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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2020
Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ian Henry Bickerstaff, London, GB;

Andrew Damian Hosfield, London, GB;

Nicola Orrù, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/20 (2011.01); H04N 13/271 (2018.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); H04N 13/349 (2018.01); H04N 13/332 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/20 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06T 7/75 (2017.01); H04N 13/271 (2018.05); H04N 13/332 (2018.05); H04N 13/349 (2018.05); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of generating an image of a subject in a scene includes obtaining a first image and a second image of a subject in a scene, each image corresponding to a different respective viewpoint of the subject, each image being captured by a different respective camera, where at least some of the subject is occluded in the first image and not the second image by virtue of the different viewpoints, obtaining camera pose data indicating a pose of a camera for each image, re-projecting, based on the difference in camera poses associated with each image, at least a portion of the second image to correspond to the viewpoint from which the first image was captured, and combining the re-projected portion of the second image with at least some of the first image so as to generate a composite image of the subject from the viewpoint of the first image, the re-projected portion of the second image providing image data for at least some of the occluded part or parts of the subject in the first image.


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