Patent ID: 8305424

Claim:
An image display system comprising: an image transmission apparatus; and an image display apparatus, the image transmission apparatus being connected to the image display apparatus via a network, the image transmission apparatus including a plurality of camera sections adapted to output image data corresponding to respective n divided images obtained by dividing a panorama image into n pieces, a plurality of image data processing sections adapted to carry out a processing on the image data output from the respective camera sections to generate m pieces of first compressed image data corresponding, respectively, to m of the n divided images by compression-encoding image data at a first resolution and generate l pieces of second compressed image data corresponding, respectively, to l of the n divided images by compression-encoding image data at a second resolution which is lower than the first resolution, wherein the sum of l and m is equal to at least n, and wherein among the m pieces of the first compressed image data and the l pieces of the second compressed image data is included at least one piece of compressed image data corresponding to each of the n divided images, and a data transmission section adapted to transmit the m pieces of the first compressed image data and the l pieces of the second compressed image data generated in the respective image data processing sections to the image display apparatus, the image display apparatus including a data reception section adapted to receive the m pieces of the first compressed image data and the l pieces of the second compressed image data transmitted from the image transmission apparatus, a first image data generation section adapted to generate panorama image data for displaying the panorama image by using decoded data of plural pieces of the l pieces of the second compressed image data received in the data reception section, a view angle determination section adapted to determine a high resolution view angle on the panorama image, a second image data generation section adapted to generate high resolution image data for displaying a high resolution image by using, among the m pieces of the first compressed image data received in the data reception section, decoded data of the piece of the first compressed image data of the divided images corresponding to the high resolution view angle determined in the view angle determination section, and a display section adapted to display the panorama image based on the panorama image data generated in the first image data generation section and the high resolution image based on the high resolution image data generated in the second image data generation section on a display.