Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
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Application No.: US16073931Application Date: 2016-11-21
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Publication No.: US10762688B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Masami Ogata
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Chip Law Group
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@3586e1ba
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/084408 WO 20161121
- International Announcement: WO2017/141511 WO 20170824
- Main IPC: H04N7/15
- IPC: H04N7/15 ; H04N7/14 ; G06T15/20 ; G06T19/20 ; G06T19/00

Abstract:
Achieving a configuration that reduces the artificiality to give a strange feeling about the viewpoint of the user displayed on the display unit appearing different from the actual viewpoint. Photographed images from a plurality of different viewpoints are input to generate a plurality of virtual viewpoint images, and then, the plurality of virtual viewpoint images is combined to generate a combined image to be output on a display unit. The virtual viewpoint image generation unit generates a plurality of user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images each corresponding to each of viewpoints of each of a plurality of viewing users viewing the display unit, while the image combining unit extracts a portion from each of the plurality of user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images in accordance with a relative position between the viewing user and the display unit, and combines the extracted image to generate a combined image. The combined image is generated by extracting a display region image located at a front position of the viewing user at the viewpoint corresponding to the virtual viewpoint image from among the user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images corresponding to individual viewing users.
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