Patent ID: 7133065

Claim:
A system for providing video of scenic sites of interest, said system comprising: a plurality of cameras adapted to produce video signals corresponding to video of scenic sites of interest, a server communicatively coupled to the plurality of cameras and configured to receive, store and transmit video data corresponding to the video signals, time-stamp the received video data, and receive and process control commands, a controller communicatively coupled to the server and configured to receive video data from the server and produce video output signals, said controller including a display device configured to display video corresponding to the video output signals, said controller further including a viewer input device configured to produce control commands, said control commands including a command to select a site of interest and a command from the group consisting of a command to synchronize video from the selected site of interest, a command to provide a dawn, dusk, day or night view of the site of interest, a command to cycle through at least two of dawn, dusk, day and night views of the site of interest, a command to provide a view of the site of interest at determined stage of the lunar cycle, a command to provide a view of the site of interest during a determined meteorological event, and a command to provide random views of the site of interest, said random views including one or more views from the group consisting of a synchronized view, a dawn, dusk, day or night view, a view of the site of interest at determined stage of the lunar cycle, and a view of the site of interest during a determined meteorological event.