Patent ID: 8279295

Claim:
An image delivery apparatus, comprising: a camera unit capable of changing a shooting condition specified by a shooting direction and/or an angle of view; a camera control unit that causes the camera unit to shoot image shots corresponding to a plurality of shooting conditions in a predetermined period according to a shooting pattern containing the plurality of mutually different shooting conditions and having the predetermined period; an image storage unit that stores data of image shots shot corresponding to the plurality of shooting conditions and updated in the predetermined period; an operation information receiving unit that receives operation information indicating any shooting condition contained in the shooting pattern from one image reproducing apparatus or more; an image delivery unit that delivers data of image shots corresponding to the shooting condition indicated by the operation information received from each of the image reproducing apparatuses and updated in the predetermined period to each of the image reproducing apparatuses; and a shooting pattern change unit that predicts the operation information that could be received from the image reproducing apparatuses based on the operation information received from the image reproducing apparatuses and changes the shooting pattern so that the shooting condition indicated by the predicted operation information is included.