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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuaki Izumi, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a generation apparatus, a generation method, a reproduction apparatus, and a reproduction method by which a display image generated by use of an omnidirectional image is made approximately uniform in image quality in all visual line directions. A down-conversion part down-converts an omnidirectional image. A perspective projection part generates multiple images by projecting on multiple two-dimensional planes the omnidirectional image mapped onto a 3D model. This disclosure may be applied, for example, to generation apparatuses that generate an omnidirectional image from captured images in six directions so as to generate low- and high-resolution streams of the omnidirectional image.