Patent ID: 9369675
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G08G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image display terminal comprising: means for receiving picked images of surroundings and image pickup information associated with each of the picked images from an image server, the image server acquiring each picked image of the surroundings and each of the image pickup information from each of a plurality of vehicles, each picked image of the surroundings being picked up with a camera mounted in each of the vehicles, each vehicle including a speed sensor to provide running speed information indicating a running speed of each vehicle during running; and means for controlling a display device to display the received picked images, wherein: the image pickup information includes (i) information about an image pickup point at which the picked image was picked up in each vehicle and (ii) running speed information of each vehicle at the image pickup point, and upon receiving an instruction to advance an image in a certain direction, the controlling means searches for first picked images picked up in a search region that is within a predetermined direction range including the certain direction and in which a distance from the image pickup point at which the picked image presently displayed on the display device was picked up is within a predetermined range, and selects a second picked image to be displayed next on the display device from among the first picked images picked up in the search region in accordance with a predetermined selection rule, wherein: the selection rule selects preferentially, as the second picked image among the first picked images picked up in the search region, a picked image associated with the running speed information indicating the running speed that is slowest in the search region.