Patent ID: 8531514

Claim:
An image providing system comprising: a terminal which has a visual axis by using which a user points a target object to be identified from a plurality of objects and is configured to identify said target object pointed by said visual axis from said plurality of objects; an information generating server configured to acquire an internal image as an image of an inside of said target object or an external image as an image of external surroundings, which is taken from said target object, and generate a display image as an image to be outputted by said terminal based on said internal image or said external image, wherein said external surroundings can not be seen from said user with eyes and said display image is an image to be seen along a direction of the terminal which is a direction of said visual axis or a direction close to said direction of said visual axis; and a positional information server configured to store object positional information as three-dimensional positional information of each of said plurality of objects and retrieval information as information for accessing to information generating server corresponding to said target object such that said object positional information and said retrieval information are respectively correlated to said each object, wherein said terminal includes: a position sensor configured to detect terminal positional information indicating a position of said terminal, a direction sensor configured to detect terminal directional information indicating said direction of said terminal, a user image acquisition camera for acquiring an image of a user, an identifying unit configured to detect a face and both eyes from an image of a face of a user taken by said user image acquisition camera, set a user position indicating a position of said user at a center point between said both eyes based on said image of said face and said terminal positional information, and identify said target object based on said user position, said terminal positional information and said object positional information, an information acquiring unit configured to access said information generating server corresponding to said target object based on said retrieval information, and acquire said display image of said target object, and an output unit configured to display said display image.