US 12,143,749 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
Hidetoshi Kikuchi, Tokyo (JP); Keiko Tsuchiya, Tokyo (JP); and Asami Tomaru, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Hidetoshi Kikuchi, Tokyo (JP); Keiko Tsuchiya, Tokyo (JP); and Asami Tomaru, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/931,599.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-151223 (JP), filed on Sep. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0079461 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 7/14 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 7/141 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0643 (2013.01); H04N 2007/145 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus communicable with a first user terminal operated by a first user and a second user terminal operated by a second user, the information processing apparatus comprising circuitry configured to:
receive, from the first user terminal, a selection of a first image capturing device among multiple image capturing devices installed in multiple store areas respectively;
generate distribution data according to which the first user terminal displays a first captured image and a second captured image, the first captured image being an image captured by the selected first image capturing device in a first photographing direction selected by the first user, the second captured image being an image captured by a second image capturing device of the second user in a second photographing direction; and
transmit the generated distribution data to the first user terminal,
wherein the distribution data generated by the circuitry is data for a display screen of the first user terminal to include a first display area displaying the first captured image captured by the first image capturing device and a second display area displaying the second captured image captured by the second image capturing device worn by the second user or the second image capturing device built in the second user terminal operated by the second user, and
wherein the circuitry is further configured to add the second captured image to the display screen of the first user terminal on which the first captured image is being displayed, according to an input operation by the first user, so that the first captured image and the second captured image are displayed next to each other on the display screen.