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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Nishiyama, Tama, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to estimate the shape of an object easily and with a high accuracy. The present invention is a generation apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of image data obtained by capturing an object from different directions by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses arranged at different positions, respectively; a first derivation unit configured to derive reliability for each of the image capturing apparatuses based on spatial resolution in the image data; and a generation unit configured to generate three-dimensional shape data representing the shape of the object based on the image data and the reliability.