Patent ID: 7385624

Claim:
A remote image display method, comprising: image sensing a panoramic object by a remote image sensing device; sending a video signal of a part of said image-sensed panoramic object via an image capturing device to an image display portion at a place different from said remote image sensing device; playing back and displaying said received video signal by said image display portion as an image of a part of said panoramic object; image sensing surroundings by a camera-equipped portable terminal at a position where a display on said image display portion can be seen, and sending a surrounding video signal to said image capturing device; obtaining variation information about surrounding image by a variation detecting portion in said image capturing devices, based on a previous surrounding video signal and a current surrounding video signal received from said camera-equipped portable terminal; obtaining from said remote image sensing device a video signal of a part of said panoramic object changed corresponding to a change of said surrounding image based on said variation information; and sending said obtained video signal to said image display portion.