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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Fukuyasu, Kanagawa, JP;
Kendai Furukawa, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to suppress deterioration of picture quality of an image within a viewing range of a viewer. An image processing apparatus includes an image processing section that performs, based on priorities between a plurality of encoded streams obtained by encoding a plurality of projection images that are obtained by projecting an omnidirectional image to a plurality of faces or a plurality of viewpoint images from different viewpoints, decoding of the encoded streams and generation or selection of an image to be used for generation of a display image, and a drawing section that generates the display image based on the generated or selected image.