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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2021
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, London, GB;
Andrew James Bigos, London, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of generating an image of a scene from a target viewpoint is provided. The method comprises capturing a plurality of multi-plane images of a virtual scene, and determining for each multi-plane image, whether a frontmost clipping plane pair defined for that multi-plane image intersects a virtual object in the virtual scene. Responsive to a positive determination for a respective clipping plane pair, the corresponding image data in the corresponding image plane is identified and assigned an identifier, thus generating a modified version of the corresponding multi-plane image. Camera information is obtained for the one or more virtual cameras that captured the multi-plane images and the target virtual camera. An output image is then generated by combining at least one of the modified multi-plane images with another of the multi-plane images in accordance with the obtained camera information. A corresponding system is also provided.