Patent ID: 9491416
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G16H,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A transmission apparatus comprising: a processor; and memory communicatively coupled to the processor for storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform operations comprising: receive an image captured by an image capturing unit; perform a privacy mask process to the captured image; transmit a privacy mask processed image to a privileged client apparatus and a non-privileged client apparatus, and in response to receiving a request from the privileged client apparatus to generate a panoramic image at the privileged client apparatus: capturing by the image capturing unit, a plurality of images by changing an image capturing direction of the image capturing unit; transmitting the plurality of images to the privileged client apparatus without transmitting the plurality of captured images to the non-privileged client apparatus; generating a panoramic image at the privileged client using the plurality of images; receiving, the panoramic image from the privileged client apparatus; and transmitting a privacy mask processed image from the panoramic image to the non-privileged client apparatus.