Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtual image generating apparatus, virtual image generating method, and recording medium storing virtual image generating program
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Application No.: US15723935Application Date: 2017-10-03
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Publication No.: US10027931B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Takako Hanai , Osamu Nonaka
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
- Priority: JP2008-25429 20080205; JP2008-35219 20080215
- Main IPC: H04N7/18
- IPC: H04N7/18 ; G06T11/60 ; G06T3/00 ; G06T19/00 ; H04N21/00 ; G06F17/30 ; G06T15/20 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
An image generation apparatus, system, and method that include a position detector that acquires photography position information, a communicator that acquires at least one surrounding map image viewable from the photography position when a captured image is captured, and an image generator that generates at least one virtual image of a selected avatar image and the at least one surrounding map image.
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