Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image-capturing apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 图像捕获设备
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Application No.: US13439138Application Date: 2012-04-04
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Publication No.: US09088772B2Publication Date: 2015-07-21
- Inventor: Tatsuro Koizumi
- Applicant: Tatsuro Koizumi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2011-089445 20110413
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N13/00 ; G06T7/00 ; H04N13/02

Abstract:
In a motion picture capturing system for generating a virtual viewpoint image by a plurality of cameras, if image-capturing is performed with timing being shifted to improve frame rate performance, estimation accuracy is deteriorated due to an error in corresponding point detection between images or the presence of a moving subject. The image-capturing timing is controlled such that two or more of a plurality of image-capturing units perform simultaneous image-capturing, and motion of the whole of an image-capturing apparatus is estimated from a plurality of images captured by the simultaneous image-capturing. The virtual viewpoint image is synthesized from the images captured by the simultaneous image-capturing by the plurality of image-capturing units and the estimated motion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120262594A1 IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-10-18
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