Patent ID: 6625812
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A system for preserving and communicating live views of a remote physical location over a computer network comprisingan image server, an image acquisition system operably connected to the image server, wherein said image acquisition system captures and transmits images of selected regions in a remote physical location in response to control signals transmitted by the image server; wherein the image server is operative to transmit control signals to the image acquisition system in response to quests for images of selected regions in the remote physical location; wherein the image server, in response to a view card request from a first user designating a selected region of the remote physical location, is further operative to generate and transmit a view card to a recipient user, wherein the view card includes a link operative to direct the image acquisition system to capture and transmit a new live image of the selected region designated in the view card request.