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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2015
Takuya Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Rieko Ishihara, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Kawata, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Rieko Ishihara, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Kawata, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes an imaging unit for capturing a subject image; a setting unit setting initial posture of the imaging unit; a detector pirate for detecting posture information indicating a change in posture from the initial posture of the imaging unit; a corrector for correcting a posture of a preset virtual object arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space depending on the posture information; a projector for generating, based on a conversion function for projecting the virtual object on a device coordinate in a display screen of the captured image, an object image on the device coordinate, of the virtual object whose posture is corrected; a synthesizer for generating a synthetic image of the object and the captured images; a display for displaying the synthetic image; an image recording unit for recording the captured image; and a posture recording unit for recording the posture information in synchronization with the captured image.