US 12,219,293 B2
Image data collecting apparatus, method, and program
Jun Shioda, Musashino (JP); Masaru Takagi, Musashino (JP); Kazuya Matsuo, Musashino (JP); Lidwina Ayu Andarini, Musashino (JP); Ryota Nakada, Musashino (JP); Koya Mori, Musashino (JP); and Hiroyuki Tanaka, Musashino (JP)
Assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/633,335
Filed by NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/031514
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/024490, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0377283 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 7/181 (2013.01) [G06T 7/20 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); G06T 2207/30261 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image data collecting apparatus comprising:
an acquisition unit that acquires position information of a plurality of mobile bodies on which a photographing device is mounted, and
a selecting unit that acquires, for each mobile body, the position information acquired for the plurality of mobile bodies, information indicating photographing ranges of the photographing devices mounted on the plurality of mobile bodies, and position information of a predetermined object, and selects one mobile body on which a photographing device that outputs collection target image data is mounted from the plurality of mobile bodies on the basis of (a) the position information of the mobile bodies, (b) the information indicating photographing ranges of the photographic devices mounted on the plurality of mobile bodies, and (c) the position information of the predetermined object;
a transmitting unit that transmits a collection instruction for image data which is a photographing result of the photographing device mounted on the mobile body to the selected mobile body; and
a receiving unit that receives the image data transmitted from the mobile body having received the collection instruction.