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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2021
Keiichi Kawaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Keiichi Kawaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes circuitry configured to: select, from at least two images captured in different image-capturing directions and with image-capturing ranges overlapping with each other, an image to be at foreground as viewed from a virtual camera based on an orientation or an angle of view of the virtual camera and the image-capturing directions of the at least two images; map the at least two images onto a three-dimensional object to generate a virtual image, in which the at least two images overlap with each other, having a wider angle of view than the at least two images; and perform perspective projection on the virtual image using the virtual camera, to generate a plane image, based on the selected image to be at the foreground, as a display image.