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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Goh Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing device and an image processing method in which a home server that reproduces a 3-dimensional image merely by transmitting a viewing range based on a viewing position and a visual line direction and requesting texture images. The texture images are necessary to generate a 3-dimensional image from a request content server. A content server that groups a plurality of multi-camera units for each of cameras included in the multi-camera unit, sets a priority of the cameras for each group on the basis of an evaluation value of disposition of the cameras in each group, and transmits image data of a surface of the selected cameras in accordance with the set priority and the group selected in accordance with a visual field range of a user to a home server.