positions to enable the general observation and local observation of a soccer game, the video effect as if the viewer himself/herself moves the view point in the soccer ground is obtained on the viewer terminal.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO