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Taro Maeda

Susumu Tachi

Yutaka Kunita

Masahiko Inami

According to the method and apparatus, light beams directed toward virtual visual points are detected from among light beams emitted from or reflected on the surface of an object. The detection is effected by an image pickup device in a plurality of positions lying on a virtual closed surface with which the object is enclosed. The detected light beams are converted into image pickup signals, which are delivered to a display device adapted to display an image toward a visual point of an observer standing or sitting in a place different from a place where any of the virtual visual points is disposed. The image is displayed in such a manner as if light beams were emitted toward the visual point of the observer from various points on the surface of a virtual object disposed in a virtual position corresponding to the relative positions of the real object and any of the virtual visual points. The invention is particularly adapted for enabling persons present in different localities to feel as if they met together in a room.

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Tokyo-to, Japan

Taro Maeda