1-10. (canceled)
11. An apparatus for access control comprising:
a sensor assembly including an antenna and a magnetic door contact, the sensor assembly configured to mount in a frame assembly for a door such that said antenna and said magnetic door contact presents toward said door when said door is closed in said frame assembly, said sensor assembly configured to produce a first signal when an RFID proximity card is presented to said sensor assembly in a slot formed between said door and said frame assembly.
12. The apparatus of claim 11 further comprising, said antenna configured to couple with an RFID reader.
13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said sensor assembly includes said RFID reader.
14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the sensor assembly is a component of an access control system.
15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said magnetic door contact is configured as a disc portion coupled with a cylindrical portion.
16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein said cylindrical portion includes one or more annular ribs.
17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein said antenna is coupled with said disc portion.
18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein said one or more annular ribs are configured to grippingly engage said frame assembly.
19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said sensor assembly is configured to mount within a recess defined by said frame assembly.
20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein said sensor assembly is configured to cover the recess.
21. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein said sensor assembly is coupled with said access control system through six conductors.
22. A system for access control comprising:
a sensor assembly including an antenna and a magnetic door contact, the sensor assembly configured to mount in a frame assembly for a door, said sensor assembly configured to produce a first signal when an RFID proximity card is presented to said sensor assembly in a slot formed between said door and said frame assembly; and
a magnet assembly configured to mount in said door of said frame assembly such that said magnet assembly presents toward said sensor assembly when said door is closed in said frame assembly.
23. The system of claim 22 further comprising, said antenna configured to couple with an RFID reader.
24. The system of claim 23, wherein said sensor assembly includes said RFID reader.
25. The system of claim 22, wherein said magnetic door contact is configured as a disc portion coupled with a cylindrical portion.
26. The system of claim 25, wherein said cylindrical portion includes one or more annular ribs.
27. The system of claim 25, wherein said antenna is coupled with said disc portion.
28. The system of claim 26, wherein said one or more annular ribs are configured to grippingly engage said frame assembly.
29. The system of claim 22, wherein said sensor assembly is configured to mount within a recess defined by said frame assembly.
30. The system of claim 29, wherein said sensor assembly is configured to cover said recess.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An image display apparatus comprising:
a storage configured to store an object image, associated with information on a shooting direction, and a spherical image, associated with directional information;
a mask region extraction unit configured to extract a region that is to be masked in the object image;
a mask processing unit configured to generate the object image where the region to be masked in the object image is masked;
a positioning unit configured to adjust the directional information of the spherical image to be the shooting direction of the object image;
a mapping processing unit configured to position the spherical image and then configured to map the mask-processed object image and the spherical image onto a three-dimensional (3D) object space as a texture;
a three-dimensional (3D) image generator configured to generate a three-dimensional (3D) object image, when the 3D object image mapped by the mapping processing unit is viewed in a specified line of sight in such a manner so as to regard a shooting location of the object image as a viewpoint position; and
a display control unit configured to display the 3D object image on a screen.
2. An image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mask region extraction unit extracts a sky region in the object image, as the region to be masked, and
wherein the mask processing unit generates the object image where the sky region in the object image is masked.
3. An image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the mask region extraction unit determines a horizon position in the object image based on information on an elevation angle of a camera at the time of shooting, and
the mask region extraction unit extracts the sky region in a region above the horizon position.
4. An image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mapping processing unit generates an image onto the 3D object space, in which part of the spherical image is pasted onto the region to be masked in the object image, by mapping the mask-processed object image onto the 3D object space in a manner such that the mask-processed object image is superimposed onto the 3D object space where the spherical image is mapped.
5. An image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an object insertion unit configured to place an object, which is to be virtually inserted in the 3D object image, inside or outside the 3D object space,
wherein the mapping processing unit maps the object onto the 3D object space.
6. An image display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, when the object is placed outside the 3D object space, the mapping processing unit generates an image onto the 3D object space, in which the object is synthesized with the object image, by mapping the mask-processed object image onto the 3D object space in a manner such that the mask-processed object image is superimposed onto the 3D object space where the object is mapped.
7. An image display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, when the object is placed inside the 3D object space, the mapping processing unit generates an image onto the 3D object space, in which the object is synthesized with the object image, by mapping the object onto the 3D object space in a manner such that the object is superimposed onto the 3D object space where the mask-processed object image is mapped.
8. An image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the object image is a panoramic image and the 3D object space is a 3D panoramic space.
9. An image display apparatus comprising:
a storage configured to store an object image, associated with information on a shooting direction, and a virtual image, associated with directional information;
a mask region extraction unit configured to extract a region that is to be masked in the object image;
a mask processing unit configured to generate the object image where the region to be masked in the object image is masked;
a positioning unit configured to adjust the directional information of the virtual image to the shooting direction of the object image; and
a display control unit configured to position the virtual image and then configured to display on a screen an augmented-reality image where the virtual image is superimposed onto the mask-processed image.
10. An image display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the object image is a panoramic image.
11. An image generation method comprising:
reading out, by a processor, an object image and a spherical image to be displayed, from a storage device for storing the object image, associated with information on a shooting direction, and the spherical image, associated with directional information;
specifying, by a processor, a region that is to be masked in the object image;
adjusting, by a processor, the directional information of the spherical image to the shooting direction of the object image; and
rendering, by a processor, after positioning the spherical image in a manner such that the spherical image is superimposed onto the region to be masked in the object image.
12. A program embedded in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the program comprising:
a reading module operative to read out an object image and a spherical image to be displayed, from a storage device for storing the object image, associated with information on a shooting direction, and the spherical image, associated with directional information;
a mask region extraction module operative to extract a region that is to be masked in the object image;
a mask processing module operative to generate the object image where the region to be masked in the object image is masked;
a positioning module operative to adjust the directional information of the spherical image to the shooting direction of the object image;
a positioning module operative to position the
a mapping processing module operative to position the spherical image and then operative to map the mask-processed object image and the spherical image onto a three-dimensional (3D) object space as a texture; and
a 3D image generation module operative to generate a three-dimensional (3D) object image, when the three-dimensional object image mapped by the mapping processing module is viewed in a specified line of sight in such a manner so as to regard a shooting location of the object image as a viewpoint position.
13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a program, executable by a computer, according to claim 12.