Patent ID: 8887204

Claim:
A video distribution system that distributes a digitally captured video, the video distribution system comprising an imaging device, a server device, and a playback terminal, the imaging device comprising: an imager that captures an omnidirectional video using a wide-angle lens; and a controller that transmits a group of frame data constituting the video captured by the imager to the server device, the server device comprising: a calculator that divides an image represented by each frame data of the group of frame data from the imaging device into a plurality of regions, converts an image of each region into a normal image, and obtains a group of partial data classified by region; a storage unit that accumulates the group of frame data from the imaging device and accumulates the group of partial data classified by region; and a controller that selects a group of frame data of a video requested from the terminal device and a group of partial data for a region requested from the terminal device in relation to the video from the storage unit and transmits them to the terminal device, and the terminal device comprising: a display instrument that plays back a video; an attitude sensor that detects a rotation angle around a first axis and a rotation angle around a second axis, the first axis extending in a vertical direction of a surface of the display instrument, the second axis extending in a horizontal direction of the surface of the display instrument; and a controller that calculates a region designated by a user based on the rotation angle around the first axis and the rotation angle around the second axis, the controller transmitting, to the server device, identification information of a video to be played back and identification information of the calculated region.